How To Stop Wing T Offense

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The Double Tight/Tight Carve up Double Wing offense is difficult, but not incommunicable, to defend.  It is a very effective youth football game offense that is common among top youth football teams.

Understanding the double wing

Don Markham invented the offense in the mid-1970s. His high schoolhouse teams went on to mail a 309-110-i record. In 1994, his Bloomington High Schoolhouse (California) team bankrupt a national scoring tape by putting up 880 points in 14 games.

The double wing is a serial-based criminal offence that tries to outnumber the defense force at the point of attack and put the defense in conflict with merely a handful of complementary plays. The base alignment is a balanced formation with 2 tight ends aligned foot-to-pes. The quarterback lines up under heart with a fullback aligned right backside the quarterback, so close that the fullback'south face mask is nigh touching the rear of the quarterback.

The wingbacks are aligned at both wings, simply i thou back and one yard wide of the tight ends. The typical mix of plays for Double Wing teams are: FB Wedge, FB Trap, WB Toss Off-tackle Power, WB Counter and a couple of unproblematic play-action passes. The goal of the Double Fly is to control the brawl and the clock, methodically moving down the field four or five yards at a time.

Defending the double wing

Don't modify your entire defense merely to stop this law-breaking. Flavour-of-the-week defenses rarely work, but making nuances to your defense tin can exist effective. This approach is a variation of my base of operations youth half dozen-2 Monster Zone Defense.

Toss Off-Tackle is the base play that you will likely run into nigh oftentimes. Note that the Wing (the ball carrier) is in brusk motion before he takes the pitch from the QB off-tackle.

Defensive tackles. Put a player in each of the "C" gaps, betwixt the tackle and tight end. They merely penetrate to the heels of the linemen. If the defensive tackle feels a double squad, he falls to the ground and creates a pile. If the defensive tackle comes through clean because the offensive tackle goes second level, information technology'south going to exist the Fullback Trap play. At present our man takes an inside path and attacks the within shoulder of the pulling guard. If the Offensive Tackle pulls away, your human being goes as flat as he can in the direction of the puller, trying to make a play in the backfield.

Defensive ends. Defensive ends will take to squeeze the off-tackle hole; if they play deep contain, they will be kicked out all day past the fullback. The end will "wrong shoulder" the lead block to clasp down the off-tackle hole. That means the defensive cease will assault the heels of the wing to their side and hit the fullback with his exterior shoulder. The end should make contact with the fullback'due south inside shoulder, thereby squeezing the hole.

Nose tackles. Nose tackles volition deport crawl or frog into the "A" gaps. This volition take away the Fullback Wedge play.  If they can become enough penetration, information technology volition also take away the second puller which the Double Wing offense needs for its Off-Tackle Toss play and Counter play. The nose tackle'southward goal is to create a pile and deny pullers second-level blocking.

Cornerbacks. Corners play in zone with each having the deep half of the field to their side. If the motioning fly goes away, the corner must slow play the run and wait for the counter play. If the Wing to their side blocks down to the cease, it's a sweep; if the wing blocks the linebacker, it will be off-tackle. Look to spill the off-tackle outside with the corner now playing contain.

Linebackers. If the movement is towards a linebacker, nearly likely it is going to be an Off-Tackle Toss play to that side. Linebackers should come up and meet it in the hole. If the motion is abroad, the linebacker should boring play the Toss, looking for a cutback and counter to that side.

Monster. You tin play the Monster a variety of ways. If he is aggress and mayhap your best player, yous can permit him free-manner a scrap and wait for the ball. Alternatively, he can read the guard contrary the motion. He also is your deep hole homo on a laissez passer.

In whatever effect, you will need to be on your game to stop a well coached Double Wing team. Taking these steps can help dull down an otherwise powerful crime.

Dave Cisar is the founder and President of http://winningyouthfootball.com He has spoken at over 230 coaches clinics worldwide, named as the No. 4 Well-nigh Influential on Hudl's top 100 and has authored several award- winning youth football books.

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