Running From The Shotgun Formation

When coaches think of running the football, they generally get in two tight ends and two backs, and MASH. The personnel on the field allows you take care of blocking most defenses and when you finish drawing your play everyone, at least in theory, can be blocked. You also believe you have a bigger, as strong, or stronger blocker then the defense. Many great coaches use that theory today. Here at Middle Tennessee State University, we use two tight ends and two backs and run the football also. We also do it another way – against all instincts with running the football. We spread the defense horizontally to create vertical seams in the running game. Understand the theory never changes in running the football, only the formations. You don’t use four wide receivers and one back and run it every so often as a change up. Your players will never respect it. You as the coach must create a