Mixing Wing-T with Pro

Either run one or the other... don't try to combine offenses. You're teaching a way of playing football with the wing-t, you're not just running plays.

Wing-t will fit the personnel of ANY program. Anybody can run it and have success as long as they pay great attention to detail and their kids completely understand the concepts. I wish you luck in entering our Wing-T cult.

Coach,

Just became a wing-T coach this year because I was hired by a wing-T team. So while I am definately not a guru, here's what I have found. The wing T has a "Power" series, the 30s. Also, as you start to look at different plays in the system, they're all there, they just have different names. For example 187 Belly XB can be seen as a Blast play, but the FB is the ballcarrier and the HB is the lead blocker. Just look at how the plays attack the defense and you will see similarities. I would suggest, therefore, that you can run wing-T and still have a power football mentality. I would like to differ from eaglecoach (respectfully) in that I think you would be better off learning/teaching a complete series, e.g., the 20 series, as opposed to using different plays from each series because one of the major benefits of using the Wing-T seems to be the misdirection and ability to attack several spots along the LOS with the same backfield action.

With respect to the passing, I'm not a fan of too many of the standard patterns, however, no one said you can't use some of the vertical game you may have used in the past. Remember that the ability to use PA in this offense is tremendous. A lot of 5 and 7 step patterns time up nicely with the backfield actions. Admittedly, the QB does not have the same amount of time to read the defenders, however, he's usually only reading half the field anyway because of the roll out action used in most of the PA. If you have any background in R&S football, the potential looks great here.