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Inside the Clemson Offense: Sprint Draw and PA Option
Looking over the film of the games, I noticed this play and the various play-action passes based off of it when I was thinking it was isolation. This play looks very similar to the Iso when the FB leads up the middle. One way to distinguish the two is by the quarterback's opening footwork. If he...
Inside the Clemson offense: The Iso
Also known as the greatest play in football. Why? Because its simple. Its the 2nd play that is taught to kids learning football after the FB Dive. So then it stands to reason if its simple, its also one of the easiest to execute. I make no secret that I love I-formation running, and with a good...
Inside the Clemson offense: HB Power/Trap
Each week we're going to try to highlight one or two specific plays that either resulted in scores or were run very often by the team. This week, since Clemson showed so much I-formation running for the first time in years, we'll go over the HB Power and the Trap. Since we havent covered offensive...
Inside the Clemson offense: Spiller's TD Play,Pro Wing X Over
Here we have a breakdown of the TD play to CJ Spiller last week. The PlayIn this "Ace X Over" or "Pro Wing X over" play, the number one receiver (X) runs inside to a deep post over the top to exploit the defensive coverage. X is normally the first QB read on the play, and is meant to draw the FS...
Defensive breakdowns against TCU: inverted veer option
Chris at Smartfootball got hold of the clip we uploaded for the TCU game review, and looked at the variation of the zone read that TCU ran against us last weekend here. Thankfully it saves me a couple hours of writing. ...Against TCU, however, in an otherwise solid defensive effort the Tigers...
Inside the Clemson Offense: Reasons to go No-Huddle
Over the spring and August camp, all we heard was that the offense was running mostly no-huddle, yet we have seen fairly little of it so far this year. This is because of execution problems: you dont want to go no-huddle and go 3&out, and put your defense back out there without a rest. The best...
Inside the Clemson Offense: 34/35 Zone
The bread and butter run play of the Spence, as well as most one-back, system is the zone rushing play. There are several to pick from but here we'll describe a brief introduction to zone blocking itself, then the specific play.Why do teams run a zone scheme? -Adapts to defenses that like to stunt...
Miami: Mark Whipple and the West Coast Offense
What is the West Coast offense? Emphasis on balanced football from traditional pro-sets and structure. Generally, alot of passing in the 1st half for quick scores sets up the run in the 2nd to protect an early lead, but the run game is still important. Overall it's a very detail-oriented...
The Passing Game in a Zone-Blocking Offense
Why have we seen/heard so little of the deep pass during the preseason? The answer lies partly in the injury to Denarius Moore (which reduced the number of deep-threat receivers), but is fundamentally rooted in the zone blocking scheme of the rushing offense that the Tennessee Volunteers now...
Husker Offensive Line Must Dictate To Defense
“We want to be able to play physical football in Nebraska. We want to be able to run the football when we want to and not let people dictate to us but dictate to the defense what we want to do, and impose our will on the opposing team.” — Pelini, on his offensive philosophy. In...
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