Coach, with the quick hitch/boot play, if the hitch isn't there do you have the quarterback reverse out into the boot or regular flood-type foot work? Great content Coach, keep 'em coming.
Do you have cell phones that you talk into and your QB's can hear them in their helmets? I used to use them in college when playing flag football. I would run an up tempo offense and have the QB hear me calling the play in their blue tooth head piece, and then call the play under center at the line.
Thanks Coach. I coach a 11u youth team and I am really looking at operating out of 20 personnel. We will probably see some 53 and WT6 just curious as to how you would attack these structures out of 20 personnel. Would you move the fullback up to a wing position and have zone step like the rest of the OL if you were running IZ to the left and read the EMOL? Just wondering if there is a way to stay true to 20 personnel against these structures.
If I get short in the box I add another sniffer. Those two defenses are 8 man fronts so you know you will get Cov 3 or Man Free. If they have too many in the box eventually you have to throw the ball.
Yep agree with you on throwing ball if numbers are not favorable. I was just wondering if there was a way to stay in the three receiver look because I like the bubble to No. 2 on the two receiver side.
Love watching your instructional videos. I understand you have certain plays you like week by week, but would it no longer be speedball if you were to script the different plays and mix them up from the same look, without huddling? i.e. you talked about allowing kids to line up the same ways repetitively and run power, with the rpo, and gift to the single side receiver. Then you said you can break the call if you don't like what you are doing, so i guess my original question is: whit speedball, can we still change plays withing the formation while trying to keep getting the ball off?
I think you could do that, for us speedball is a Tempo from the sideline we want to be able to rep and master in practice over and over again. I want our guys to understand what that tempo means. Some coaches script in plays like fire Alarms they will call after an explosive play or after a 1st down on a certain spot on the field. as long as your teaching is consistent you can do anything you choose
Coach, Do you have a call or tag that you want to run your Speedball play, but have the formation and play flipped? So that you aren't running it into the boundary?
Hey coach I love the videos. Is there anyway you could do a video on your play action passes? The way you block them, the route concepts, if it's play action power do you show the guard skip pulling to truly "sell" the fake? I love your content because you do address issue like the mental capacity of the level you coach. If this isn't in a future plan any feedback would help, thanks!
We usually full slide our Play Action passes for protection purposes. If you wanted the best look possible blocking the play action as close to the run as possible is the best look.
Hey coach love your videos. I am trying to become a GA at any college or university. I'm a former player and want to go into coaching after my college days. Your videos give me a peek into the field it is great. But quick question do you ever have problems with lineman downfield on your RPOs?
@ 9:52 the fullback needs to pick up the SS in the box, if it's an RPO and within 5 yards that's a 🥞, the Y Reciever is open in the flank with a Lead Blocker and I believe the play was Post RPO, the Left X Reciever should be cutting underneathe the FreeSafety for the Cov.3 beater
Access reads all post snap correct coach? Done as a last read through progression, front side to backside? Wanting to make sure it’s not taught as a Pre snap
Jordan Strickland Access for us is a Pre Snap deal based on the look we are getting and the box we can handle. Post Snap the read has to become whoever the conflicted defender is. If we had an Access read frontside there is no way for us to read that post snap if our RPO read is bavkside
Coach, you mentioned the bubble concept isn't what you would go with for your RPO patterns off of power. Would your run a quick screen to the #1 on the twins side or something completely different?
I like running something intermediate in the window of the vacated RPO defender. Snag by 1 and corner by 2, or Hitch by 2, Vertical by 1. I want to assure we gain yardage if we read the play correctly and complete the pass. The bubble can be tackled for a loss depending on coverage and how hard the corner triggers. Inside tunnel to #1 is a better screen choice in my opinion.
