I want to thank everyone for all the viewings yesterday, we hit an all time high in e-mail subscribers! Keep on making comments and contributing to this project we are committed to making this a great resource for football coaches & serious fans. I am continuing with the 3rd part of Seven segments on the Triple Shoot Offense…
Triple Shoot Offense – Run Game
This aspect of the offense is broken up into the Belly series, Trap series and Dive series. Our linemen work daily on their zone, veer, trap and double team blocks in order to maximize our consistency in rushing the ball.
The primary series of the offense is the Belly series, which is influenced by triple option (Hambone) and zone blocking. This was also complimented by a backfield action that I was able to glean from “Dutch” Meyers book, Spread Formation Football (albeit, he did this out of the shotgun) and some basic Wing-T concepts. The Belly series consists of the Pop Out (I have heard it also called the Jet or Fly Sweep) and the Belly Play. The key in executing each of these aspects of the Belly series is in the actual “ride” of the motion receiver by the QB and the subsequent fake or hand-off to the Superback, in order to draw attention to the potential Pop Out around the edge or the dive play to the back. Ideally, our Pop Out and Belly plays will look the same for the first 3 steps and then become the actual play called prior to the snap of the ball. There are various change-up plays that are designed to take advantage of fast-flowing linebackers and defensive line slants.
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February 24, 2010 at 8:28 AM
The Belly play is very intreging as it not only freezes the D on the perimiter but will put the A Gap defender in a mental state of hesitation, especially if he is undisciplined or playing a vertical scheme.
February 24, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Pop out play diagram did not download. Any suggestions as to why?
February 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Let me check on this, you are the only one that has commented on that. I will get right back to you on that….
Manny
Thanks for getting onboard. You insights in the future will be very helpful, keep them coming.
February 24, 2010 at 10:16 AM
In my opinion the single greatest “series concept” in all of football. The deception and attack angles are a thing of beauty. I have enjoyed coaching this system and going up and down the field with the Popout and Belly – then once the defense starts to over-commit hitting the homerun with the play-pass. The best thing about this series is the fact that it forces defenses to prepair for so much more than just the run and shoot pass principles. Making it a true nightmare for a defensive staff to compile a solid gameplan to eliminate all phases of the offense. I have always loved the fact that this series uses some option blocking schemes and veer angles without relying on the qb to make a triple option decision.
I have the old dutch meyer book from when we researched some single wing concepts, and I never realized how the Belly series concepts of the spinner sweep technique were derived from his book. From looking at the pictures in the book I can see where Coach Manny formulated his ideas. – Great Stuff
February 24, 2010 at 2:02 PM
I think the term we are looking for is “pick your poison”. A defense has so much that it has to prepare for with this system it basically cannot defend anything. If it chooses the run game it gets beaten with the passing game and vice versa. Many times and I have had this happen it cannot stop anything. So sometimes you have to pick your poison wisely. Perhaps no poison is wise at all.
There is an old Russian proverb that says “If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one”. Perhaps they had access to the triple shoot
March 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Like the idea of filming from behind the defense..Most guys want it the other way
March 12, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I agree, when we do it during Play Pass period we can really see just how we attack and regulate our pad level. It is what the defense sees when we are executing a play.