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Coaching Run and Shoot Football

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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 Took for receivers on each conversion, The argument can sill be ‘made tht the offense is successful because it features great quarter Backs. Every football fan knows Neil Lomax, Jim Kelly and Andre ‘Ware, Each hae piled up impressive statistics as a Run-and Shoot passer. And, although these Run-and.Shoot passers have done well ‘Guarterbacking other passing philosophies, they have not met the ‘degree of success they experienced in Coach Daviss Run-and- ‘Shoot. This conclusion suggests that the current Run-and-Shoot philosopiy has serious meni for today’s passing game. "As most of the earlier Run-and Shoot disciples grew out of “Tiger” Ellison’ book, today’ Rur-and-Shoot leaders nave evolved. from thair contact with Coach Davis. Infact the attack has grown. so popular today that the newer adaptations have filtered ll the way Upto the NFL. As the fit Run-and-Shoot devotees Lept Elion’ ‘Suniuulogy,toays users tend to keep Davies terminology Like many coaches uring Run-and-Shoot, we have contributed very lite to the attack. We borrowed many ofthe ideas introduced by Davis and Ellison and added them to our offensive philosophy. ‘This bock explains the principles, techniques, and methods we have ‘used over the part decade to adapt Run-and-Shcot into our offenses, ‘Weave been pleated withthe results this theory has added to ‘our attack, Inthe 1980s we Fielded five championship teams at four Aiferen: schools (ewo high schools and two colleges). Ateach school four ruming-game philosophies were kept intact, while the Run- fnd:-Shoot passing package was merged with our running and play- action pass thinking “The intent ofthis book is nt to persuade you to abandon your present offense, but to explore the possibilities the Ren-and-Shoot. ‘an offer to enance it- We suggest You read the book wth an open ‘mind and then, after you have finished, consider what aspects could it into your offensive thinking. Within the parameters of this ‘premise the offensive concepts and descriptions are generic. Your {cams wdeout may bea flanker or split end, the insidereceiver may. ‘bea tight end orslotback. For simplicity, players will net be referred. to by specific positions, but by their location across the fet. Likewise, we have used this passing concept from many back. field sets using one back, I, aplitbacks, no backs, double sot, and SEERA anne eng ion any atch can ce in tut-and-Shoot formations. Again, for reading simplicity this book ‘tela the singleset back 4 fullback and be wl usualy be shown behind the quarterback Acknowledgments ‘We could no: have had a successful Run-and-Shoot passing attack without the help of many other coaches. First and foremost was the invaluable help given us by “Mouse” Davis, June Jones, and the players of the Denver Gold ofthe old USFL on the coaching points and techniques needed to make this attack work. Alo, the expertise of James Barresi (now at Penn Stat), who formerly was involved wiih this concept in the Canadian Football League, and Bill Hart (cow at WestCiester Universiy) who worked with tis attack while aL Boston University 1 would lke to thank Head Coach Bill Manlove for granting me the freedom to implement this passing concept at Widener University ard also Head Coach Dr Gene Carpenter, who gave me the opportunity to employ some these concepts at Millersville University. While at these two fine schools, with strong football \waditions, the cumulative record was 45-16-1 with two post-season playoff appearances. Obviously, Run-and.Shoot concepts were not "he only reason these schools won, but the record shows that they did not hurt these quality programs have een fortunate to work with two gifted quarterback ‘coaches—Ken O'Brien at Widener and Brad Mangle-at Millers ‘ille—who added much to the concepts of the pasting stack, 1am also grateful to the fine quarterbacks who did the work on the field and made this passing scheme work. They taught us as ‘much about what was good and not so good as we taught them about Run-and-Shoot passing. At the high school level, Pat Cail, ‘Duane Tools, and Brian Kauflinan; atthe university level, Dan Guy, : 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 bits, which is man for man with no free safety. (See Diagram 1-2.) We are aware that defenses may ply combina Gategorizing defenses is important to the evolution ofthe Run- and-Shoot plays: Once we idemfy the coverage, the concept of proper vertical and horizontal stretches comes into play. The princ ple here isto use three receivers to stretch the defense beyond its abity to adequately cover the receivers. One receiver will go either wide or deep to stretch the zone, and the other two will work the ‘opposite perimeters of an isolated defender’ zone, forcing him to ‘make a decision. ‘When attacking man coverage, several players may be used to lear an area so the primary receiver will have the maximum amount of room to run avay from the defender assigned him, The basic Run-and-Shoot offense has two plays that evolve {rom trips formation. Two are developed from the balanced set, one of whichis run to the sivong side and one run to the weak side. TThere is also one play designed to attack the single-ecever side of the defemte ‘There are three basi running plays, though you may not con- sider them runs. The screen, shovel and trap are used when the defense overcompensates in a particular area, ‘We have found that the option-running game complements ‘Run-and-Shoot passing very well, and the action-pasing game off {he option fis in easily with Runand-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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