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The teams that you face now are usually of equal or greater caliber.
Solid offensive performances are still built around the core of what you do that has got you to this point. However, being able to strategically add an explosive play through the use of some kind of deceptive or trick can provide the spark plug you need to overcome your opponent.
Know your opponent and what players on defense are quick to react to an initial key. Plan your attack here.
Decide when and where are the appropriate time to use these plays. Most of the time these plays are effective when the game is tight.
Set up the play to fit into what you do. Use looks and formations that are already part of your game plan. A formation the defense hasn’t seen sometimes causes them to play less aggressively and could be an indicator that you are doing something out of the ordinary.
Practice your plays but not too much. Give it a few team reps and over the week and that’s all. If there is a key mechanic involved with ball handling or a pass, let the players involved practice it separately.
Have fun! These plays are always fun when they work out and the players love to execute them.
There are many possibilities for the tricks you can design. Here’s three unique trick plays to get your creative juices flowing.
#1) “Tony Disco” from Shawn Liotta
Shawn Liotta has plenty of gadgets that work. This is one he let his players name and they called it “Tony Disco.” It’s a variation of Philly Special, and is great in the red zone. The Speed sweep action gets the defense flowing immediately and leaves them exposed on the opposite flank for the TD.
He’s known for his explosive offense, and he’s not shy about using trick plays. Coach Darlington put this play into his arsenal after seeing Gus Malzahn run it while he was at Arkansas, thus the name. Again, sweep action gets the defense moving and both the player aligned at QB and the TE on the crossing route are wide open. Coach loves this play against defenses who play man coverage.
Eric Marty, offensive coordinator at Grambling features another play borrowed from one of the great coaches in the game, Steve Spurrier. This is one that has fly motion, a toss to the tailback, and a throw to a tight end that delays his release. All of the action in the backfield, and the initial block of the TE allows him to get lost in the secondary even though, as Coach Marty points out, they prefer not to run it against this coverage. It works anyway. It’s another play that’s good in the red zone.
Trick plays are always an opportunity to change the game and put your team ahead.
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The sprint out game provides a diverse package that builds upon other components of the passing game. Overall, the concepts used in an offense can be adapted to fit the quarterback on the move.
Sprint out fits into any offense and any type of personnel grouping. It’s simple to teach and it gives an offense efficiency in moving the ball down the field.
Kevin Kelley, who spent the 2021 season as the head coach of FCS passing leader Presbyterian, starts by pointing out a flaw in the thought process that many coaches mention as why to not sprint out...that it “takes away half of the field.” His answer is simple.You aren't taking away half of the field because they have to cover the other half of the field.
The ability to move the pocket and the launch point of the quarterback can help create and attack holes in defensive coverage.
Moving the launch point certainly is a way to alleviate pressure and get the quarterback cleaner looks. For the offensive line, the movement will help them as well.
Protection
As mentioned, changing the launch point to deter pressure is a big benefit offered by the sprint out passing game. The protection is relatively simple and doesn’t require the refined technique of the dropback game. Where the dropback game protection forces an offensive lineman to deal with two-way go’s as well as having to be sound in twists and stunts, the movement of the pocket simplifies both technique and scheme.
Matt Drinkall, TE Coach at Army, begins with the understanding of protection being full-gap 7- man protection. He doesn’t like to call it turnback. He sets it up so there are two protecting the front side edge. His version of sprint out allows the QB to get on the move but be set up to throw which he feels gives a higher completion percentage, especially when moving to the opposite side of his throwing arm. Here’s how he does it.
With a spread set, the protection can be adapted to six-man with the single running back utilized to protect the front side edge.
Like Coach Drinkall, Eric Marty, now the offensive coordinator for the USFL Michigan Panthers doesn’t teach the protection as a turnback, and he never asks a lineman to reach a frontside defender. This philosophy makes it much easier for the offensive line. He explains how they protect against an even front with the single running back assigned to the frontside edge.
Concepts
The concepts for sprint out can be very simple and build off of each other. Coupled with some compliments, this is a segment of an offense that defensive coordinators will have to spend time planning to stop.
To start with, sprint out can be used from any type of formation 3x1, 2x2, 3x2, and 4x1. For Coach Kelley, it starts with something simple like a one-on-one to the single WR side. The safety is slid over and not in a great position to help. The WR will run and out-and-up but come back if he doesn’t beat the corner as illustrated below.
