Post by eaglecoach on Jun 4, 2004 5:55:16 GMT
I have heard of teams that only utilize 5 total plays in their offense. We have one team in our league that runs a stack I formation, and that is all they run, 5 plays, and they are undefeated for 3 years with three championships. I believe part of it is because they have much more talent than the rest of the league. However, my question is, has anyone else had success with running only 5 plays?
It seems difficult to me to only have this many plays and be successful. It makes sense, but I can't see how you can do it. The best that I've been able to do is run 8 plays.....but we run them out of a large variety of formations. I believe in football there are 8 basic plays. No matter what formation you run there are only 8 basic plays:
1. Dive
2. Power(iso or off tackle)
3. Sweep(handoff or toss)
4. Counter
5. Option
6. QB keep/pass(sprintout)
7. QB Boot pass (waggle)
8. Some form of drop back pass (3, 5, 7 step)
Every play in football is a derivitive of one of these 8 plays. So we have been able to limit ourselves to 8 to start, but we run these 8 out of a lot of different formations.
I'm curious as to how other people feel about this.
Thanks,
Tim
It seems difficult to me to only have this many plays and be successful. It makes sense, but I can't see how you can do it. The best that I've been able to do is run 8 plays.....but we run them out of a large variety of formations. I believe in football there are 8 basic plays. No matter what formation you run there are only 8 basic plays:
1. Dive
2. Power(iso or off tackle)
3. Sweep(handoff or toss)
4. Counter
5. Option
6. QB keep/pass(sprintout)
7. QB Boot pass (waggle)
8. Some form of drop back pass (3, 5, 7 step)
Every play in football is a derivitive of one of these 8 plays. So we have been able to limit ourselves to 8 to start, but we run these 8 out of a lot of different formations.
I'm curious as to how other people feel about this.
Thanks,
Tim
