What does your offense look like? Is it merely a collection of plays or is it a well-thought-out system of plays that has answers and adjustments for what a defense will do to your team? In this article, I want to offer a few ideas on how to design and develop an offense, whether it is a wide-open spread attack or an old-school smash mouth offense.
I believe you should be series oriented. By that I mean your offense should have three or four (at the most) series of plays that has three or four plays (that number is negotiable) that look alike. For example, the Wing-T’s Buck series at its base has three plays that look alike for several steps and seconds after the ball is snapped. There is the Buck, the FB Trap, and the Waggle. Many WT teams have added even more to this series, but these three staples are the foundation of the series.
Why is series football important? It gives the defense basically the same look but a different point of attack and it slows them down a little after the snap. A series or a group of plays run from the same formation allows a play-caller to see how the defense is reacting/defending a particular formation and post-snap movement by the offense. An offensive staff can detect what the defense is keying; the guards, the backs, and so on. Using series football also allows an offense to identify what the defense is giving you in order to stop your bread and butter play. A series of plays will also give the play-caller the ability to put a particular defender in conflict and use their technique against them. For example, identifying that a five technique defensive end squeezing down tight when the offensive tackle blocks down will give a play-caller helpful hints regarding what plays to call in certain situations.
What constituents a good series of plays? In my opinion, it is a group of plays that are run from the same, or at least very similar, formations and they all look alike to the defense immediately after the ball is snapped. Earlier I mentioned the Wing-T’s fabled Buck Series, but there are other examples from other offenses of series football and they all should have a minimum of these three characteristics.
1. A base play.
2. A counter or misdirection of some kind off the base play.
3. A play-action-pass off that base play.
This article was gathered automatically by our news bot. We help YouTubers by driving traffic to them for free. The featured image in this article is the thumbnail of the embedded video.
