Inside and Outside veer responsibities in the 4-2/4-4

I believe most guys will tell you their basic assignments against the option. The most commonly used assignments to my knowledge are DT has dive, DE has QB and force player has pitch.

Coach, we have run the 44 twenty years. We play 2 option teams a year. Flexbone and option teams are good at outmanning you to the TE side in the 44. We believe that you have to have calls to mix up the responsibilities as well as have different looks that do the same thing. We also stem a ton. We believe that having a 16-18 y/o kids make decisions in a split second helps our cause. We have stopped inside veer and midline however if we give the same look too many times, outside veer with the Qb keeping it hurt us a few times. Option coaches will always have 2 or 3 ways to block your perimeter men. That is why we stem and have switch calls. We have a few other things we do too. Hope this help. Coach Nick

I don't believe and have never believed you can assign a player to dive,QB,and pitch until the play develops.How can you tell the DE he has QB when the dive back dives in his face?How can you tell the DE he has dive when the dive back dives over the center?How can the DT play dive when he will be double teamed?
We like to read the offense and adjust.Don't get me wrong,switching responsibilities are great but it is more of switching gaps than QB,FB,or pitch.Lets keep this discussion going.

George - what we did vs. Ft. Defiance your senior year (State Semi-Finals) wasn't bad! They ran the VEER & we held them to 6 points (remember Travis missing the tackle?).

Personally, I don't think preparing for the Inside & Outside VEER is hard - EXCEPT if they use TWO TIGHT ENDS & RUN THE OUTSIDE VEER WEAK (AWAY FROM THE FLANKER). That always "worried us"!

PS: Gabe still has those game tapes (I don't)!