Dart Play

What is the advantage of this play? Why is it good? Why not run speed option. Just curious. D

I'm not sure if this helps, but I'll throw in my two cents as well. The most common play associated with the term "Dart" in spread offenses is the tackle Iso. Against a split look (5 and 3 tech.'s strong, 5 and 1 tech.'s weak, and two 30 backers) the play would be run at the 1 tech. with the key components of the play being the PSG and C combo'ing the 1 tech. to the BSLB, the PST blocking the 5 tech. out, and the BST pulling and leading through the hole on the PSLB. The BSDE (5 tech.) is left unblocked and read by the QB just as on the zone read. Hopefully you'll be able to draw this up and better see how it works. It's a helluva' play. You can also switch things up by calling the Q-Dart with the QB and RB switching responsibilities so to speak. Now the back would block the backside DE and the QB would fake to him, carrying the ball behind the wrapping tackle's block. I hope this makes sense. If not I'll draw the play up for you and put it on my blog.

Agree with Air Austin and Tiger One. It originally was set up as the counter to the zone. We first installed it so that either the back would counter to it or the QB would keep it (tagged with dart-me). Later, because we had a very good running QB, we just dropped the the rb countering to it and had the QB keep whenever we called dart. We have had some trouble with the back getting caught flat footed in the backfield on his cut and the QB keep is always smooth (as long as he is patient with the mesh). If our QB doesn't run well, then I do go back to making the distinction between who carries the ball. We play the zone, dart and trap off each other depending on the front since some teams will align based on the position of the RB. It's part of the inside run game. We also let the QB audible between the those three plays if needed (we always allow the QB to choose right or left with all our plays).