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I'm watching coach Elrod's short yardage clinic and I have two questions. 1. When running Inside Belly/Blast, will it work with the QB reverse pivoting to make it look more like Belly? 2. With regard to blocking rules, can Belly DoDo be run with "On-to-Down" blocking rules for the 4 man-surface? Thanks in advance for all responses. As always Coach Elrod, your ideas are fantastic. Believe I used your brain for close to 20 years, lol. Thank you!!

If we we were to maintain a TE/Wing, we would... *run check with me at the LOS and run at the weaker DT. *shift/or not shift to get the weaker DT to the TE side. *run Gut, Power, and Power Sweep. *play action the Safety screaming downhill.

Fell asleep on the job, lol. Sorry for the late response. We installed it in 2018. It looked great, and it worked when we ran it. However, we weren't in the gun much. We had success UC and didn't want to overburden the offense and ruin a good thing. Stepped down in the winter/spring of 2019 to spend more time with my own kids, so didn't have a chance to give it another go (which I would have because the next QB in line was a good runner.)

All the best.

Full speed out of the huddle, no motion Rocket.

Those sound like FB Belly steps. I would think that footwork would be too slow for kicking out on Power, jmo.

Full speed out of the huddle, no motion Rocket.

Our staff always did an overnight to one of the Glazier clinics. I always made sure a wing person was speaking. Got to listen to a ton of good wing coaches. Also made sure there was something for my defensive guys.

Trap has a lot of moving parts, and it's a great play behind speed motion. Like many have stated, there are so many factors when it comes to making trap successful. We feel the 2 most important things are, the speed of the FB and eliminating the ILBs.

Coaches, Thanks for the kind words. Appreciate it.

Same. No Buck for us, just Belly Sweep. It's our best no motion play.

Our team this year was a bunch of over-achievers. We played up a class due to a lack of schools of similar size. We battled, stayed reasonably healthy, and made a run to the State Championship game. Unfortunately for us, the state championship game didn't go our way, but still very proud of our boys. They were consistently over-matched strength and size wise, but it didn't stop them from getting the job done. Strongly believe this is partially/greatly attributed to the Hybrid Wing-T and all the ideas that we stole from this site. Thank you!!!

Our 3/4 team runs 6 plays... Jet, Redlight, Jet Boot and Belly, Belly Sweep, Belly pass.

We always have some warm up rounds, then we have a single elimination tournament. I sort of seed them without telling them.

Sumo... *2 offensive linemen line up an arms distance across from each other. *On cadence, they both perform a correct right shoulder "on" block vs each other. *The winner drives the opposition back and out of the ring. (No cutting, turning, or throwing your opponent. You must drive the other guy straight back.) *Works on shoulder skills, beating the freeze, finish, and heart.

One way we attempt to do this is with competitive drills.. For example, on offense, once a week, we do a competitive tournament style drill for each position group. OL do the Sumo Drill, the RBs do the Double Reach Drill, the SEs do the 20 Sec. Drill, and the QBs do the Garbage Can Drill. Each winner gets the Championship belt to keep for the week (bought plastic WWE wrestling belts at Walgreens.) Kids love it.

RIP, Coach Moore.

I think kids are either tough or they're not. However, we feel giving them live reps early in the year prepares them for what they're going to see. During our Rocket Drill in the summer, we put our best OLB, Corner, ILB, and Safety in the drill. We have live blocking and 2-hand touch on the ball carrier. We try to give the blockers/BC as many scenarios as possible. Works for us.

Very glad to hear!

As Always Coach Wright, we appreciate your help.

Coach, Thank you for the response. It's very much appreciated. That being said, this question doesn't come from part 1 of our breakdown/game plan. Don't believe we've "put the cart before the horse." We've looked at returning personnel, we've charted their alignment to certain formations, charted tendencies, etc....I do like the idea of charting the B.S. safety. We're going to use that;) Anyway, this question is about slanting D-linemen and plays/schemes that have worked best. If you have some, we'd love to hear about them.

We are facing a well schooled 50 defense this coming season. They Slant/Angle their front on most plays. We have a ton of film on them, but nothing with them facing a Hybrid Wing-T. We can only take an educated guess as to how they'll slant their front vs us. Anyway, with your offense in mind, 2 questions... 1. What do you feel works best when a front slants to your TE/Wing side? 2. What do you feel works best when a front slants to your SE/Slot side? Of course, please don't limit your answers to Red/Blue Formation. If there's a formation that you feel is krytonite to this defense...please clue me in.

There's a Boot in there as well.

Thank you. A lot of food for thought.

We primarily use a reach scheme, but we use an X block scheme vs. certain looks.