Attacking Coverage

Attacking Coverage

My name is Luke Ki. I’m the head football coach here at Westfield State University. Uh my first season here was this past fall and uh implemented the option for these guys for the first time and uh learned a lot about, you know, what we’re picking up, what guys are struggling with. It was hard for me leaving a school that we’ done it for so long at um to kind of starting a new with guys that weren’t used to being under center, guys that weren’t used to, you know, pounding the rock quite like we’re going to do here. But, um, I just found that through our installations and getting things off the ground, um, there’s a few key things that really stood out early on, um, as to, you know, maybe I can help break this thing down a little bit simpler for a guy or, you know, these are kind of the package plays that work for a team that’s really new getting into this. So, I kind of want to talk about some of that. I just did um I just did one segment on the toss package. um different ways to to block it up up front and then you know a lot of key uh coaching points for the perimeter and perimeter blocking and setting the angles and little things to look for and things to avoid. Um and I want to keep going off of that with the rest of the package that we built off of toss. So, you know, toss is not an expensive play depending on, you know, how much time obviously is up to you to put into it, but we do most of our work in pre-practice on toss. Um, and then we can go out in a game and call up 15 20 times. And I always say it’s it’s not a play off for the quarterback, but there’s not a lot of thinking involved for him. Um, you know, the rules don’t change a whole lot. It’s just getting good players, uh, perimeter players in space, the one-on-one in the worst case scenario. Um, but good numbers, good angles. It’s just a solid foundation of anybody that’s trying to run option style. Um, needs to have some type of toss, rocket toss package. Um, or even jet sweep. Uh, very similar, just a little bit little bit different, you know, tweaks in the fundamentals of it. But um so if you’re going to major in the toss game, which I think you should, um and we do, um I think we also have to have the adjustments off of it. Um so that’s what this portion is going to uh focus on is basically our counter the countering of whatever the defense is trying to do to stop it. So, we’ll focus on the pass game here first. Um, and kind of how we take advantage of the way whatever defense is trying to stop it. So, there’ll be a little bit of All right, full boot. Full boot’s one of my favorites. We’ll keep working the front. H, you know what? We’ll change the front. Let’s just mix it up. Get something different here. Let’s go odd front. All right. And we’re still triggering the same everything. All right. It’s just where are we looking? Okay. Now, play action stays the same. Okay, we are going to do the same as the half roll where the quarterback’s going to reverse. Not quite the six o’clock sell toss and then he’s going to push the edge. Okay, in the full boot, I like to cut down the wide receivers. at least the place I buy receivers. Whether it’s cover to or not doesn’t matter because we’re going completely away uh from from the cell, but we would line up like this anyways um if it was against an odd front to give us the option to block level one. So, our wide receivers will almost always be in this nasty alignment when we have a man-on-man outside of the tackle just so we can get the toss started. All right. I talked about that in the Rocket Poss package. So, with a full boot, obviously want to bring this wide receiver on a deep over route. Okay. And now, how are we going to attack the backside? All right. So, whether you got cover two, we’ve triggered him, triggered him. Okay. overactive safety corner likely will shift to some type of man once the action goes away on backside on an island. Okay, maybe you want to run a burst stem corner at him. Okay, the second option is going to be our Bback. All right, the Bback has one simple rule here. You are going to release on the same track as all the other toss tracks. You’re going right to the outside leg of the tackle and where you would be cutting the first thread off of the tackle’s hip. All right. Instead, now we’re going to chip through the outside half of the widest rusher. And the issue, the coaching point that you’re going to have to spend a little bit of time on is this guy doesn’t catch much passes. He hears whatever you call this play action. He wants to get open. All right. So, he’s going to want to find his fastest release. We’re going to run him into the flat here. Typically, we try to keep them at five yards. All right. And this is the pylon. All right. Simp the simple read now revealing itself obviously is now the backside corner. Okay. So, if the Bback does his job well, all right, say you got a pinching four and a nine off the edge. Okay. We’re going to go through the outside half. We’re going to contact friction the outside half of that because your number one rule is to allow the quarterback to run. Pull it down, finish your boot, and go. If we have an opportunity, we can get to the outside half of this, vacate the safety and put the corner in the jam on the on the corner route here, right? There’s not much left that can tackle the quarterback. So, your responsibility is to free the quarterback’s outside runway before you release on your 5 yardd flat. You know, only other coaching point we’ve had on that is if it’s a hard rush, if it is a legitimate threat to take your quarterback out, all right, we will cut that and remove ourselves from the route. All right, if it’s a hard, you know, squeeze that we can get outside of easily, it’s a chip and go. But if this dude wants to get involved in the quarterback’s boot, all right, we’re going to have to cut that down at the line of scrimmage. Um, otherwise release the flat. Okay. High low on the backside corner. Typically, you’re going to get this. All right. And you’ve either got the dump off to the B or you’ve got an opportunity to pull it down and follow the be back in flat. All right. I I always prefer the quarterback run, but they’re always going to throw it. All right. They they love to pass when they get the opportunity. Um, the only other thing that we’ve talked about with the quarterbacks, it’s kind of a cheat. All right, if we know what we’re getting, this wide receiver is almost always going to have a lane. All right, it’s a one-on-one with a safety going in the opposite direction that has to peel back the cover. All right. If he’s sitting and waiting, it’s probably not the best time to use this cheat. All right. But if you have an overacted backside safety, I tell the quarterback, see if you can peek your eyes on your boot to find this deep over route. Okay? And this over route is working wherever you want. All right. We give them the over route landmark of the 18 yards. All right. So, boot. If we can peek our eyes to that deep over route. Great. All right. Otherwise, it’s a simple high low read with the ability to keep the ball. Pretty simple with the protection. We decoy the play side A and we wheel them. All right. And then everyone else up front is back to rip and run. All right. We have the Bback as the edge protector. The quarterback is full booting. All right. We don’t need to be hanging out backside with a man scheme. All right. It’s full rip and run. try to influence the defensive line to the play action side, right? And give your Bback the one-on-one with the widest rusher and your quarterback the runway. All right, so it’s a it is actually three different protections depending on the three different routes. That’s been the best way for us that that we’ve realized. Your playside wheel route is man slide. Your half boot back side is man slide. So we switch the sides and then your last full boot is uh rip and run by your offensive line up front. All right. So those are the three. The other one was uh same side wheel ball half roll crossers. Pick on the backside safety full boot. All right. Take on the backside corner. Three different routes. Three different protections. three different reads, okay? But each one of them pretty simple in their own right. And we carry all three without question. [Music]

Rocket Toss – 3 Ways to Attack Coverage
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Speaker: Lou Conte Jr.
HC – Westfield State University

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