Jet Sweep out Of Gun?

Haven't run it but I did see New Hampshire (I think it was anyway) run it against Ga. Southern last week. Basically the slot man ran in front of the QB, the snap was timed out so that it came when the slot was a step or two away from the QB who immediately handed it forward.

They ran a QB keep to the A/B gap that was kinda nifty also in that it looked like it kinda combined the good 'ole Statue of Liberty with the Dart play. The slot went in motion, coming behind the OB. The OB just stuck the ball behind his back staying square to the LOS as the slot approached, paused just a sec after the back passed behind him and then took off to the A/B gap away from the slot motion. Didn't get a chance to catch the blocking, but from the hole it looked like they musta pulled the BS guard to kick out on the DT like a trap.

Tog,
I would be interested to share some ideas with you if you would not mind. We run flexbone with jet sweep as our focus for our offense. You can email me at
cmarsell@mail.ircsd.org

thunder

you can email me at aloonda@yahoo.com

we run it from gun and 5 wides. we use screens off the jet sweep to keep the defense honest.

we typically see the 3-1-7 defense so it works nice as there are fewer to block.

also I like it because of the depth. willamette u runs the fly sweep where they have the sweeper bend back into the backfield. from the shotgun the sweeper is at a depth where the only guy you need to block is the de on playside and the wr needs to seal his guy. one thing we did was to line the wr up in a stack formation forcing the defense to widen itself.

when running from 3x2 set we liked to run the jetsweep from the trips to the doubles. we could then run double slants to what was the tripsside to hold the defense from sending a defender to follow the sweeper. we also ran several playaction passes off it. one being 4 verticals vs single safety defenses. we also ran a swing screen to the sweeper. we would fake the sweep, then look fo the playaction pass , while this was going on the sweeper would run a swing screen and we would dump it off to him.