Shotgun question?

Coach:

I think the shotgun snap is a matter of repetition (obviously), but there aren't too many techincal things we tell our center. We want the ball to come out with very little or no rotation on the ball, belt high. One thing we've found that leads to high snaps is the center's butt coming up on the snap. As far as having his head down, we don't allow him to do it. If he needs to look between his legs to get his bearings before the snap thats fine. But we have his head up on the snap.

Our original shotgun formation was 4 wides. By spreading out the defense, we only had to block a six man box, usually some form of the 4-4 defense. We use what I call marriage pass protection. Each lineman is "married" to the D lineman over him (tackles had first man on or outside). If the lineman is uncovered, he is married to the linebacker over him, if he blitzes. The number of logical ways to structure a 6 man box are pretty limited. If they wanted to stay in Cov. II, it meant a 5 man box. What we ended up seeing most of the time was both guards and tackles being covered, and the center responsible for the Mike backer, and the Aceback had the remaining LB.