I do not like quick screens as RPO'S, I prefer to throw the ball past the line of scrimmage. Screens are part of our Triple Option package which I do not consider RPO'S
Up tempo is the only way to play offensive football. It is hard to sell to some coaches. Especially to coaches who are short handed for some reason. I think if you are short on Dudes that you HAVE to play up tempo. You smoke the defense up like a brush fire in California during the fall and your players, if you practice up tempo everyday, will be sufficiently conditioned to play fast on O and catch their breath after the TD and before kickoff. They learn how to get the needed water and required recovery if you push them at game speed during practice. I am the coach who is completely against running sprints or pushing weight sleds for conditioning at the end of practice. I am of a mind that if you can get them to buy into going 100 mph at practice on every play and every drill that they should be conditioning during those periods. I don't know how many times I have stood on the field watching players run sprints in ability groups and picked out the fastest kids in each group cruising just fast enough to make the time cutoff and watched the players who think they are incapable of making the time jog and act like they are going into pulmonary distress and can't possibly run any faster than the slow trot they are moving at. The trick is to front load the team that max effort during practice equals no running sprints and hold them accountable for any player not putting out.
Might be one of the only things I would do at lower level. Get 4-6 plays you can master and run them 100 MPH. Teach QBS early how to analyze defensive structures
Totally unrelated. Scenario: Defense has a 3 man front. The nose slants to the a gap. Does the a gap move as the play widens? where does the a gap go? does it move? or was it the original location when the play started (a yard wide space between guard and tackle)?
Hey Coach, what a job! Let me ask you something. I'm brazilian and truly want to play football in the USA. I mean, how can I get a football scholarship in any university of the USA? Is that possible? Thx for your time!
Coach, In your second example (4 option play - off the zone action, where the sniffer bluffs the EMLOS) can the QB get the access/gift throw off before the unblocked DE hits him in the mouth?
Hello coach I'm a little new to this and I wanted to know what you ment about 20 personnel? I hear other coaches use this terminology. Could you explain for me. thanks again.
I'm sure you are familiar with the "Hero/Halo" 2 back formation tags. When they add the "Flip" tag is the H or the Z the adjuster? Thanks again Coach M!
Love that idea!!!
big fan of just spamming iso until the safety takes the eye candy into the box and throwing it deep
Another great video awesome stuff keep up the great work coach...
Great stuff coach from a canadian fan !! I love to impliment your schemes to canadian football (12 players)
Great post Coach!
Doing a great job Coach, You really helping a guy like myself, Going from DC to OC this year and a lot of your tempo stuff is solid.
Keep it simple and really work on the tempo.
Just do the things you know drive you nuts on defense.
another great one coach
Coach, with the quick hitch/boot play, if the hitch isn't there do you have the quarterback reverse out into the boot or regular flood-type foot work?
Great content Coach, keep 'em coming.
We reverse out Coach. Thank You.
I like to reverse out to get more depth away from LOS and backside EMOL or secondary contain.
Do you have cell phones that you talk into and your QB's can hear them in their helmets? I used to use them in college when playing flag football. I would run an up tempo offense and have the QB hear me calling the play in their blue tooth head piece, and then call the play under center at the line.
We do not
Hey Coach Mac great video. What kinds of gifts or access routes would you or do you run backside?
We usually run hitch or fade.
Thanks Coach. I coach a 11u youth team and I am really looking at operating out of 20 personnel. We will probably see some 53 and WT6 just curious as to how you would attack these structures out of 20 personnel. Would you move the fullback up to a wing position and have zone step like the rest of the OL if you were running IZ to the left and read the EMOL? Just wondering if there is a way to stay true to 20 personnel against these structures.
If I get short in the box I add another sniffer. Those two defenses are 8 man fronts so you know you will get Cov 3 or Man Free. If they have too many in the box eventually you have to throw the ball.
Yep agree with you on throwing ball if numbers are not favorable. I was just wondering if there was a way to stay in the three receiver look because I like the bubble to No. 2 on the two receiver side.
Great idea coach. Do you game plan theses concepts or can you Speed Ball any play during the game?
