Thanks for watching!

@@davidthomason9476one more question haha how do you coach the stance for the back? Thanks.

We want his weight to be forward so when he starts he is “falling” forward and has to get his feet going. We don’t want an even stance like the OL but we don’t want all his weight forward like the DL. Kind of a happy medium in between, if that makes sense. Hope that helps. Thanks for the questions! If you have more fire away!!

We like him in a 3-point stance for a couple of reasons. It keeps him low for Belly, Trap and Dive. Keeping the shoulder pads low for contact at the LOS. It makes it hard for LBs to see him and improves his fakes as well. I know some guys like their FBs in the 2-point so the back can have better eyes on the defense pre-snap. I get that. I just like the extra bit of deception that I think we get from the 3-point as well as the help with keeping the pad level lower. How that helps Coach.

Incorrect. Tubby Raymond and Ted Kepmski would disagree with you. This is Wing-T and Buck. Buck Sweep is identified by the split action in the backfield, FB going one way, HB going the other. It is also characterized by the two pulling Guards, one for the kick one for the wrap. Lastly, it is not a sweep to the outside, it is an off tackle play. All of these plays have these attributes. Why do you think it is not Buck Sweep?

We have gone away from it for the past few years as I became obsessed with KISS (keep it simple stupid). We had a lot of young guys so we stuck with Under Center Wing-T. This Fall we feel like we have some athletes that can make the Shotgun stuff work. So we will be installing a couple of Shotgun packages this year.

@@davidthomason9476 Thank you coach for reply, wish you the best of luck and look forward to future videos of both 900 formation and Gun T packages.

Coach, I don't really have a playbook with everything all typed up. And I'm not sure how I'd deal with Canadian Football rules and the Wing-T without understanding the rules better and giving it a lot of thought. I got all of this stuff from Coach Murphy in Montana. He has a website, it's listed below. Then we just tweaked it from there. I'd love to answer specific questions, but you should check out what Coach Murphy has as well. He's got a ton more on this stuff than what I've got posted here.Give it a look and come back and ask questions if you have them. I will do my best to answer them. shotgunwingtcom.ipage.com/Murphy/

And video! Even better!

To deal with that potential collision, we have the center step towards the Waggle (ie: when Waggling to the right out of 900 formation) the C will step right to cover for the pulling G. We have the FB stick to his Trap path and block away from the Waggle (using the same example) the FB would end up blocking on the left of the C. Obviously this removes the FB from being a receiver on Waggle. It works for us, but some traditionalists may like it a little different. Does that help?

Ha! Yeah, sorry about that. I needed some filler for in between plays and all I have is our game film.

Coach we use the Old School “Delaware Wing-T” that Tubby Raymond and Ted Kempski ran for years. If you’re interested in Wing-T info, look for anything Tubby Raymond, Dennis Creehan or Tom Herman (Mercyhurst University). You can also email me and We can chat there.

@@davidthomason9476 What is your email Coach?

@@robertobrambila8631 [email protected]

Ok, I’ll see if I can work up some Down or Belly break downs. Would Buck Sweep be of interest too?

@@davidthomason9476 I would be interested in that buck sweep breakdown

We have used that jab step to help timing when we have a fast FB. We generally want the FB to dive straight away at the line and for the QB to give up the Mid-line to the FB. You can see that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gou2mougbdykrdU or kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZqndIWqbqeti6s Thanks for the question. Hope that helps.

We want to build a wall at the inside LB. We are setting trap up with our Buck Sweep. Fakes here are important. When the HB is faking Buck Sweep the OLB has to respect it or we're going to burn him with Buck Sweep. We also want our TEs/WBs to look like they're blocking Buck. By sending them to a "party at the LB" we are also making it look like Buck at least for the first few steps. So, when we get the good fake and the build a wall at the ILB we can get big yards with Trap. If the OLB stars making the play, then we're gonna run Buck and make him pay. Usually that OLB as well as the playside DE either get too far up field or are so worried by Buck Sweep that by the time they realize its Trap, the play is already by them. Hope that helps.

Thanks Coach!

Coach we adjusted to run some “short sweep” a couple of times. We usually do this as a game time adjustment and some times in the game plan. When that DE is to tough for our WB to handle or he is just an anchor and refuses to get washed down on the down block, we will run short sweep. It hits a little quicker as it’s one hole inside of where our Buck usually ends up at but it’s just as good against some stubborn DEs. I know we can run Down with the same affect and we do. I just like having extra tools in the tool box. And being able to attack the same spot with a slightly different look can mess with defensive game plans. Also, to be honest there is a couple of blown assignments by our WB in this clip, but the Guards and the RB adjusted real well. Just so you know our base rules for the WB on Buck is Gap/Down/Backer for us. Hope that helps.

Coach, Thanks for the question. It was more of a personnel issue. We suffered an injury to our starting FB the week before in the league championship game and had to shuffle the backfield. The guy at WB (#30) was actually a SE his whole career until that week. We had a lot to teach him and tried to keep things simple for him as we prepared for round 1 of the play-offs. We can and sometimes to change the WB's blocking based on game plan. This time however we were scrambling to fill a spot. FYI: We're at a very small school. I only get about 34-36 kids combined for JV/Varsity.

