Category Archives for "Football Offense"

Veer Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.

Pistol Formation Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.”

I-Formation Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.

Flexbone Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.

Double Wing Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.

T Formation Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

The T Formation is one of the most popular offenses for youth football teams to run.

Because these youth football teams like to run the football more than they pass the football due to the lack of strength a quarterback usually has to throw the football…

The T Formation is a great way to have an offense that teaches these young players how to play the game, while keeping the defense off balance in the meantime.

Wishbone Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach Martin|Football Offense

The Wishbone offense was one of the most popular offensive formations in the 1970s and 1980s, especially in college football.

The offense gets its name because of how the players are lined up in the backfield.

Wildcat Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.

Spread Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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.

West Coast Offense Football Coaching Guide (Includes Images)

ByCoach 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 […]