SUPER EASY RPOs to Run in the Spread Offense

well today hey i hope you got your pen and paper ready because i know i do uh i've got the man the myth one of the biggest guys that i follow and i coach seriously i have watched everything and read everything your book that you had out very influential uh fluential i can't speak but i'm here with the great coach uh brent dearman coach thank you so much for doing this yes sir i'm fired up to get on here and talk some ball during this time of year heck yeah now coaches i don't know if you know this but he's got like cut ups and everything so what we're going to do is if you have any questions in for him put them in the chat i'm going to ask them when there's like a stoppage or whatever and coach um i will bring it up it looks like right now the screen you have there you go i'm going to add the screen take it away coach all right i'm gonna i'm gonna jump right into it if you've ever been with me before i'll tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna try it i've got two screens here so maybe i can pull this screen to the other side and that way i can see multiple things there we go we're good to go all right so i'm going to talk about how we build our rpos um this is what i show my coaches this is what i show our quarterbacks because if your quarterback doesn't understand what you're trying to do and doesn't understand what's going on then it's going to be a long year and he's gonna be hurt uh he's gonna make bad decisions so the first thing we're gonna do is we fit our rpos into our system we have a system and and i know that's a word that scares people is system well we have a system and we stick to that system now we kind of alter it every year based a little bit off of our quarterback but we're going to run inside zone power counter and buck sweep as you see right there that doesn't mean i don't like other schemes i'm not a uh i don't dislike tackle dart or dislike uh some other concepts um i'm not a great outside zone fan to be honest with you but we're gonna stick to those four schemes so our o-line can get really good at those four things and then the next thing we are we're we're a tempo team um so we try to limit our verbiage instead of having 17 word play calls a lot of our play calls are one word play calls and and the way the way i've tried to describe it i said in the book a few years ago is it's like pulling into mcdonald's i don't go into mcdonald's and say hey i want a big mac fries and a large coke i asked for a number one and they know what a number one is so the same way that your kids know the the the menu at mcdonald's is the same way that we're going to teach our our rpo system or our whole system beyond suite all right the next thing you're going to see here is why we rpo this is something that i get a lot of coaches that ask me well aren't you scared that your quarterback's gonna throw it too much no i'm not scared he's gonna throw it too much because of what i ingrain in him from day one we run the football that's why we call rpos is i want to run the ball when do you throw it you throw it when they stop the run you don't throw it just to throw five yard hitches nobody came on friday night on saturday afternoon to watch you throw five yard hitches nobody bought the price of a ticket to see you throw hitches all day you throw the ball when there is a problem in the run box and we give our quarterback a gap in everything we do our job at quarterback is to fix the run as you see there and then as you as i just said they have a gap every single play in a run game uh even if we don't put an rpo tag they have a gap if they blitz your gap what are you going to do like for example on the back side of power one thing that that i was able to hit it off with coach miles at ellis my time at kansas with um with him being an old school 22 personnel i told coach hey on power our quarterback has the backside gap when you were at lsu coach you would be under center and you turn around and you the quarterback would pitch it and then you'd turn around and block that gap well me uh out of the gun i'm either gonna have a right now throw that fixes it or the quarterback's gonna hand it and kind of fence off that backside yeah because he understands there's a gap on every single run play that is his gap we'll talk about gap scheme runs today mainly because coach mckee called me out and uh got on to me for just one to talk inside zone run so we're gonna put some gap scheme runs in the thing today here's my toolbox that i give my quarterbacks and this is something that i make sure they understand because it's easy to teach inside zone rpos it's very easy to teach and that's why a lot of us live off of inside zone rpos because it there's not holes on the inside where your quarterback can get hit so how does my what can my quarterback do i try to give them a toolbox do i need the phillips head screwdriver do i need the flathead screwdriver do i need the hammer for this job do i need the wrench for this job i give them a tool box and say all right you can pull out of that tool box what you need for that job and in in a zone scheme an inside zone there's three things that they can do in an rpo number one is they can ride read the a gap put or the d gap player the apex player that apex player maybe the sam linebacker ninety percent of coverage is through the field it's going to be the boundary safety in 90 of coverages to the boundary but we teach a gap and i'll get