New football offense

RIP A-11. You were great in The Client.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/2009/02/football-a-11-o.html

 

The original release with this year's rules changes: http://www.nfhs.org/web/2009/02/horsecollar_tackle_to_be_penali.aspx

Thanks for the heads-up, dixie. It's (thankfully) still a ways off, but when it gets around to football-tab time, we'll probably do a story on this.

 

RIP

I guess heaven needed another gimmick offense.

 

The only thing that offense is good for is getting its inventor's name in the paper.

 

You only cover us when our offense gets banned.

 

Wait, so rather than try to fight the ruling, the coach who came up with the offense wants to have the national federation create another "sub-federation" for teams who want to use it?

That's just wacky on so many levels.

 

The Wing-T remains the best offense for HS football teams. Not everybody runs it and it requires discipline, but if run correctly, you can get big things out of it.

Re: the A-11, we run a 30-stack, or 3-3-5, A nose, two ends, three backers and two outside line backers. I can blitz 5-6 on every play drop the back into zone coverage and knock the quarterback down, or at least force him into a throw he doesn't want to make. You might be able to drive a ball, but in high school that's what you want because sooner or later the offense is going to make a mistake.

 

Wing- T is boring to watch but a bitch to defend if run well. It all starts with establishing FB Belly. It then forces defense to commit an MLB to keying FB on every play. QB has to be great ballhandler that is able to quickly make the fake to FB and hand ball to one of wings coming around on sweep.

Current Georgia Tech team ran a very good wing t this year. Killed Georgia with it.

 

The coaches who handled the Pennsy offense in last year's local all-star game run the Wing-T at their school, so that's what they installed. Beat the hell out of the N.Y. team with it, 27-0. In the postgame scrum, the head coach said, "that's our game -- rush for 300 yards and complete a couple of passes."

Did a great job of running out the clock in the fourth quarter, too. And yeah, we thanked him for that.

 

If DE's and OLB's are not prepared allignment wise for wing T defense gets killed on the EDGE.

In effect playside wing is an extra blocker with great blocking angles.

 

The whole point of the standardized numbering system, which was invented in the 1940s, was to make it instantly obvious which players are and are not eligible receivers: Nos. 50-79 are ineligible.

For quite a while, in college at least, there were NO exceptions to the rule, including punt/kick formation: any players lining up in an ineligible position were required to wear an ineligible number. I am sure most of you who were around in the 1970s remember punt-team players throwing on tank-top "overjerseys" with numbers in the 50s-70s.

Just go back to that rule. If you line up in an ineligible position, you MUST wear 50-79. On any down. In any formation. No matter how you shift around prior to the snap.

Even after that, you can still run the PLAYS of the A-11 offense -- you just can't do all the shifting and shuffling designed to evade the numbering rule, and obfuscate who is and is not eligible.

 

So it's a gimmick offense, I think it's stupid to outlaw it. It brings a little creativity to the table, why is that so bad?