Proper installation of I-Back Veer in a new Program?

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ASAP. Like was said before the sooner the better. If you could teach the kids in 5th grade then do that.

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Originally posted by: mg
Coach,
I think you work the read at the lowest level you have. you may not, like some of the other coaches have written previously, be able to use it as a read at the lower level. I think you should also have a play to attack every gap on the LOS. i would always start with inside veer, then go to midline, then lead option. The biggest decision I think needs to be made from the I formation is what C-gap play will you use, the G Belly or the outside veer. We run both and have had great success with both. At the lower levels I think the belly and the option off it are great plays. As the program develops, the outside veer in my opinion is the hardest play in football to stop.

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Coach,
our fb takes a 45 degree crossover step with the foot opposite the play. His aiming point is the but of teh playside offensive tackle. Our QB steps towards the offensive tackle and attacks the dive read. There is no real ride. We will decide to give or pull on the run. The depth of the FB is the same for us on IV, Midline, OV, and belly. Depending on the speed he is 4yds from the ball.

We were always a split back veer team until mid-way through last season. Because of injuries we had to go to the I formation.(we didn't have two true rb type kids but had a lot of fb/lb kids). We did not run the outside veer from the I last year. This year we worked really hard on it and it was very good to us. It does not hit as quick as from split backs but I think it helped our QB make better reads with it. It is my favorite play. The only trouble we really had to coach up was the fb getting his shoulders square at the mesh. They will tend to go on the 45 degree course.

The play still attacks at the veer angle of the split back veer. The cross over step at 45, give the quicker width the play needs. We started the summer working on having the back playside step towards the tackle but it never timed up right and the angle of his shoulders was too drastic. We run g-belly and we modified those steps and it really seems to work quite well.