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Flexbone Offense (Coaching Guide With 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 (Coaching Guide With 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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T Formation Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

By Coach 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.

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Wishbone Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

By Coach 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.

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Wildcat Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

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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Spread Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

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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West Coast Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

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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Pro Style Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

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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Air Raid Offense (Coaching Guide With Images)

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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