To much??

Personally I think it is too much. Direct a post to "MBKCOACH" who is on this site.

He has experience in both WING-T AND ZONE stuff. He won the 2004 Virginia 5A State Championship. He can tell you the "pros & cons" of mixing Wing-T & Zone!

To answer your option question.

The wing t has a lot of good option plays. I would use it off of the crossblock.

In the wing T you either got to be able to throw the ball or run the option when they want to stop the run.

We perfer to throw the ball.

Belly

The wing t belly play is probably my favorite play. I do not cross block it though.

I am in more of a run & shoot look but look to run that play 12-15 times a game. We block it a few different ways. With the NT being "0" if he is there, our G's and T's will block 1 & 2 respectively on the LOS. We will also just base the play, too. The near slot will always lead up on the PSLB. Against a 40, we run this play toward the 1 & 5 technique all night long. It just hits so fast and the guys dont have to hold their blocks long. If our smaller OL just get to their blocks, we usually get 4 yds.

1. We will run it out of double slot with deep / long motion. We run Jett and Sweep alot so the motion gets a defender out of the box

Y..................OOXOO......................X
..................L.....Q....R

.........................F


2. It works very well (if not best) out of Trips for us.

Y..................OOXOO......................X
........................Q....R..........L

.........................F

3. And we used this tight double slot formation alot this year and REALLY gave some defenses fits with this. We run belly, trap, sweep, jett and play action off the belly out of this. Toward the end of the season, we were in this 40% of the time.

................Y....OOXOO....X
...................L.....Q.....R

..........................F

Karjaw,
We are doing it just like you. Its really not inside zone but a lead iso like you say.

If you want to run the Zone with the wing-t get the book Coaching Footballs Spread Offense by Tim Stower read the section on his Zone Dive. We threw belly out at the end of the year and started running this with the rocket sweep and also to the weakside of the formation with belly option great play very simple good way to run zone out of wing-t. Just a thought

My main problem in the system that I am currently in, we have very few plays that are quick hitting and don't involve pulling. Only play is the lead weak. Everything else we run involves some type of pulling and tends to hurt us in short yardage situations. I wanted something that was to the FB and quick.

We would also "on" block. Which was just a B gap dive to the Fullback and block the man in front of you. You could run that as a quick hitter with no pulling.

When we are not in our double slot or spread look, we are in this look - which is our goal line, short yardage set:

...........................Y.G.C.G.T.T...............................X
.................................Q....................R

..........................L......F


We are not a wing t team, but our quick hitters or running plays out of this are the Trap and the belly (L halfback leading to the left and the overbalanced tackle leading to the right). That is ALL.



Another great play our of this set or the one ONEBACK has up there is what I call the "down play".
Blocking similar to bucksweep.

Right half - backer
T or TE - blocks gap down backer
T - gap down backer
PSG - trap outside - kick out the last man on LOS
C - base backer
BSG - scoop to backer

QB reverse out hand off to FB going through 6 hole.
LH - option relationship to QB.

MANY Of the wing t teams run this play around here. This is there way of running the FB to the strong side of the formation.

GC, what you call the down play is what we call a "G". It is one of our main plays. Karjaw, the option series was something else I was thinking of. I was trying to decide what would be better/easier to add to the wing t. Inside veer was always something I liked at my last school. So a base from wing t and the addition of inside veer.

On the belly, are you guys reverse pivoting your QB? We want to run this next season, something quicker than the down and XB...got a 225lb FB who is good for 4 at full speed. The version of the belly that I am familiar with, other than that in wing-t world, comes from the I where we reversed the QB.

we reverse out and hand the ball off.

FB takes one lateral step , crosses over and plants / heads up field.