Help me, I'm Irish!

Coach,
Our offense is already set up the way you have described, with a lot of iso runs, rollout passes, counters, draws and screens. I'm sure the Irish game is primitive compared to the standard you are used to, but we have the basics and have been using them for years.
Our team, the Dublin Rebels, won the Shamrock Bowl final last year and will be competing in a competition in Europe in June. We won by executing the basics better than everyone else - always a recipe for success.
This year I'd like to make the basics a little less basic, as it were. From what I know, Lombardi's Power Sweep, Y-Stick and Option are some of the basic plays installed in many offenses. We have a set of plays to compliment each one of these and keep the defense honest. While we do use these plays a lot, they slot into our playbook alongside our existing plays... so it does not lead to predictability, it adds versatility. We already had a couple of sweep plays, ran a type of option (we did it all wrong!) and passed to our TE and RBs a fair bit. We call these new plays as frequently as we would have called their equivalents in last year's playbook. The only difference is they are more successful!

I'm just looking for good plays that are easy enough to implement. Our QB and tailback are good readers of the game, but most of our players are too inexperienced to make complicated reads - which is fine because the defences we face aren't too complicated. Plays like the three I mentioned above don't call for *much* reading, so our players can handle them.

However, thanks for the reply. At least I know we were already going the right direction! And Coach Campbell, thank you for the warm welcome. I'll be lurking around here quite a bit over the next few months.



PS: Irish American Football webpage: www.iafl.info. Try to overlook the pics of shabbily-attired players in terrible stances at the trials for the IAFL allstar team. ;-)