In this example, Coach Kelley moves the running back into empty to put him in a position to help on the edge. The same out-and-up with comeback rule is run.
He illustrates the multiplicity of the concept and when run against looks that he shows is unstoppable when executed properly, Coach Kelley breaks down all of these examples in this video
Once more receivers are added to the sprint out, the possibilities of how to attack the defense expand. Coach Drinkall likes to incorporate some form of smash with one route attacking vertically and another route attacking the flat. He explains his outside concept in this video.
Many offenses utilize the Snag concept which allows for a quicker timing from dropback as well as multiplicity from the types of 3-man surface formations and personnel groups. Coach Marty loves the concept as part of his sprint-out attack. Like Drinkall mentions, it does create a type of smash concept with a high-low to stretch the defense and attack zone coverage. It also creates some natural traffic for defenders to negotiate which makes it a great man-beater as well. He explains it here.
Those are just a few examples of how concepts can be adapted to sprint out. The idea is to be efficient in teaching so that dropback and sprintout concepts do not need to be exclusive to one category. The carry-over will cut down teaching and allow for route technique to be perfected.
Using Sprint Out Situationally
It fits into any field zone and virtually any down and distance. Bill Walsh made a living on Sprint Right Option with his Hall of Fame quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young. Sprint right option is still a play that can be seen at every level of football. Many times it is a play reserved for the goal line area because it creates rubs and allows receivers to get open in an area with reduced vertical space. (see diagram below):
Coach Kelley carries an entire menu for this area of the field. He shares his variations in this video.
Complimentary plays
In general, any effective concept in an offense warrants the use of complimentary plays. Defenses work hard to take away effective plays thus opening opportunities to use other plays to exploit the weaknesses the defense creates to stop a concept.
Coach Drinkall thinks about how movement affects a defensive back who has to stop the sprint out and he creates concepts to take advantage of that.
His first idea is to tag a double move which takes advantage of an overplay by the defensive back. When the defender is jumping a corner route, utilizing a corner-post allows for a big play opportunity. Remember, in his version of the sprint out, the QB sets his feet to throw, thus making this a viable option. It would be much more difficult on the run for the QB. He illustrates it in this diagram.
Compliments don’t have to be shot plays all of the time. Simply attacking the linebacker movement to the sprint out side creates opportunities for a short pass and run after catch with a drag or shallow.
In addition, throwback screens, sprint draws, and even trick plays can be built off of the sprint out concept.
Conclusion
Changing the launch point is a smart way to take away the effectiveness of pressure. Because it can incorporate the concepts used in dropback, it’s an efficient way to provide the offense multiplicity. With a little thought, even a small package can be developed for an offense to realize these benefits.
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An All-Big 12 defensive back at Texas (2008-11) and special teams coordinator at Ole Miss and Houston, Blake Gideon was named safeties coach for the Longhorns on January 22, 2021. In 2022, Texas featured the emergence defensive backs Jahdae Barron and Jerrin Thompson as well as veteran Anthony Cook, who each registered career years to earn honorable mention All-Big 12 Conference accolades from the league’s coaches. Gideon began his coaching career as a defensive quality control assistant at Florida in 2014 before moving on to Auburn to serve as a defensive graduate assistant. Gideon signed a free agent contract with the Arizona Cardinals following the 2012 NFL Draft. He was signed to the Denver Broncos practice squad in October 2012 and trained with the club until retiring in May 2013.
Gideon was a four-year starter at safety and two-time team captain at Texas, where he played under head coach Mack Brown and defensive coordinators Will Muschamp and Manny Diaz. He started all 52 games during his career at safety with the Longhorns, which represents the second-most consecutive starts on school record. He helped Texas to a 12-1 record and No. 3 final ranking while starting as a true freshman in 2008 and played a key role in leading the Longhorns to a 13-1 mark, Big 12 Championship, berth in the BCS National Championship game and a No. 2 final ranking in 2009. Book this course here
Monty Gibson enters his 5th season in the NFL as the Browns’ assistant strength and conditioning coach, after being named to his position on April 5, 2018.
Gibson comes to Cleveland with over 26 years of coaching experience, with 18 of those years spent as a member of the Texas A&M strength and conditioning staff. As a sports performance coach, Gibson was responsible for overseeing the strength and conditioning programs for the Aggie track and field men’s and women’s sprints and mid-distance runners, as well as the equestrian and men’s tennis teams. He also worked alongside Browns director of strength and conditioning Larry Jackson for five years (2012-16) in the Aggie football program.
