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We use slide motion to kickout the DE with the wing toward a backset and the SE in a snug alignment. Its one of our best plays. We use the same look to run HB toss. Way better block than belly iso/down out of double wing in my experience. Another team in our state does similar with a jet motion and fake. Also great with QB in Gun

Last season we ran alot of gun off-tackle sweep and had a young HB who was talented but had a hard time reading when to bounce (we really hammer the 90 degree cut to cut-back on that play.) So we started tagging sweeps "Jet" when we wanted him to bounce. We only ran it out of snug/nasty trips formations to the wing. Because it was slower we would block sweep from the wing back to account for blitz and run through, the snug/nasty and the split-out blocker would block jet (#2 & #3 outside count) and the HB would run a jet path. It was a good changeup that worked well for our young back and will remain part of our system. vs. a 9 tech we would also pull our outside tackle from East/West Trips formations. Also, Check out Kenny Simpson's Gun T "Trojan" Sweep. Coach E has shared this no motion jet under center out of bear and bull.

We use wristbands and number the plays 00-05,10-15, up to 55 so they can be signaled with fingers on one hand and a fist being 0. If we use more than 1 sheet we have a signal for the second sheet. We usually use 2 bands, one for tempo that everyone has a copy of and one that only the QB has. We put common tags on the margin in colors so we can tag a play "23 black" We have one coach signal formations separately to the huddle while the QB is getting the play signaled in by another coach. We can signal plays from either band to the QB in the huddle so there are no duplicates and we don't use formation verbiage in the huddle. When we go tempo we have a set formation or two that is verbally signaled along with the play # on the tempo band, this formation often changes week to week based on gameplan and is usually the formation we like the best. We usually have our base plays on the tempo band unless they don't fit that formation for the week. We also have a small 2 minute package that is all verbal signals, a 3 play sequence that is triggered with a one word verbal signal (we can also call any of those 3 with the signal and "1" "2" or "3" and usually we put those 3 in the margin of the tempo band as well), and occasional one word calls for specials etc. We also run certain plays on certain counts, which are on the band so our snap count is varied naturally.

We've dabbled, majored, moved away, and come back to the Gun. Lots of good reasons to use it. There's lots of ways to keep your QB out of the run game. You can run it out of the pistol in red/blue sets. move your back around, use motion runs, same side runs to back etc. We always refer to the shotgun as "Pandora's Box" because there's so many options you can outcoach yourselves easily. I kind of prefer the offset back and giving the defense a tendency that you can exploit their adjustments to, single wing style. If you move in and out, I've found its best to keep footwork and backfield action as consistent as possible. Belly, Sweep, Jet, Rocket, etc. are all great out of gun if you make the right adjustments. Trap is tough and hits slower no matter what but can still work vs. the right look. We ran it with an offset back. The QB steps up to meet the snap, turns 90 degrees to the back who shuffles directly behind the center and then dives. I would add that a slow QB can be pretty effective running sweep because he doesn't (cant) outrun his blockers. This may not be a homerun threat but can still be effective in the right spots. If your QB can stay on the field as a blocker or as a threat to catch a hitch or slant, that allows you to move in and out of wildcat sets with base personnel, especially if your wildcat QB can throw a simple one read pass (or can just get it to your normal QB for a double pass), which lets you have that +1 run game when you need it.

I think I can see it, but could you draw this up? Did you ever run it back to the weakside?

Youve run handback from shotgun with the playside guard pulling away coach?

We do run that. Its a great play. We also run this scheme with a slot or wing in motion as the kickout. We see less double A now that we are multiple in our formations, but we do see it now and then. The more common issue is the BSILB cross-blitzing to strong A when X pulls. We have counters and adjustments, but if we get caught in it when we pull both Gs its often a negative play. Id love to hear other ideas.

We've been a big gun buck team in the past and brought it back this year. The double A and blitzing BSILB was a problem in the gun without the FB to fill. Our solution has been to just pull BSG to block force, and block down with C and PSG as our base. We use formations to account for PSILB. If we get our TE and Wing covered then we either go Nasty, unbalance like coach E Suggests^^ or run b-gap trap. We haven't had much success running a-gap trap out of gun except vs. specific looks like a 4-3. We run it the same UC if we are running a lot of Gun. I know more teams are protecting their gun Buck with a backside RPO to hold BSILB. That's outside our wheelhouse but if anyone runs that successfully id love to learn about that.

Weve gone all Gun, all UC. and mixed. In my experience the best way to mix the two is to start UC and have a few plays that you can run UC or in the Gun without changing blocking or adding plays.

We run belly to the offset fullback and QB bellysweep and QB powersweep to the offset. Short motion FB rockets are also a good way to keep defense from shifting presnap to the offset.

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You could do either off Jet for sure. We've run XW and XZ off of Belly/Down. We dont run criss-cross but ive seen YW criss-cross off of Buck action and XW criss-cross off of Power.

We've won several games with a RB pass off of screens like this^^

We false pull playside G on no mo rockets early in games when teams are guard readers. Its a 1 for 1 trade on playside block and puts doubt in kids heads about their reads. We also sucker most of our traps.