I have certain plays I like in speedball. Each week based on gameplan I will narrow it down to 3-4.
Love watching your instructional videos. I understand you have certain plays you like week by week, but would it no longer be speedball if you were to script the different plays and mix them up from the same look, without huddling? i.e. you talked about allowing kids to line up the same ways repetitively and run power, with the rpo, and gift to the single side receiver. Then you said you can break the call if you don't like what you are doing, so i guess my original question is: whit speedball, can we still change plays withing the formation while trying to keep getting the ball off?
I think you could do that, for us speedball is a Tempo from the sideline we want to be able to rep and master in practice over and over again. I want our guys to understand what that tempo means. Some coaches script in plays like fire Alarms they will call after an explosive play or after a 1st down on a certain spot on the field. as long as your teaching is consistent you can do anything you choose
Coach,
Do you have a call or tag that you want to run your Speedball play, but have the formation and play flipped? So that you aren't running it into the boundary?
Opposite
Hey coach I love the videos. Is there anyway you could do a video on your play action passes? The way you block them, the route concepts, if it's play action power do you show the guard skip pulling to truly "sell" the fake? I love your content because you do address issue like the mental capacity of the level you coach. If this isn't in a future plan any feedback would help, thanks!
I can do that.
We usually full slide our Play Action passes for protection purposes. If you wanted the best look possible blocking the play action as close to the run as possible is the best look.
Hey coach love your videos. I am trying to become a GA at any college or university. I'm a former player and want to go into coaching after my college days. Your videos give me a peek into the field it is great. But quick question do you ever have problems with lineman downfield on your RPOs?
Been called 2-3 times in 3 years.
Thomas MacPherson that's amazing you must instill alot of discipline.
It's not so much that, it's just a grey area of yards downfield and it happens so quickly.
@ 9:52 the fullback needs to pick up the SS in the box, if it's an RPO and within 5 yards that's a 🥞, the Y Reciever is open in the flank with a Lead Blocker and I believe the play was Post RPO, the Left X Reciever should be cutting underneathe the FreeSafety for the Cov.3 beater
Thanks
Thanks for the video coach. What are the categories you've sectioned off on your whiteboard? Gameplan?
Colleges that had stopped by in Spring
No that's old stuff from a previous staff. I used it to keep track of what colleges came in to recruit.
Access reads all post snap correct coach? Done as a last read through progression, front side to backside? Wanting to make sure it’s not taught as a Pre snap
Jordan Strickland Access for us is a Pre Snap deal based on the look we are getting and the box we can handle. Post Snap the read has to become whoever the conflicted defender is. If we had an Access read frontside there is no way for us to read that post snap if our RPO read is bavkside
Coach, do you try to integrate what you do on varsity with what the middle school(s) that feed your program are doing?
We do not have a true feeder, in a county with 6 high schools. Installing our system would be recruiting.
How can I get tickets to the Atlanta show do u have a link
Coach, you mentioned the bubble concept isn't what you would go with for your RPO patterns off of power. Would your run a quick screen to the #1 on the twins side or something completely different?
I like running something intermediate in the window of the vacated RPO defender. Snag by 1 and corner by 2, or Hitch by 2, Vertical by 1. I want to assure we gain yardage if we read the play correctly and complete the pass. The bubble can be tackled for a loss depending on coverage and how hard the corner triggers. Inside tunnel to #1 is a better screen choice in my opinion.
I do not like quick screens as RPO'S, I prefer to throw the ball past the line of scrimmage. Screens are part of our Triple Option package which I do not consider RPO'S
whats the most plays in a row you ran speed ball? was it because the defense adjusted? did you run speed ball again later in a game?
4 or 5 plays is the most we got. Adjustments, hash marks, and down and distance get us out.
4 Straight is the most I have run. Usually an adjustment or down and distance gets me out of it.
Coach Mac, Can you do a video on how you would defend the Read Power out of the 4-2-5. Specifically Read Power with a lead blocker.
