The A-11 Offense...(Football)
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Interesting, I think it could be effectively defensed, if there is ample time to prepare for. It would require a top level quaterback with very quick decision making abilities, especially if the D just decides to blitz. Benefits from wide open field, so I would doubt that it would be effective in the red zone. I think it would be best used if ran only occassionally to keep the D confused.
Imagine running this with a no huddle offence, for a series or two.
Imagine running this with a no huddle offence, for a series or two.
Spizz - We used to run this offense in high school. We called it "Triple Trips"
We would run it on every extra point - we would always get the 2 points. Teams simply did not know how to defend it and were unprepared. Basically it was a gimick to draw timeouts on worthless extra point plays.. it made the other coaches FURIOUS..
If they set up like they knew how to defend it, I would just yell "SHIFT" and we would get into a power-I formation and jam it down their throat.
You can run a wide variety of plays out of it too - Just like any football offense once you understand the offensive language, you can variate the plays however you want.
We would run the speed option, QB option, quick pitch, fades, sweeps, reverses.. Usually I would just call Triple Trips "my call" in the huddle and when we got to the line, I would audible the play based on how the defense set up..
Most often people would stack the middle of the field, and only put 1-2 guys to defend the trips out on the hashes. I would just give a quick snap swing pass out to our RB and it would be a 3 vs 2 blocking scheme out on the wing.
The problem is it takes a bunch of dedicated intelligent individuals to run the offense, especially at the high school level. Luckily our coach was all about throwing the balls (I had 3k yards my jr year) and also was all about being able to run any snap count at any time (how often do you see someone get offsides on their own fake snap count? all the time in high school haha) .. so we were very disciplined in those ways..
We would also open a game up in this offense - really catch a coach off guard.. they study and study film, waiting for us to come out in the power I and have our samoan 'train' running back jam in down their face.. but some games we would come out in Triple Trips, no huddle! It sent teams SCRAMBLING.. and losing a few timeouts.
The other thing we would do is come out with a 5-wide spread offense, no huddle 2 minute drill style and FLING the ball all over.. a few quick outs and slants gets the DBs and safeties playing up... motion our speedster X receiver into the slot position, and have him run a streak while everyone else runs 10 yard digs.. the safety/DBs would all bite on the digs and no one would be within 20 yards of the speedster.. I hardly remember a time when we didn't score on an opening drive.
I should try to get my highlight tape on YouTube
I had a pretty sweet front flip into the endzone on a triple trips extra point - a'la Michael Vick! (my hero!)
anyways keep it real Spizz I love football threads
We would run it on every extra point - we would always get the 2 points. Teams simply did not know how to defend it and were unprepared. Basically it was a gimick to draw timeouts on worthless extra point plays.. it made the other coaches FURIOUS..
If they set up like they knew how to defend it, I would just yell "SHIFT" and we would get into a power-I formation and jam it down their throat.
You can run a wide variety of plays out of it too - Just like any football offense once you understand the offensive language, you can variate the plays however you want.
We would run the speed option, QB option, quick pitch, fades, sweeps, reverses.. Usually I would just call Triple Trips "my call" in the huddle and when we got to the line, I would audible the play based on how the defense set up..
Most often people would stack the middle of the field, and only put 1-2 guys to defend the trips out on the hashes. I would just give a quick snap swing pass out to our RB and it would be a 3 vs 2 blocking scheme out on the wing.
The problem is it takes a bunch of dedicated intelligent individuals to run the offense, especially at the high school level. Luckily our coach was all about throwing the balls (I had 3k yards my jr year) and also was all about being able to run any snap count at any time (how often do you see someone get offsides on their own fake snap count? all the time in high school haha) .. so we were very disciplined in those ways..
We would also open a game up in this offense - really catch a coach off guard.. they study and study film, waiting for us to come out in the power I and have our samoan 'train' running back jam in down their face.. but some games we would come out in Triple Trips, no huddle! It sent teams SCRAMBLING.. and losing a few timeouts.
The other thing we would do is come out with a 5-wide spread offense, no huddle 2 minute drill style and FLING the ball all over.. a few quick outs and slants gets the DBs and safeties playing up... motion our speedster X receiver into the slot position, and have him run a streak while everyone else runs 10 yard digs.. the safety/DBs would all bite on the digs and no one would be within 20 yards of the speedster.. I hardly remember a time when we didn't score on an opening drive.
I should try to get my highlight tape on YouTube
I had a pretty sweet front flip into the endzone on a triple trips extra point - a'la Michael Vick! (my hero!)anyways keep it real Spizz I love football threads
We also used to run an extra point offense we liked to call "Whirly Bird".. we would put our 4 down lineman all the way to the right, in the 2 point stance like receivers all the way next to the sideline.. We would than put all the receivers and backs in a 2 point stance all the way to the other sideline.. then in the center of the field it was just The Center, the QB, and 1 RB.. threw teams off and all we would do was a swing pass one direction or the other, or a QB option/sweep..
Miles;2083576; said:
What team did you play for? Were you guys good? My team sucked. I have a vid too...I'll bring it when I come up. I played nose guard (all league) and tail back. (I had to switch jerseys during the game) I am a super freak on the field. How did you guys run this when it was just invented though? Whenever we tried some crazy formation, the ref's would call officials' time outs and discuss it with our coach first. We had no trick plays, not even a simple reverse.
Remember I played for The Dalles, Or.. and we talked about your super-freak skills
The A-11 was just invented as a full time offense.. but things like Triple Trips, Whirly Bird and movie Varsity Blue's "Ooptie Oop" have been around forever. If the officials don't suck and know the rules they should just worry about 7 people on the line and appropriate jersey numbers. Refs would do that to us sometimes too, and we would COMPLAIN.. we just started letting them know before the coin toss "this is what we are going to do - don't screw it up."..
We had alot of trick plays, but we didn't rely on them.. we just had a very complex offense that would keep defense coordinators guessing. We would bring something new to the table each week, so they couldn't study film. We mainly ran a single back spread offense or a power-I offense in our normal sets.. and alot of no huddle. We had an elite QB coach and we put alot of trust in our QBs to be able to audible and change plays on hot reads and things like that. It really takes a disciplined team to do those sort of things, but you only run so many hundreds of laps around the opposite goal post before you pull your head out
The A-11 was just invented as a full time offense.. but things like Triple Trips, Whirly Bird and movie Varsity Blue's "Ooptie Oop" have been around forever. If the officials don't suck and know the rules they should just worry about 7 people on the line and appropriate jersey numbers. Refs would do that to us sometimes too, and we would COMPLAIN.. we just started letting them know before the coin toss "this is what we are going to do - don't screw it up."..
We had alot of trick plays, but we didn't rely on them.. we just had a very complex offense that would keep defense coordinators guessing. We would bring something new to the table each week, so they couldn't study film. We mainly ran a single back spread offense or a power-I offense in our normal sets.. and alot of no huddle. We had an elite QB coach and we put alot of trust in our QBs to be able to audible and change plays on hot reads and things like that. It really takes a disciplined team to do those sort of things, but you only run so many hundreds of laps around the opposite goal post before you pull your head out
That looks like it would work well if you had the right people to run it. Namely faster lineman and quarterback.
But then again any system will fail without the right personel.
But then again any system will fail without the right personel.