Crazy option

Coach, if I'm thinking of the right play, we've run the so called crazy a little bit. We call it shuffle option. We run it from a one back set and bring the guy in speed motion in front of the quarterback. We snap it early (when the back is around the inside shoulder of the tackle). We tell our QB to aim about 2 yards outside the DE and attack outside of him. If the DE follows to keep contain we pitch it forward, if he's slow to get outside we'll pitch it out to the runningback in the backfield. It takes some practice to time it all up but it's a nice little play when you get it down. Good luck.

Coach, if I'm thinking of the right play, we've run the so called crazy a little bit. We call it shuffle option. We run it from a one back set and bring the guy in speed motion in front of the quarterback. We snap it early (when the back is around the inside shoulder of the tackle). We tell our QB to aim about 2 yards outside the DE and attack outside of him. If the DE follows to keep contain we pitch it forward, if he's slow to get outside we'll pitch it out to the runningback in the backfield. It takes some practice to time it all up but it's a nice little play when you get it down. Good luck.

Crazy option is on the plate for this saturday. The kids love it.

Coach Kramer,

I like to run load option against 4-4 teams that like to blitz. If the team is run blitzing with it's ILBs then it doesn't make sense to me to dive the FB abyway. Send the FB on the traditional option player (DE or OLB for us) and then look to option the next player, usually the OLB if you have blocked the DE, or the CB if the OLB is blocked. The QB uses a modified freeze option approach to give the motioning WB time to get into pitch relationship.

We use what we call drive blocking (like on) and block the DE. We then instruct the QB to find the force player and option off him. The force player that we usually see is the OLB or $$.