In 2017, Gibson trained several of Texas A&M’s football players in preparation for the NFL Scouting Combine, in addition to assisting with the Aggie women’s basketball offseason training program.
Previously, Gibson has served as the strength and conditioning coach for Aggie baseball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s diving and men’s and women’s cross country. He was also the camp director of the Texas A&M Summer Strength and Conditioning Camp from 2004-12. Prior to being promoted as one of the school’s full-time strength and conditioning coaches in 2003, he served as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2002-03 after serving as a volunteer strength and conditioning coach from 2000-02.
Prior to joining the A&M staff, Gibson was an elementary physical education teacher at Crockett Elementary in Bryan, Texas, from 2000-02. He served as the athletic coordinator at Stephen F. Austin Middle School in Bryan from 1999-2000, where he coached football, basketball and track and supervised off-season training.
Gibson began his coaching career working for the Fort Stockton (Texas) Independent School District, teaching and coaching in the district from 1994-1999. After his first two years at the middle school, he was elevated to the high school ranks where he was a varsity football defensive line coach, a head swimming and diving coach, an assistant track coach and a freshman football coach.
Gibson is certified by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa), in addition to being a strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and USA Weightlifting. He earned the title of Master Strength and Conditioning Coach with the CSCCa in 2016.
A native of San Angelo, Texas, Gibson earned his degree in biology and life-earth sciences in 1993 from Angelo State University. He also received his master’s degree in exercise physiology from Texas A&M in 2003.
He and his wife, Leah, have three sons, Garrison, Chase and Kyle. Book this lecture here
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If you’ve been named captain of your team, your coach and teammates are expecting you to be a leader. But what does it even mean to be a leader? And how do you do it? Here are five tips to help you bring your team together.
1. Lead by example in terms of effort.
This is probably the one you’re already best at doing. Captains generally tend to be not only good athletes, but great workers.
An old leadership adage goes like this, “Your team will do what you do well half as well and will do what you do poorly twice as poorly.”
So if you are the leader of your team and you are skipping your last two reps in the weight room, the people you lead will be skipping four. If you slack off on the last sprint of practice, your teammates are slacking off on the last two.
If you are a defensive captain who has put in work in the film room and know the two plays an offense is likely to run out of a formation, the people you lead may know one.
Your teammates are looking to you to show them what’s possible. Your effort will pave the way.
2. Don’t worry about making mistakes.
The reason rule #1 came first is because although it may seem harder to always give your best effort, it actually makes things a lot more fun for you.
People will forgive all of your mistakes if you are giving 100%, but if you’re slacking, they will blame you for their lack of success.
I remember a teammate of mine playing offensive line who jumped the snap count and came off the line so low, fast and ferociously he knocked the defensive lineman from a four point stance directly backwards onto his rump. Nobody else moved.
It was just my teammate standing over the d-lineman he’d destroyed realizing he’d jumped the snap count. Did he cost our team five yards? Yes. However, twenty years later I can’t even remember who we were playing or if we won the game, but I still remember that play as clearly as if I’d watched it on Youtube five seconds ago. Why? Because although he made a mistake, he did it going full speed.
Your teammates will remember the effort you give far longer than they will remember the yards you gain or lose. If you’re afraid to make a mistake, you’ll never go full speed. If you don’t go full speed, you’ll never learn from your mistakes.
3. It’s easier to tear people down than build people up.
As a young leader it is easy to confuse “leadership” with “being a boss.” Remember all of your teammates play with you voluntarily. Nobody likes to be “bossed around”, even if it’s “for their own good”, or “for the good of the team.”
Basically, people hate to be bossed, but love to be led. Instead of looking for all of the ways your teammates are screwing up--that’s your coach’s job--instead look for ways they are improving. A simple way of putting this is, “Catch your teammates doing something right and acknowledge them for it.”
When you form the habit of catching your teammates doing something right and letting them know about it, they will begin to see that you believe in them and want to give their best effort.
My coach did a great job of using my teammate’s penalty as a teaching lesson about how to explode off the line instead of being angry with him for costing us five yards, and it inspired the whole team to play harder.
Tim Tebow also provided a great example of living into this principle in a 2011 game vs. the Chicago Bears. During the third quarter of this game, Tebow threw a beautiful pass to Demaryius Thomas which would have been a sure touchdown, tied the game and given the Broncos momentum.
Thomas dropped the pass.
