We have experienced a great deal of success over the past four seasons running our version of the Spread Shot-Wing-T offense. This package developed from our desire to keep our base Wing-T system yet spread the field against defenses that were “loading the box” on us. The quarterback that we used was a classic pocket passer and could sit in there and deliver the ball to a receiver anywhere on the field. When that player graduated, we found that a more athletic quarterback could not perform the same pinpoint passing skills that the former QB had. We had to find a way of establishing this new QB into the system. What we found was a package of plays that allows this athletic QB to attack defenses primarily with the run and also play action passes. Our philosophy is to utilize base Wing-T blocking rules and plays so that we don’t have to spend an inordinate amount of practice time on
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