Run and Shoot Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

The Run and Shoot offense was first made popular in the 1970s with Darrel “Mouse” Davis and his Portland State football teams.

His version of the offense was very simplified, in that it contained only three running plays and five passing plays.

Instead of having multiple plays that could be run, the offense instead created variations off those plays to take advantage of the specific situation and the specific defense that the opposing team was running on a play.

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Triple Option Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

There was a time in college football when the majority of teams would run some form of the Triple Option offense.

As recently as the 1980s, a good number of teams were still running a form of the Triple Option offense, which at times is called the Wishbone formation.

As the game developed, and younger kids began to get bigger and stronger by the time they arrived on college campuses, though, more teams started getting away from an offense predicated around the Triple Option being the main mode of attack.

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Veer Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

The Veer Offense is more so an offensive philosophy than it is a specific formation out of which multiple plays are run.

In essence, the Veer is an option running play that offenses mostly at the high school — but sometimes at the collegiate — level use to keep defenses off balance.

Like other option plays, the Veer is used to create deception by giving the offense multiple choices for who the ball carrier may be on any given play.

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Football Positions Explained (Offensive, Defensive, Special Teams)

By Coach Martin | Football Basics

Unlike a lot of other sports, it’s rather difficult to understand all the various football positions on a team.

While there are only 11 players on each team on the field at any one time, there are three distinct “units” for each football team:

(1) The Offense, (2) The Defense, (3) Special Teams

This means that there are 33 different football positions — or slight variations of positions — throughout a game.

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Pistol Formation Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

The Pistol formation is an offense that marries two other types of offenses together to make a new hybrid type of offense.

The Pistol is a combination between the traditional Spread Offense run out of the shotgun formation and the Pro Style offense, which has two running backs lined up in various positions in the backfield.

The Pistol formation has the look of a run-heavy offense, but it can also utilize some of the principles of the certain Spread Offenses to be more “pass happy.”

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I-Formation Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

The I-Formation Offense is a great offensive formation that has been, and still can be, used at just about any level of football.

It’s an offense that is designed to overpower the defense at the line of scrimmage by overloading “the box.”

Most of the time, an I-Formation offense will be deployed with a tailback and fullback, as well as at least one tight end.

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Flexbone Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

In today’s football game, most offenses are enamored with the pass.

If you turn on the TV to watch a professional or collegiate football game, you’ll often see spread offenses, shotgun offenses, and other formations that are designed to spread the field and throw the ball more than run.

There are still some offenses, though, that are designed almost exactly opposite — and one of them is the Flexbone offense.

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Double Wing Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Offense

The double-wing offense is one of the more popular offensives run at the youth level of football because of its heavy run tendencies.

However, the double-wing offense can be utilized at higher levels of football in some form.

This is especially true in run-heavy, short-yardage situations, where the offense wants to grind out a few tough yards on the ground.

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What is an Illegal Shift in Football? (The Rule Explained)

By Coach Martin | Football Basics

In football, as in any sport, there are some easy-to-understand rules and some not-so-easy-to-understand rules. The “illegal shift” falls into the latter category. Not many people truly understand what an illegal shift in football is, why the rule is in place, and how referees can spot the infraction. However, one thing is for certain… It’s easy to understand how […]

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4-4 Defense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

By Coach Martin | Football Defense

The 4-4 defense is one of the more popular defensive alignments among youth football teams.

That is because this defensive formation allows players at each and every level of the field to learn valuable experience at their position.

And possibly also learn techniques for their future experience, if they end up changing positions based on their developing size and skills.

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