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Casey Jones: So I know that you’ve seen on television and college. West Virginia,
University of Florida, Missouri, running to spread offenses and a lot of
high schools are going to it but maybe you’re thinking about putting it in
for your 11 and 12 year old but your just not sure how. Today, we’re
going to go very rudimentary and gave you a couple of the basics of the
spread offense and if you like it, we’ll come back and do some more
shows later on, kind of what we’re doing here lately we’re going to take a
couple of these different offenses that you may not know a lot about and
just give you the basics so today spread offense 101 on Clubhouse Gas.
Coach thank you so much for joining us.
Matt: (Coach Matt Petersen) Yeah.
Casey: Well tell me about the spread offense and how you use different
formations to get what you’re looking for. First and foremost take us
through the spread offense with any offense the terminology is important
so identify for us who these guys are and what their position is called?
Matt: We’ll start outside in. We got a Z receiver who’s going to be kind of our
outside guy more of our more athletic type guys can run the deep post but
also catch the screen. Coming out of the back field we have an F Back.
He’s going to be predominantly more like a tailback type position. We
have our Y receiver which traditionally you would see as a tied in type
receiver. Quarterback, you know at this you have your H Back which
should be more of a full back type position and then the X which is
another kind of like he’s the athletic guy who can catch screens and catch
a deep ball.
Casey: Alright so you are telling me that a lot of this offense has a lot to do with
formations. Take me through a couple of the formations real quick?
Matt: Well you can run the good thing about it is an advantage because you run
the same play of several different looks which makes it tougher on a
defensive coordinator. You know one of the plays we like to run when the
screen plays, we would like to run as very success for us is a 41 right so
set up a screen right here and what I’m going to do is run the same play
out of three different formations just to give you some look.
So run 41, this is out of our empty set which means we’ve got nobody in
the back field but the quarterback.
Player: Go!
Casey: That was a block out.
Matt: Basically, we’re blocking the corner. We’re blocking whatever strong
safety line back that they have here and it’s a tunnel screen to the inside.
Now we don’t have our lineman here too but we’ll also pull two linemen
out there too, to seal it off in the outside or trouble we might have.
Casey: Alright that’s your 41 out of—
Matt: Empty set, now get an ace set as set we can run the same play.
Casey: Now is this tied in on— is he tied in on the tackle?
Matt: No, he’s off he’s spread out now so it’s kind of spread look so we’re
trying to extend their defense. Go ahead.
Player: Go!
Matt: And you can also run that out of maybe you want to write it out of a tied in
look so run it out a heavy but we might have two tight ends in and a lot of
times you’re looking at two tight ends. You might be thinking, run and
we’ll throw a screen out and double block it as well.
Casey: Alright so that’s the same screen, the three different formations. What
about your running aim how does the different formations affect your
running game?
Matt: Well as far as running game goes you know traditionally in the spread and
anything that you see now on the pros and in college is a lot of zone and
zone blocking. We feel that zone is a important part of the offense but we
also like to run traditional down hill stuff. Blast, isolations, wedge plays,
and you could do that out of a single back or double back. Line up in blue,
line up in blue and if we just want to run a you know what we call a 24
eyes which our H back our two back through the four whole just right a 24
eyes and we’re trying to isolate our linebacker with a lead back.
Player: Go!
Matt: So you could run some of the old school people call it traditional type
plays.
Casey: Power plays.
Matt: Power blast, we’re not going to link ourselves in to just running you know
a zone play and be limited to zone play.
Casey: Now much does having an athletic quarterback make your job easier?
Matt: It was a huge advantage especially you know when you’re in a spread
situation and things deteriorate down field you know you’re sitting back in
the zone if you got a guy that can take off and run it’s a huge advantage
because you know you’re getting your defense spread out.
Casey: Now you talk about changing formations to give you the match ups that
you might want maybe get a mismatch and get your best offensive threat
against maybe one of there—
Matt: A lot of that comes to game planning, you know one of our favorite plays;
we got a big Y receiver. Hey run a, you know maybe when you get him
isolated on a fade route. We want motion or Z over come on over and
Zach. Now we got a one on one over with our Y. We might— we’re
talking about a kid here who’s 6’3’’/ 6’4” 220 we got him singled out.
Casey: On the corner.
Matt: Uh-huh, so a lot of that comes with film and game planning.
Casey: And so that was what I was going to ask you can you not only use. Do not
only use information but also motions and ships?
Matt: Oh yeah a lot of motions a lot of ships. I’ll tell you one of our more
successful plays. Line up an empty and run an H Jet sweep. Anytime you
got some guys with some speed who might bring this guy in motion right
here and run a little jet sweep to the outside down block it’s on the edge.
You know once again extending the defense east and west and then
coming back north and south with some ISOs or some blast plays.
Casey: That’s a lot of great information coach. We know it’s a very huge offense
and there’s light going on but maybe some of these coaches can get a
better idea about what’s going on at the youth level fixing these tings out.
Matt: And you know one thing that’s an advantage always play to the
personality that you have. You know if you got a good guy in the back
field you know don’t think just because you’re in a spread that you’re
locked in to throwing the ball. You know throwing the ball is the key
component to it. Screens are important but don’t be afraid to run the ball
as well.
Casey: West Virginia has proved that over the years with Rich Rodriguez set him
out and run the football.
Matt: Definitely.
Casey: Alright coach thank you so much I would like you to come back and join
us again.
Matt: Definitely, I appreciate it.
Casey: That’s what we’ve been doing for us today we’ll see you right back here
next time for another great edition of Clubhouse Gas.
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