Red light/ green light

I may be wrong, but I have heard this terminology as well as "rabbit" and "turtle" for clock management. Red Light, meaning the offense wants to milk the clock--no audibles (at least none to pass plays), know the play clock, cover the ball, stay in bounds. Green light meaning, need to hurry, sprint to the line (possibly for spiking the ball), get out of bounds, know your time-outs--sense of urgency!

Again, this may not be the same as what you are talking about, but I've heard that terminology used this way.

I just got some great stuff from Ted Seay on the bunch running game, in his playbook green light is a wide sweep to a man in motion, red light looks the same but gets cut inside of a kickout block.

SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT TERMINOLOGY VARYING FROM TEAM TO TEAM??? TO TED IT MEANS AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, TO ME IT MEANS WHAT I POSTED. NO BIG DEAL AS LONG S YOUR PLAYERS KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS TO THEM.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

Im not a wing-t expert by any means, but I have seen and read examples of the wing-t red light green light concepts. In my understanding it refers to the Jet play in which the ball carrier has "green light" to run to the sideline or stretch the play away from the invert/force defender or the ball carrier has "red light" to cut or turn the play inside the force/invert. I believe ted seay has a handout on this concept.

we run the "red light" as an off tackle play to the split end side in the jet series. the o-line blocks the belly cross block play[83xb] rules. the fullback cheats his alignment as necessary and aims for the outside leg of the guard.he blocks the first lb from the center.[as the hb would do on x-block]. the jet hb runs as fast as he is able where he can make a 90 degree sweep cut into the b-gap. qb gives a jet handoff in the backside a-gap. this play can be a great compliment to "jet". for us "green light" is the same action to the tight end side. the jet back now thinks cut into the c-gap and the line blocks the down play.[82 down]

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Originally posted by: Caveman
What is/are the Red light/ green light plays exactly? Would someone break this down please?

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Coach Orndoff: I'll try, but as you can already see, terminology is all over the place.

"Green light" and "Red light" in the context of speed sweep plays began with Coach Mark Speckman at Willamette University in Oregon. Coach Speckman is a major proponent of the Fly Sweep offense (not to be confused with Hamp Pool's old Fly-T that he made famous with the LA Rams in the late 40's and early 50's). To Coach Speckman, a "green light" Fly sweep tells the runner to take it to the hashes, numbers, & sideline. "Red light" Fly sweep is a planned cut downhill into the C gap. (Coach Speckman also uses a "yellow light" Fly sweep, where the sweeper reads the TE's butt and cuts off his block.)

Now -- Jet sweep teams, which are generally also Wing-T teams, have adopted the same terminology regarding Green light/Red light, but they use Wing-T methods to get the variations blocked. For example, from Wing-T Red/Blue formation, teams such as Coach Herman's will use Down blocking (i.e., G scheme) to run the Red Light Sweep to the TE/WB edge. Some will use Belly XB blocking to run Red light Jet sweep to the Slot/SE side, while others (like Coach Herman) will block the same play more like an Iso, with the FB leading the sweeper through the hole.

I prefer the Down scheme to the TE/WB side and the Iso scheme, one hole tighter, to the Slot/SE side.

Hope that helps.

Thank you coaches. That is very helpful. Do you like anything (other than jet and the usual compliments to jet) as a counter or PA pass off red light/green light?