You can simplify the read in Spacing. Coverdale has been using it for I don't know how many years and it is a huge part of his offense. Now of course that is HS but you can simplify this down. I didn't look at the articles posted because i think I have already read them. The other thing is that the concept is very formation friendly.
On its base level you can turn into a defender key just like stick. You can also tell your QB who to throw to. The way Coverdale does it is they want the 1 on 1 away from Spacing. They want to force the defense to move in a manner to help out that CB on the back side. THey do it by tagging different routes to attack the coverage/technique. Once they get the adjustment by the defense then they work the Spacing side. Now he does it as a full field across read with a redrop at times. Way too much for youth and your not going to do it at a MS level unless you spend a HUGE amount fo offseason time. The base concept on the 3 rec side though is no more difficult to run the Stick.
Now a concept that is money and simple is Snag. You can run it as a 2 or 3 rec combination. Many people have something similar in their offense like a slant wheel or curl wheel combo.
Gregory: I really interested in your passing game approach both in teaching and in game. I some how have lost the Eagle package PPT that was really indepth. I know your approach with the triangle in the run game. I interested in how it works with the pass game in combination with how you use both the run and passing game to protect your plays. What I mean by that is the guy on a slot can make a play on a fade out combo. Now I know part of it is calling the right pass combination to match the coverage (soft, hard, leverage, etc) but i have to think part of your run game puts that slot defender in conflict. I'm not sure if this is making sense.
Morris,
I love the Spacing Concept from Coverdale. The other concept I really like is the Coverdale Crease in a 2x2 with the RB running the crease. I really like to run it off of a fake speed action because we run the speed option so well and our RB is often one of our better receivers on the team. As they collapse the LOS it opens up the crease and the perimeter routes.
Gregory: I really interested in your passing game approach both in teaching and in game. I some how have lost the Eagle package PPT that was really indepth.
I am planning on posting a 2012 version that is updated. For the most part the power running game/play action is our base. The uncovered/spread concepts act to support/enhance those concepts. What I have found is because the DW is a compressed power running using a hybrid and/or a full spread variation often times puts the defense on its heels because the two approaches are so different. The hard part was how to blend them so that teaching them was simple and efficient. I have alway run PERIMETER QUICK PASSING GAME CONCEPTS with the DW but my teaching/structuring of plays as greatly improved over the years.
I know your approach with the triangle in the run game. I interested in how it works with the pass game in combination with how you use both the run and passing game to protect your plays. What I mean by that is the guy on a slot can make a play on a fade out combo. Now I know part of it is calling the right pass combination to match the coverage (soft, hard, leverage, etc) but i have to think part of your run game puts that slot defender in conflict. I'm not sure if this is making sense.
It is really RUN/PASS TRIANGLE.
Simply put if you have 3 in the TRIANGLE run the base offtacke stuff (be it POWER/COUNTER/ISO concepts based on defensive reaction). This is the BASE of what most defenses do on the perimeter (CONTAIN/FORCE/ALLEY).
4 in the Triangle run WEDGE/TRAP/DIVE inside (dependant on what the interior DLINE is doing) or THROW down the field (vertical/flood/crossing/layered concepts depending on zone/man perimeter play and MOFO/MOFC).
2 in the Triangle run SWEEP/THROW to the perimeter (In EAGLE/LOOSE/BUNCH/TRIPS we look to throw UNCOVERED first).
This means if we read both sides it allows us to one get an quick idea what we can do on each side and then decide on which side we want to attack. This is especially beneficial when we are in a hybrid look (LOOSE or LOOSE OVER and compressed on the other side) as it allows us to quickly discern overloads/unbalanced looks on the defense and then quickly take advantage of them to the other side/in the middle.
The spread passing game has really evolved for me over the years as I have had a chance to simplify things down to a SLOT or CORNER read on our perimeter plays and a SAFETY-TO-EDGE read on our vertical/cross concepts.
The other thing we did a lot of this past season was when we went into TRIPS and wanted to run perimeter pass concepts and the concept we ran was a two receiver concept at its base we had two basic routes for the inside slot and it was based on the planning for that defense week to week and if we were in the RED ZONE.
1) He would simply run a SEAM route to hold the FS or threaten the deep middle.
2) He would run the BUBBLE which worked really well with our WHEEL and WHEEL based concepts as he essentially was a FOLLOW receiver to the WHEEL route and would settle in on the flat as the SLOT ran the wheel. Often he was wide open in space.
Jack
