By Coach Martin | Football Plays
Your team is losing with only seconds left in the game, and only a touchdown will win you the game or tie it up.
What do you do?
You call for every receiver you have to run straight downfield to the end zone.
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
There are times when the play the coach calls isn’t a great fit for how the defense actually lines up.
At other times, there may be a good opportunity to take advantage of a mismatch based on how both teams line up.
In these instances, the quarterback (“QB”) can do what’s called an ‘audible’.
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
In football, a touchdown is actually worth 6 points.
It’s easy to think it’s worth 7 points – since it is what normally appears on the scoreboard after the kicker converts a point after.
However, that’s an often misunderstood aspect of the game.
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By Coach Martin | Football Drills
The big boys on the offensive line will often dictate how successful a football team’s offense is.
The quarterback and other skill position players get a lot of the credit, but none of what they do would be possible if the offensive line didn’t perform well.
The offensive line has the fairly straightforward responsibility of protecting the skill players on the team. This includes opening up holes for the running game and keeping the quarterback enough time to throw on passing plays.
And coaches play a crucial role in teaching them how to be outstanding football players.
So, here are 5 drills to help your offensive linemen build their strength, speed, and stamina, as well as teach them effective blocking methods and tricks for protecting skill players on their offense.
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By Coach Martin | Football Offense
The Wing T offense is a formation that not a lot of defensive coaches and teams are used to seeing.
It is not a traditional base offense in the sense that it has one tight end, one running and multiple wide receivers on the field.
At the same time, it does not have the “big” personnel that some other run-heavy formations such as the Single-Wing and Double-Wing offenses have.
Instead, the Wing T offense is a hybrid of them both.
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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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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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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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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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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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