FLY OFFENSE

DEFENSES DO NOT LIKE THE FOLLOWING:

Motion Shifting No Huddle Deception—Teams that Hide the Football Unbalanced Formations Players in Space—1 on 1 tackling

4 GAPS

A GAP—C--G B GAP—G--T C GAP—T--TE D GAP—TE—Sideline(biggest gap to defend). Money play is the sweep.

Gene Beck invented. Phil Moss taught to Speckman.

WHY FLY?

No Book On It—people don't understand it Adaptable to any offense Adaptable to any personnel Not a precision offense—very forgiving Doesn't demand a lot from linemen for successful plays Opponents only have 1 week to prepare Is team oriented—even “stars” must fake and it builds character Has a progression Helps all parts of passing game—simplifies protections Deception is a lost art in football Create an image

HALLMARKS OF CHAMPIONSHIP OFFENSES

Eliminate turnovers Eliminate sacks—protect QB Have ability to be balanced (Run, Pass, Field) Stop the swarm Get ball into space Score points against any defensive scheme Cause defense to play vanilla

WILLIAMETTE U. OFFENSIVE PHILOSOPHY Deception “Even a dead man can fake” Difficult to key one player

Difficult to simulate in practice Logical progression—must stop sweep Simplicity within complexity—Few plays/lots of formations Fun

THE SWEEP Key play-Hallmark of Fly Offense Many ways to run from many formations Red Light—Designed to cut it up. You run this when they give TE a 7 technique and wide 9

technique. This is Power in the Single Wing. Yellow Light (Read TE, 1st to teach?). If you see the butt, then cut up.....When in doubt, then

take it out. Play breaks down when the TE does not give you a read. 5 Technique is really the only problem technique. Base way is for all OL to get to 2nd level. When you run it out of 2 backs, the HB is a deceptor. 1 back, then QB is deceptor.

Green Light—Designed to get outside. Sweep to the #'s. The only way we don't sweep to the #'s is because #2 (force player) boxes and makes us cut up inside.

FORMATIONS (4 Edges)--Design 3 sweeps for each edge TE (no flanker) Red, Yellow, Green TE w/ flanker Red, Yellow, Green No TE, just SE Red, Yellow, Green 2 WR's Red, Yellow, Green Pro's & Con's to eachUnbalanced can create another edge

TEACHING OFFENSIVE STRUCTURE (Don't talk about plays) Backs = Paths OL = Rules Concepts = WR's

SWEEPER TERMINOLOGY –aim 1 YD behind QB Approach--4th Gear Mesh Slide Step Catch—outside hip of Back Set up Block—have a plan