Uncovered twins

Bubble screen is our play of choice in that situation. I even think if they cover both players but give at least a five yard or greater cushion bubble screen works well. Our audible isn't even called unless the play call would interfer with the QB's throw. Example: The only people in our offense that need to know we are throwing the bubble are the two receivers and QB. We teach them to immediately expect the bubble if one of the two isn't covered. The QB will only make a verbal audible if we were running something quick inside or had the lineman pulling.

We teach receivers to have their inside foot forward. At the snap outside receiver attacks closest outside defender ( Whose job on the defense is it to stop the play). Inside receiver takes a step backward pushing off with the inside foot. They then take three steps toward the sideline. Head is always looking inside. QB takes snap and immediately throws slightly infront of the outside shoulder of the inside WR.

I know this is in the Shotgun board but we like to go under center and run midline. If we stay in gun we try to hit inside traps. A lot of it depends on the rest of the Defense. The noncommital linebacker hasn't hurt us. We like to force them to commit by seeing what else is taking place on the field. We have seen teams cheat the safeties over the top and do weird stuff with their Dline. Bottom line for us is that we will throw the bubble unless they press us.

We had a huge upset win this season against our conference rival. They came in pounding the ball for over 500 yards a game and hadn't given up anything. They stayed in a 5-3 cover 3 against us the entire game. The OLB never came out and covered our slot so we went the distance of the field running only bubble screens. After halftime their backers cheated out to no man's land. They still couldn't stop the bubble and we were also able to bring our slot in motion and hit slants and speed outs. By cheating the backers out it also let us run the ball. Again they never covered the twins they just cheated out. If they stay compressed we also like post/curl combinations and post/post-corner.

You might try this as we have had a lot of success doing it: Call two plays in the huddle such as off-tacklet lead and bubble (From I twins left, we call it like this 25 lead/bubble). Our QB comes to the line and looks at the OLB. If the OLB is in to help with the off-tackle play or our QB feels like we have leverage on the OLB he will simply make a 2,2 call. This means we are calling the second play called in the huddle. If he sees the OLB out helping take away bubble then he makes a 1,1 call. We have found that teaming a few plays together like this is a good way for us to take advantage of the "D".

Once your bubble is set up, how often do you throw the fade to your "stalk block"? Do you audible it, recognize it, call it? Other complimentary plays?

Are you running the bubble from a trips look? Is your fake bubble to #3 if you're running the slant to 2 and post to 1? Thanks!

Coach,

So you basically do not block the cb, you just hope the bubble will beat him 1 on 1 correct?

Do you change it up ever to actually have the #1 wr block that cb?

We play 10 games a year. We see 2 4-3 Cover 2's, 1 5-3 Cover 3, and 7 4-4 Cover 3.

This past year we threw the ball better than any ever has in the conference. As you can see most of our concepts are cover 3 beaters. We ended up seeing press man with 2 deep (and still struggled to run the ball). In trips we always want to block down with the 2 outside receivers and would let the insde receiver try and beat the outside deep defender 1 on 1. We threw bubble over 60 times for he season and never beat that corner, but picked up around 350 yards. Threw on3 pick (#1 wiffed on the flat defender, returned for a TD).

When we threw bubble to the outside receiver, we called it Zip, #2 and #3 blocked out. Playsie OT wheeled DE and attacked OLB. Usually had outside receiver 1 on 1 with a screaming ILB or the FS.

The Trips Bubble and Zip are catcah and throw by the QB (1 step). Spread, slant bubble is catch bounce and throw (2 step), just long enough to read that slant. Remember we were in Gun 90% of the time.

We block the corner when we run bubble. We run our bubble differently than everyone else in our league. Our Receivers not getting the ball block the man over them and the person getting the ball races the defender to the outside. We will call a post/slant if the defense is running hard to the bubble. In our offense the hitch is not a given unless we get a press on both receivers. Teams haven't done that to us in a while because we have had a good running game that they stay inside to defend.

I use to have the hitch be an automatic read but we gave up too many INTs for TDs. As the LB recovers he has a great lane to catch the ball and run in. In my experience we have had a tough time with the hitch to the inside receiver. Most of the time people put inside leverage on him so we will do a speed out or wheel with him. The speed out/slant is the audible we teach our QB to use. If the bubble was called.