We don’t reverse out on Down. We’re a Buck, Belly team so we reverse out on most everything. By not reversing on Down it becomes a key breaker and we think it hits just a little faster.

@@davidthomason9476 I love it !

We allow our backside guard (BSG) to stay home if he sees a stunting LB. The line of thinking is that he's supposed to block that guy when he pulls anyways and if he is stunting and causing issues in our mesh, we can stop the issues in the mesh and still block the same guy. We can game plan it (think stunting stack 3 defenses) or allow the player to make the call. That said, the BSG has got to be experienced in this. We won't let a Freshman, first time starter make that call. Heck, most Freshmen don't even know that is a possibility. More often than not it's a game planning call. We make the BSG aware of a possible stunt and tell him to keep his head up and eyes open.

Thanks Coach!

Small High School on the Oregon coast.

@@davidthomason9476 so the name of the school is Small High School?

@@jerelmcdowell8343 Coquille HS.

As of last year, yes. Last year we were always in a TE to the right formation. We did have tags like double TE, X-Over, Z (WB) Over. We were for the most part alway in 100 formation in Delaware speak. We liked 100 X-Over a lot too. We were still able to attack from one flank to the other and everything in between.

A little of both to be honest Coach. It hits a little like Down but to the HB instead of the FB and has helped out our WBs that struggle blocking. We tell the WB to block down/LB like any other good Wing-T coach. We stress the train in the tracks type of blocking so that we don’t chase the block. We also tell them if he lines up head up or outside to either chip from the TEs block to LB or straight to the LB if the TE is cool. But apparently our WB only heard the second half of his rules. “Don’t block head up to outside.” So instead of taking his down block steps, and staying like a train on its tracks, he thought it was quicker to skip around to the LB. We didn’t really notice it until we were able to check out the film after the game. But it seemed to work. And if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So we rolled with it. It’s a nice adjustment to have in your tool box.

@@davidthomason9476 I think it's fun how variations get created. Lots of my film shows the WB chasing down that end who eventually created a logjam and busted play. I think I like the idea of my guard taking on the defense's toughest man rather than my wing. Help me here - if end crashes along with tight end, guard turns up and finds 1st available. If he comes up field, he's getting kicked. Are you seeing it the same?

@@michaelyoung247 Yup, that’s about it. We don’t want the PSG to stop and look around. He either sees the kickout and hits it or he turns up field looking for someone to block.

Sorry, not much of a social media guy but I can email with the best of them! [email protected] We got most of our Shotgun Wing-T stuff from Coach Murphy. I especially liked using the WB in motion for Belly because we didn't like the idea of a QB Belly with the guys we have. We're in a small school 220 total in the high school, so not a lot of depth at the QB spot... Please email me though. I love talking football especially Wing-T!

If you’re running the Wing-T, it does. We want to make the defense see what looks like the same exact back field action for the first few steps as much as possible. So for Trap, we want the backfield to look like Trap, but also Buck Sweep and Waggle too. Since those three plays attack the defense differently in different places having the same backfield action for the first few steps is gonna freeze the defense just a little and keep them honest at the same time. Hope that makes sense.

@@davidthomason9476 it does. Is there a rule of thumb you use? Looks like buck is always away from the play? I have a 10u team. Were gonna keep it very simple with buck, trap, belly and jet. Will it mess anything up if he opens the wrong way other than descizing.

@@chrisstudstill114 It will mess up the timing and mesh in the backfield a bit. Check out this site: wingt-coach.com/ He is a youth Wing-T guy. I think he has a bunch of stuff that is aimed at your type of players.

Coach, first thing I'd tell you is to check out Coach Murphy's website. I purchased some of his videos but did not buy his playbook. As far as my playbook is concerned, I don't really have a physical one. If you wanna share an email address with me we can start a conversation about it though. That said with the basic formations we show in this video, Buck Sweep, Waggle Counter XX are bundled into one Series. While Belly (ISO), Belly Counter and Belly Keep Pass are in another Series. Formation depending (WR/Slot on the backside) you can add a Bubble on the backside very easily to all of the above plays (except maybe Waggle and Keep Pass). If you've got a QB that you wanna run, you can easily option off of a backside 2 Tech.-5 Tech D-lineman on most of these plays. There is obviously a lot more you can do if you want to use more than a basic set of formations. Hope that helps. Get me an email and lets start talking football.

Are you talking about Belly Counter (it is a Tackle Trap). If so we would be Gap/Down/LB across the front except for the PST, TE & WB. We send the PST & TE at the middle LB while the WB will run his Belly Sweep track behind the formation if not in motion already (think Rocket/Jet). The BST will pull and block the first opposite color jersey past the PSG. FB Fakes Belly and replaces the BST, HB takes a counter step to the outside then back across the formation taking the hand off from the QB. The QB reverse pivots rides the FB on his Belly fake then gives to the HB as he comes across. Hope that's what you were asking for.

I’ve got some Counter I’ll work up soon. But no Shotgun Wing-T this year. We were starting a Sophomore at QB and I didn’t want to overwhelm him so we stayed under center in 2018. KISS, right? We will be running our Shotgun stuff the upcoming season though.

Oh, yeah we’ve run Trap to the “Nub-Side” before. Good play.