triple option from the I

Thanks for the quick reply. Any suggestions on how to implement a jet sweep to our stud back who would normally occupy the tailback position?

Go unbalanced. Take the TE and put him on the split end side, with your "Z" or flanker away. Use the "Z" as your jet sweep man.

Coach,
Jet Sweep requires you to motion a wingback down the line. We are a Jet Sweep team that aligns our best back as the "fullback" in a Red or Blue formation. We will motion backs down the line for the jet sweep and in "tail" motion to run Bucksweep, Power, etc. Do you run the rocket sweep with your best back, that would require the tail motion and you can also run options off that motion (e.g., Air Force type flexbone attack).

Not familiar with the term "tail" motion. Is that wingback motion to get into pitch relationship?

Coach, we run a play that may be of some use to you to deal with teams blitzing to the speed motion. We call it scissors blast. We are in a double wing usually with a TE to where we want the play to go. We do run sweep to the SE side quite a bit. We fake speed sweep away and the wing on the side we're motioning to has aligned back a yard. Upon the snap of the ball he steps back and receives an outside handoff from the QB. He is led through the backside B gap by the FB. So if we're running scissors blast to the left, we fake sweep right and handoff to the right Wingback coming back to the left. It's been a very good play for us given that we like to run that speed sweep a lot. And yes "tail" motion means the Wingback going in motion to behind the FB to get into a pitch relationship. Good luck.

We block it similar to how we block the blast. The TE blocks out (in 4 OLB, in 5 DE), the playside T & G double team and kiss off to the ILB, the FB blocks DE in a 4, OLB in a 5, C man on to backer, backside G & T man on to backer. Good luck. The other play that may help you is we fake a sweep to one side and throw a slant to SE opposite the Sweep call especially if they blitz the backside OLB (which a lot of teams do because partially because we run reasonably effective waggle off sweep action). good luck.

Coach,
We run those plays from a wing/slot set (IV, OV, & Mid)couple of things you could try: false motion your stud and veer back to the motion, or do the same thing with the dive back going toward the motion and run counter option off the EMLOS.

From the I we run Double Dive/Counter trap off of our veer, the same counter veer, and trap off the veer.

Charger, I run a pass play that we simply call TOP PASS (triple option pass). We align in the pro with "I" backs. The QB fakes give to FB who drives A gap right at the FS and hooks it up at 7-9 yds. and squats as quietly as he can (this is key). QB then attacks downhill just as he would in OSV. When he is directly behind the PST, he takes a QUICK 3 STEP DROP. Pattern consists of a 10 yd. drag by TE. Boundary release go's by the X and Z. Swing to playside by TB as a safety valve. As we read from top to bottom, QB picks a side in the PSL as this reduces his field read to 50%. He reads the BACK SIDE X go, then the UNDER DRAG by the TE. BUT, THE FB SQUATTING AT 7-9 YDS. IS ALMOST ALWAYS OPEN AS THE FS JUST FORGETS ABOUT HIM ONCE HE SEES HE DOES NOT HAVE THE BALL ON THE DIVE FAKE THAT INITIATES THE PLAY. Just get him the ball and watch him go! Ralph Dawkins, who went on to a very successful career at
Louisville, and then to the pros with the Saints ran this play for over 400 yds. from his FB spot. He was falling on his turn up field when he first started running the play. In observing his technique, I saw that he was not flattening out his hand on the ground to help maintain his balance. When we got this simple little technique straight, he went on to really good things with this play. I'll be glad to send you a copy of the play the way I run it, if you like. Just email me at: coacheaston@hotmail.com or jerryeaston1@aol.com and I will send it to you. Every time I diagram it on the forum here, it shifts. Just send me your sanil; mail address and you will have it in a couple of days.

Coach Easton