By Coach Martin | Football Offense
The Wildcat Offense burst onto the professional scene about 10 years ago.
The Miami Dolphins were playing the vaunted New England Patriots in 2008, and running back Ronnie Brown lined up as the quarterback, running all sorts of misdirection and confusion plays to keep the Patriots’ solid defense guessing.
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
The spread offense is one of the most popular offensive formations used nowadays at the collegiate and professional levels of football.
With coaches at all levels seeing the various benefits of the spread offense, it’s starting to trickle its way down to high school, and to even less experienced levels of football as well.
The spread offense today isn’t just one basic formation for a team with a specific set of skills that runs plays in a specific set of ways.
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
The West Coast offense derives its name from the location where its creator made his name. Bill Walsh actually created the offense as the quarterbacks coach and play caller for the Cincinnati Bengals in the late 1960s. Walsh became known as one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time after leading the San Francisco 49ers (and […]
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
Pro Style offenses are named after the level of play where they are most often run… At the NFL level or with collegiate teams who have a similar personnel and skillsets with that of a typical professional team. The reason for this is that Pro Style offenses are generally more complex and take more skill to run […]
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
In the mid-1980s, the college football offensive landscape was built around running the football. Sure, some teams with strong-armed quarterbacks would run some type of Pro Style offense, with their passer standing tall in the pocket… But the majority of plays were still in the running game. In fact, there were still plenty of college teams at this […]
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
The single-wing offense was one of the first true offensive formations in American football. It was created by the legendary Pop Warner. (That’s the same Pop Warner that youth football leagues around the country were named after.) This offense dominated offensive playbooks of teams at every level of football for many years. Then, slowly by surely, the single-wing offense […]
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