Instead of ripping into Thomas, Tebow went to him and said, “Don’t worry about it, you’ll catch the game winning touchdown.” There was no game winning touchdown, but Thomas did score in the fourth quarter leading to an improbable come from behind victory.
A few weeks later in a playoff game against the Steelers, Tebow and Thomas connected on a game winning 80 yard touchdown on the first play of overtime.
It would have been easier for Tebow to remind Demaryius of what a great throw he’d made and blame Demaryius for letting the team down, but instead he forgave him immediately and let him know he believed in his ability for the future. And that belief paid off when it mattered most.
Look for the best in people, avoid taking the easy way out and building yourself up while putting other people down, and catch your teammates doing things right. Before you know it, you won’t have to yell at your teammates to do their best--they’ll want to follow your example because they trust you and believe in you because you forgive them and believe in them.
4. Help your coach communicate the message.
If you are the captain of your team it means you are trusted by both your teammates and your coaches. A quick, easy way to bond your teammates together is by talking trash about your coach. There is also no quicker way to destroy your team.
At some point every player has a problem with their coach. It is easy to turn this dislike into a reason to not give your best effort.
Instead of engaging in the coach-bashing, listen to what is being said and take mental notes of it. You don’t need to defend your coach, but it is important to not be “against him.”
Remember as a leader, people will do the things you do well half as well and will do what you do poorly twice as poorly. So if you complain about your coach twice, they will do it four times. However, half of zero is zero--so if you don’t complain about your coach, and follow the other suggestions above, it won’t take long for your teammates to catch on, accept responsibility, understand coach is only trying to help them become the best players they can be and start working together as a team.
Instead of joining in the complaining, try talking to your coach and ask him how he’d have you handle the situation. There’s a good chance he or she doesn’t even know how the players feel. Or maybe it’s part of their plan to unite the team by being a villain. Although it may not be a great plan, it’s important for you as the captain to know where your coach is coming from.
Ask your coach for a half hour or so each week to share openly what you feel is going on with the team so you can stay on the same page moving forward.
5. Your teammates don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
No matter how great of a player you are, your teammates won’t follow you if they don’t believe you care about them.
Although it may not be obvious at first, the four steps listed above are all designed to establish you as someone who can demonstrate you care--you’re willing to do your best for them, you forgive them when they make mistakes, you won’t talk trash about them and you can communicate their concerns with your coach.
Here are two more concrete ways to establish great relationships with your teammates. Both will take a little time--probably more time than you feel like you have, but if you can find a way to make these things happen, you’ll create the kind of bond that lasts a lifetime and is capable of overcoming superior talent on the field.
The first recommendation is this--have dinner, or at least visit with as many of your teammates as possible in their homes. When we are young we have a tendency to believe everyone grows up just like us. By visiting someone in their home, you gain a much deeper appreciation for what their life is like after school and after practice.
Does your teammate have a strange, strong reaction you don’t understand when coach criticizes him? Maybe that’s because his dad does the same thing.
Have a teammate who always seems to put too much pressure on himself? Maybe his parents think his only chance of going to college is a football scholarship.
Visiting your teammates and their family in their home isn’t for the purpose of your changing someone’s family dynamics, it’s for increasing your level of understanding and empathy for them.
The second idea for bringing your teammates together is called a “packet party.” Set up a time for just you and your teammates to spend a night together--somewhere away from the distractions of school, dating and family responsibilities.
Before the party, come up with a packet you give to each person on your team (or if you’re on a big team--each person you have been chosen to lead). In this packet is a list of ten questions they are to think about or fill out before they come.
Some examples of questions would be:
1. Why do you play football?
2. Do you plan on going to college? Why or why not?
3. What has been the biggest disappointment you’ve faced so far?
4. What are some of the things that scare you the most about the upcoming season?
5. What do you want to be when you grow up? Why is that important to you?
6. What kind of things can you do nobody really knows about?
7. What’s something you’re really good at doing?
8. How can being a part of this team help you reach your goals?
These are all just examples, you can come up with your own list, but don’t shy away from the scary stuff. If your teammates know you can be trusted with knowing about parts of their lives nobody else knows about, they will certainly trust you to lead them to victory on the football field. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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If you’ll practice doing the five things on this list, you will be more than just a captain who can inspire his team to greater results, you’ll develop yourself into the kind of person people trust when it matters most. Football is a game most of us play for a few years, but with your leadership, it can be an experience you and your teammates remember and love for the rest of your lives.
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