Thursday, April 10, 2008

Why You Will Never See Me Trying to Establish the Run from the ShotGun

 

Check out this video.  I guess you really do need a Tim Teebow to make that sh*t work...

Gee, that Midline is slooooooooowwwww....

Check out the stances of the linemen...  of the "Dive Back..."   they're all standing up, for Pete's sake!!!  No wonder I thought the slo-mo was first, lol!

Below is what Midline is supposed to look like...

Below are some cuts from when I was at MHS.  There are four freshmen on the OLine...  and you'll notice they don't stand up and play titties like the shotgun linemen do.  I guess that's why we had so much down-field blocking...  Of course, we're running ISV instead of Midline, but you get the point.  You don't have to have everyone block-back if you can hit it quick. 

Props to Coach Adams and Coach Crawford who were doing the line at the time.

 

One more thing to think about...  if your backfield ain't the fastest in the conference, do you want to run a slow-developing offense that hits East/West... or do you want to attack that defense North & South?

You make the call.

2 comments:

Jim Groebl said...

Coach Smith, in the last three clips of MHS running the veer, are they using point or ride on the mesh?

Steve said...

Jim,

We used the point-mesh. I think the 1st and 3rd clip are the easiest to see.