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We asked coaches three questions about the jet sweep: How do you coach up the exchange/mesh? Do you hand it off, do you read it, do you toss it forward to make it a forward pass? What are you looking at on defense to make decisions about whether to call the jet sweep or a complementary plays? What are your favorite plays to complement the motion and protect the jet sweep? But first, let’s cover the basics. (If you already know a little bit about the jet sweep, feel free to skip this part) What is a Jet Sweep in...

I don't always have time to watch a lot of college ball on the weekends since we're so busy preparing for our opponents, but during the week I like to get on YouTube or the ESPN3 website and find what I missed. Here's a play that I absolutely loved: Illinois needed just one yard in the 3rd quarter, just on the edge of the red zone, to keep the drive alive. You can see the video in the tweet below: Very tricky play from the Illini on 3rd and 1. QB gives a look like he's getting under center to...

Brennan Marion's "GoGo" offense presents defenses with a lot of challenges. For instance, the offense may have a split-back backfield but then have trips to the field as well. In order to be in trips while at the same time having two eligible players in the backfield means that one receiver will be “covered,” meaning that he cannot go downfield for a pass. While this may sound like a disadvantage at first, there are a handful of benefits for running unbalanced formations. For one, defenses are not used to seeing such formations. Unbalanced formations can cause a lot of confusion...

Tyler Manes is the defensive coordinator at Southwest Florida Christian Academy in Fort Myers, Florida. He and I spent almost SIX HOURS going through everything you need to know about installing one of the most popular defensive schemes in the game today.Coach Manes has learned (and borrowed) from a lot of smart coaches and has adapted and simplified the Dave Aranda scheme for the high school level.I learned a TON going through this process, and I know you will too, so I wanted to share a few things I took from the clinic he put together.Before we get started, you can...

If you could only play one coverage all game long, what would it be? Do you even have a coverage like that in your playbook? Do you have the rules and adjustments built in to the plan to handle everything you're gonna see from your opponent? For Coach Tyler Manes, the answer is simple: 2 Read In fact, because his kids are so good and so familiar with this coverage, he's able to do so many other things in the secondary, and at the end of the day, he feels comfortable knowing he can always come back to 2 read. Why does...