Three Plays for The Spread Offense

The spread offense is one of the most exciting offenses around today and is one of the biggest reasons why, at Wayland High School, we have had such great successes over the past couple of years. Over the last three years we have a record of 33-4 with two league titles and one state championship. It wasn’t always like this at Wayland. My first year as the head coach we were 1-10 while we were installing the spread offense but once the kids bought into the system we were able to turn things around. Our philosophy on the spread offense can change from year to year depending on your personnel and what your team strengths are. For instance, one year we would pass the ball 70 percent of the time and then the next year we only averaged passing the ball 25 percent of the time. Our philosophy on running the spread offense is: Take advantage of your skill athletes – In Wayland we found that