Lead blocker in front of the Jet Sweep?
Yes, the offset back leads the jet as the QB reads the end. Run it out of a tight double slot look.
Lead Blocker like backside Guard pulling?
Up tempo is the only way to play offensive football. It is hard to sell to some coaches. Especially to coaches who are short handed for some reason. I think if you are short on Dudes that you HAVE to play up tempo. You smoke the defense up like a brush fire in California during the fall and your players, if you practice up tempo everyday, will be sufficiently conditioned to play fast on O and catch their breath after the TD and before kickoff. They learn how to get the needed water and required recovery if you push them at game speed during practice.
I am the coach who is completely against running sprints or pushing weight sleds for conditioning at the end of practice. I am of a mind that if you can get them to buy into going 100 mph at practice on every play and every drill that they should be conditioning during those periods.
I don't know how many times I have stood on the field watching players run sprints in ability groups and picked out the fastest kids in each group cruising just fast enough to make the time cutoff and watched the players who think they are incapable of making the time jog and act like they are going into pulmonary distress and can't possibly run any faster than the slow trot they are moving at.
The trick is to front load the team that max effort during practice equals no running sprints and hold them accountable for any player not putting out.
Hey coach Macpherson would you run speedball tempo with the lower high school levels
Might be one of the only things I would do at lower level. Get 4-6 plays you can master and run them 100 MPH. Teach QBS early how to analyze defensive structures
Any RPO stuff from three back sets? Diamond or two sniffer look?
I dont like them as much,not as many conflicted defenders
What do you think I can take from this for my 8-9 year old team? Do you have a playbook I can look at and learn from?
I think youth teams can run 3 or 4 plays with multiple options. I'd rather see this than 200 plays ran like crap with people yelling block somebody
lol I agree. I'm able to run about 20 plays fluently with everyone knowing their assignments
Totally unrelated. Scenario: Defense has a 3 man front. The nose slants to the a gap. Does the a gap move as the play widens? where does the a gap go? does it move? or was it the original location when the play started (a yard wide space between guard and tackle)?
Gaps move
Gaps always move
Hey Coach, what a job! Let me ask you something. I'm brazilian and truly want to play football in the USA. I mean, how can I get a football scholarship in any university of the USA? Is that possible? Thx for your time!
It would be extremely tough due to the extraordinary amounts of high school kids playing football in the US. Nothing is impossible.
Gotta get game film to someone or walk on
Coach,
In your second example (4 option play - off the zone action, where the sniffer bluffs the EMLOS) can the QB get the access/gift throw off before the unblocked DE hits him in the mouth?
If he is choosing the pre snap gift throw he will normally tell the TB to block the end since we won't be reading him.
Coach Mac the deep back or the sniffer? And this is communicated at the LOS?
The QB tells the TB to not mesh and block the end. Sniffer doesn't change
Coach Mac thanks coach. Lastly when do you prefer the single WR run the hitch vs the speed out?
We run hitch on access and speed out with RPO stuff to him.
Hello coach I'm a little new to this and I wanted to know what you ment about 20 personnel? I hear other coaches use this terminology. Could you explain for me. thanks again.
20 personnel refers to 2 backs and no tight ends.
oh ok, so if it was a 3 backs and 1 te would it be 31?
Indeed
Awesome thanks again Coach..
2 running backs zero tight ends
Hey Coach Mac....is there an email address to reach you?
sting8740@gmail.com
How do you in Pistol call the side that your F is going to? What are your rules? Thanks
In all 2 back sets we tell the backs where to go. Use tags like strong, weak, near, far.
What are your thoughts about putting the 2 receivers to the field and "Near/Far the H" giving a one-word formation? Thanks!@@CoachMac
Absolutely!!!
I'm sure you are familiar with the "Hero/Halo" 2 back formation tags. When they add the "Flip" tag is the H or the Z the adjuster? Thanks again Coach M!
The Z is the adjuster