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y WN COACHING mate ae wp eu qs! 3 caer 8 90 e150 twtr ncbtteramrd te arto ie e Blocking Schemes ° Complamentary Offense 0 (ne-Back Running Game " Merging Run-and.Shoot with Play-Action Passing 2 ‘Training the Sill People ‘GLOSSARY Route Explanation 758 a1 97 Introduction every league had at Teast one ight ‘out of his book. The basic principe ofthe attack was “run whete {hey aren't.” This revolutionary concept was a sigificant change from the numbered or named routes thet counted steps and did not vary asthe coverage change to the forefront again in the began piling up huge passing iss version of the Run-and-Shoot had attack, Receiver routes le the muliple running fewer physical demande were refes to the singleset back a fullback, and he wi shovn behind the quarterback. philosopay has serious meri ing game of the earlier Runvand-Shoot disciples grew out of so popular today thatthe newer ad ‘upto the NFL. AS the first Run-and terminology, today$ users tend to keep Ds Tike many coaches using Rur-and-Sh bea tg end or lotback. ie postions, bt by thei reading simpli Acknowledgments ‘We could no: have had a successful Run-and-Shoot passing attack without the telp of many other coaches. First and foremost did not hurt these quality prog: T have been fortu passing fine quarterbacks who did : Acwowiecemante Glenn Bennet, Joc Bakey, Steve Cianci, Brett Stover, and Chris Fagan were the men who engineered us through much of the las decade "inal, L would like to thank Coach Mike Rice defensive staff for his efforts i editing thi book a Pare it for publication, A Theory ry adage 12 Shoot es, whl ereatng ind iches and forcing defenders to lose leverage ave a numerical advantage tothe strong. If the defense removes a player from the ‘They are: three-deep zone, two-deep zone, man-for-man coverage with one or two free safeties, and blitz, whi ‘Categorizing defen and-Shoot plays: Once ‘opposite perimeters of an isolated defender’ zone, forcing him to ‘make a decision ‘When attacking man coverage, several players may be used to clear an area so the primary receiver will have the maximum assigned him, and-Shoot offense has two plays “Two are developed from the balanced se, the trong side and one run to the weak side. "There is also one play designed to attack the single-ecever side of the defense ‘There are three basic running plays, though you may not con- rider them runs. The screen, shovel defense overcompensats in pa ‘game complements jon-passing game off {he option fis easily with Run-and-Shoot passing." 2 Run-and-Shoot Techniques Recognition of the various coverages and blitzes is critical to the success of Run-and.Shook ‘coverages, and many stretching the defense ze} other dues wo warn us of zone or man ‘coverage. Some opponents will have their cornerbacks position ‘themseles diferenty when playing man, They have a tendency to F F c Daas c eee ere COC80CO oO ° Ss ° 0 rand Shoot Techie 0-----0 align inside the wide reecivers if they don't have irside help. They. also may align closer to the line of scrimmage in.man coverage and. their eye cantact may be centered more on the receiver than on the. ‘quarterback. Any oF all of these clues may be gleaned from the ‘Scouting report ‘Once man coverage is recor three timesin rapid succession. From ‘ofthe ottensive unit will respond to a maa or . imardshaot Thane snandshot moras ee F “Zone Coverage ‘When running routes into a zone the receiver wants to find a window" the defenders, This means that he shoul try to ‘the short defenders and not give him aclear view ofthe O---0 RECEIVER PRINCIPLES FOR ATTACKING MAN AND ZONE COVERAGES {he receiver which way to pivot after the cate, Man Coverage USING MOTION To CONTROL THE DEFENSE ‘There ate three motions used in the Run-and-Shoot attack. All ‘deep should give the ceiver running a stort route cept several years ago. In ppretentation he explained how body lean isa Key ingzei itusion running, When going deep the head is down and the arms pump hard. Wien running short route the upper body leans back fo change the center of gravity prior tothe break. After much prac fice a combination of these concepts can give the welkprepared reccver the sep advantage he needs to get ope. Fullback Alignments and Motions When the fullback goes in ‘motion either strong or weak Fullback 3 tackle to tackle. He need not ah By moving the fullback around snd pu teams that play man-nder coverages are adjustment problems. As you can see in Diagram 2°, they have no linebackers to handle the quarterback

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