http://www.football-defense.com/defending-the-spread-offense-shovel-option-play/ Teaching Defense to Football Coaches who want to Dominate on the Field Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.football-defense.com/defending-the-spread-offense-shovel-option-play/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Joe Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:31:03 +0000 http://www.football-defense.com/?p=192#comment-302 Yeah our offense ran a little bit of the Tight End shovel play as well - though not quite as successfully. In the spring we brought one receiver in to an H-back type position, kind of ducked down behind the tackle, and used him as the shovel guy too. That was a very effective play when it was on, but we didn't stick with it. The toughest part about those variations is that backers aren't reading those guys, so no one is recognizing there's a pitch man. Like you said, the DE or Sam in an under front needs to follow him to really stop it. But if you do that and the backer doesn't stay home for QB, you're open to a dart-type read on the TE. Really love your blog, though... thanks! Yeah our offense ran a little bit of the Tight End shovel play as well – though not quite as successfully. In the spring we brought one receiver in to an H-back type position, kind of ducked down behind the tackle, and used him as the shovel guy too. That was a very effective play when it was on, but we didn’t stick with it. The toughest part about those variations is that backers aren’t reading those guys, so no one is recognizing there’s a pitch man. Like you said, the DE or Sam in an under front needs to follow him to really stop it. But if you do that and the backer doesn’t stay home for QB, you’re open to a dart-type read on the TE. Really love your blog, though… thanks!

]]> http://www.football-defense.com/defending-the-spread-offense-shovel-option-play/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Spread Offense Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:08:46 +0000 http://www.football-defense.com/?p=192#comment-300 Thanks for the reference... nice article on defending a great play. What Florida has done recently is use the TE (Hernandez) as the third or shovel option man. Alabama in the SEC championship game actually had the DE/OLB trail Hernandez on the one play when the Gators tried to run the shovel or 'crazy' option. Thanks for the reference… nice article on defending a great play. What Florida has done recently is use the TE (Hernandez) as the third or shovel option man. Alabama in the SEC championship game actually had the DE/OLB trail Hernandez on the one play when the Gators tried to run the shovel or ‘crazy’ option.

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