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Airman,

I try not to let any defense or any boundary restriction dictate my formations, or pass selections, if I can keep from it. In the example of the ball being on the right hash, for instance, I will set the trip side to the boundary. I will cut the normal splits that I use (both x and y at least 14 yds off the ball, usually no closer than 7 yds. from the boundary in order to have room to operate) to what we call our "close formation" in which we greatly reduce our x and y splits to just 5 yds. outside of our tackles and our A, B, receivers who are normaly split 5yds. apart on the trip sides and the twins backside the C receiver will normaly split the distance from the WR and the backside tackle, will align at 3 yds off the tackle. Essentially, what we are doing is running out of ""bunch" on the trips side, taking advantage of the natural rubs and picks as most folks defend that formation in man. In my spread I will stretch the opponent horizontally in the PSL, and vertically on the snap. It is not uncommon for me to spread the x and y, with the ball in the middle of the field, from boundary to boundary, with just 1 yd. clearance. Obviously, we will run a pattern that will include the Y on a fade or go, the A receiver will sight adjust to the medium level, and the B receiver will run a 7 yd. out, a 7 yd. curl, a quick slant, etc. to influence the OLB and meet the short range stacking requirement of the receivers.
If the ball is on the left hash, I will set the trips to the field side in regular splits and the twins into the boundary in "close formation alignment" by having the X 5 yds outside the tackle and hiding the C receiver behind the backside tackle. I will have the X run a deep stretch,( go, fade, post, etc.) have the Y run a fade, the A run a straight go and the B run an 18 yd. post. I will than have the C chip the defender that aligns on his outside shoulder and run a 10 yd. drag back across to the field side, where if we caught them in man, should be cleared out and we should have at least a 10 yd. gain! I will then come back a few plays later with everything the same except instead of the C running a drag against the grain, he will run a speed out of 7yds into the boundary taking advantage of the pick of the Y on the way by in his drag route back against the grain.

These are the kind of things that work very well for us. Hope this helps you. Send me your snail mail and I will send you some diagrams, no sense of doing it here as they always shift so badly each time I try to do that. I also run a "stack series" with quads into the boundary with the Y on and the ABC receivers stacked in "Stack I" look in the slot. I have no plays whatsoever that incorporates the QB up under center, he is always aligned 5-6 yds. deep. One of my favorite plays with the ball on the hash is to align trips to the field side, twins to the boundary. It is a designed QB run into the boundary all the way! He shows pass, reads, and as soon as he has looked off the defense by looking fieldside, the instant he feels the defense has divided enough, he runs the ball into the boundary and cuts it up! We also have real good luck with speed option into the boundary
with trips set to the field side.

JC

Coach W,

Be glad to send you my spread package. Please contact me at; jerryeaston1@aol.com or coacheaston@msn.com and let me know your snail mail address so I will know where to send it.

JC Easton