Lift, Rico, Hand Check, Gun: The Four Ways Off a Zone Double Team
Outside zone rarely dies at the point of attack. It dies when a lineman leaves the double team early. Coach Jim Turner, offensive line coach
Outside zone rarely dies at the point of attack. It dies when a lineman leaves the double team early. Coach Jim Turner, offensive line coach
Jeff Lebby puts a quarterback on the screen who, in his words, “plays as well as anybody in the country.” Then he spends the whole
Most tunnel screens don’t die at the catch. They die a beat later, when the receiver drifts too far inside and every retracing defensive lineman
To the defense, this play looks exactly like the one you just ran. Same presentation. Same backfield action. The defensive end reads it the way
The snag isn’t a spot. It’s a window. Most coaches install it as a sit-down route at five or six yards and leave it there.
Most coaches install spacing as a catch-it-on-the-run concept. Will Stein doesn’t coach it that way. In his words, spacing is “not a movement, catch the
The hands win the race for inside position. The feet are what actually move the defender. Summer is when you build that. No game plan
The option doesn’t give you time to think. The mesh, the read, and the pitch all happen in about a second, and a quarterback who
Nobody has good film on you. That’s the quiet edge of running the Wing-T, and Coach David Weathersby builds the whole thing on it. Other
You don’t have enough blockers. That’s the whole problem, and it’s the whole point. Five-man surface, six in the box, and no way to account
