Rushing Ahead

Over the past five years we have had quarterbacks who have been 6-foot-1 or less. For this reason we have been in the shotgun a considerable amount of the time. We wanted to have threats with plays other than the passing game. We have been good throwing the ball but we needed more. We are always trying to gain yards but we also want to eliminate the negative yardage plays. We have added several plays over time. Most of them we have copied from someone somewhere along the line. I am going to discuss three of them with you. These three will all have the same backfield action and look the same initially. The tailback will be offset at 45 degrees, and at an arms length from the quarterback. The first play that I will discuss is the Read Play. Most of the time we will try to run this play to the Shade/ Five side of the defense. Because of this we always want to set our tailback to the