ISO/Power blocking Rules

Coach Dienner,

You might want to consider developing your blocking schemes based on linemen being "covered" or "uncovered" to avoid rules for individual plays within your offense. This could be utilized with Coach Campbell's "near ear" and "part the sea" rules which tell your players to attack through the playside down defender's near ear and to rotate their feet (or butts) into the hole, thereby "parting the sea" at the point of attack for an ISO or POWER play.

An important key for us is to make sure that our TE understands that POWER means the FB will be looking to kick out the EMLOS, meaning he will need to release inside to block the nearest backer, unless we're facing a front where we need him to take an arc release to an outside defender. Usually this outside defender will be unable to make that play, provided he's has been taught to maintain outside leverage to better play a sweep or toss which is more prevalent at our level.

I hope this at least gives you some ideas to start with in designing your schemes. I would also recommend posting on the O-Line or Running Game forums as you'll find many terrific coaches who can give you ideas as well such as Coach Campbell, Coach Mountjoy and Coach Easton, just to name a few.

Best of luck coach! Please let me know if I can help in any way.

Dave Hartman
CYFL Coach