Advice versus 4-4

Are you in the split backs or I? We run the split backs and we love a 4-4, even though that is what we run ourselves. Run ISV, ISV, ISV, and then to mix it up run midline. get in twins or three wide and see what the olb does. if he stays in run bubble to inside reciever. if he moves out run ISV. there are other plays that work really well but the ISV is awesome against this defense. OSV works too but this ISV is so much quicker and easier for the QB. know if they walk the OLB's up we have found that you can still run ISV, but OSV will really screw em.

another thing, get in twins and TE to same side and see how they adjust.

the te takes the shortest distance to the olb, which is an arc release most of the time.

MG@CI,

At one point I coached at a school where we ran I-option. We had success against the 4-4. One problem the 4-4 can give the ISV is a "pinch" stunt. The DE pinches hard off the T or into the B-gap to the dive back; the ILB scrapes over the top for the QB; OLB has the pitch. It's a good stunt to a SE side. Therefore, we ran ISV to the TE side. The TE would outside release and was responsible for the scraping LB. The defense's answer was to line up the FS head up the TE at 10 yards...he ran inside out on the QB...unblocked if the TE picked up the scraping LB. Our answer to that was to run Pro into the boundary...the FS was reluctant to cross the hashmark into the short side. Our TE was able to wall the scraping ILB, dive key was the DE, pitch key was the OLB (who usually has the pitchback).

To the SE side against this stunt, we would loop the PST around the pinching DE to the scraping ILB.

One great thing about the I-option is that there are always many ways to shift/motion into the formation you want to end up in. This type of movement can affect option responsibilities, coverages, run support. It can limit blitzes, coverages and option stunts. The combination of multiple shifts, motions, formations and options can force the defense to simplify what they do.

kc

Did you run your new look offense this week and how did you fare??