High Percentage Throws: Valdosta State's Shallow Passing Game

Offensively, we go by a simple rule in implementing our game plan each week. We try to make positive yards on first and second down, then pick up the remaining yards needed to move the chains on third down. We feel the best way to do this is using mostly high percentage passes and mixing in an occasional run. In this article, I am going to concentrate on one such high percentage pass play in our playbook: The Shallow Game.     Our Shallow Game has been one of the most successful and reliable packages we have had in my five years as OC at Valdosta State. It is a simple package with simple reads and a multitude of combination routes complimenting the shallow. Although I could spend several pages showing you all or some of the combinations we use, I will concentrate on the first phase of our installation of the shallow game. This phase is in the exact teaching order which we use with