into that here in a second and why we teach gaps instead of reading men the second thing they can do is they can ride read the gap for a run and if you followed me at all that's kind of changed through the years when i used to teach c gatherings and d gap reads and how they were different when i'll teach if that if your gap player is a blitzer you're going to run out of it so if you're reading a c gap defensive end and he's blitzing you then you're gonna run out of it if you're reading a d gap sam linebacker and he blitzes you're gonna run out of it so they understand what their gap is and if their gap blitzes you can run the football and then the last thing you can do is make a now throw you can catch the ball and throw it right now if it's there now here's a big change and we're going to get into this big time today is in the gap scheme world there's a massive problem and if i have any o-line coaches in the room they usually give me a hallelujah or a raise the roof in the back when i start talking about the massive problem on gap scheme and that's the problems that backside hole that that guard just left from and and uh coaches is a math teacher as well i have a math degree it's all high school math for five years and in uh uh my proof my geometry proof tells me if i add a gap to the left side then there's a massive hole on the right side that's my proof and i can prove it by formula coach dearman taught me this summer all right whatever way you want to put in your proof there all right so our gap schemes i'm going to ride read the gap steel that i'm responsible for it could be that overhang apex linebacker a lot of people when they put in power they put in the spot screen out to number one that's the easiest one to usually put in off with gap scheme all right the second thing if your guy blitzes you can throw a hot throw all right if he's coming right now i don't want to ride reed anymore i may watch want to deal that spot swing right now because he's blitzing i don't want to get hit in the mouth what i like to call my quarterback says shawn michaels sweet chin music he's coming to try to knock me out and then the third thing is i can fence off pressure and if they're blitzing from that backside hot gap i can hand the ball off to the back and kind of wall off or act like i'm playing power forward and basketball and and and uh box out that backside blitzer all right the next thing we're gonna get to is our rpo questions and our questions are kind of how we build each rpo weekly if i need to uh you know we've got about 25 rpos that are in our installs as our base but then i'm going to pick about six of those every week to really hang our hat on if i'm a high school coach i probably pick four of those every week to hang my hat on because you're dealing with a little bit younger quarterback uh and then we'll try to scheme up one or two new rpos based off what that defense is going to give me every week but when i scheme up new ones here's what i've got to do i've got to teach my quarterback where you're protected that's the number one thing in dealing with an rpo is where is your franchise protected and if he doesn't know where he's protected then there is a massive problem if he doesn't understand what's going to hit him there's a massive problem in rpos number two who is the conflicted player and where's his past responsibility ever heard me talk always reference matthew chapter six and matthew chapter 6 says the lord says that you can't serve two masters he actually says you can't serve god money my version of it says you can't serve the run in the pacific okay so the lord is basically telling us in matthew 6 that the conflict of players can't do both defensive coaches trying to tell us that they can all right they can't do it it's biblical all right number three what is the answer for their secondary coverage because at the end of the day guys they're going to play their base you know some some people play at 60 times some people play 80 of them but then what is their next call and if you don't have an answer built in for that next call that they go to then you're going to be wrong 30 of the time in your rpo world so we usually put the answer to that secondary call in our rpos and and there's one guy that is the post in that read well what's the other two receivers do why are they there what is their route serving a purpose for that could be their secondary coverage all right and then number four if you've ever heard any defensive coach talk about stopping rpos it's usually these three things that they talk about number one is they are going to blitz you because they want to hit the quarterback they want him to have fear in the way that he plays the game so they want to hit him as much as possible so your quarterback better understand where he is hot uh for for us i've done in multiple ways we've been a number system in the past we've been a color system in the past it tells us kind of directions for both of those so teaching that quarterback where he's hot based off of either the number system the color system whatever you do uh the second thing is man coverage and and man coverage you can fix multiple ways the first way is in recruiting all right some of you guys get to recruit more than i do i've been to your high schools i've seen kind of your budget that you've got you recruit more than i do with the college level okay uh recruiting helps man coverage uh the second way for us that we fix man coverage is quarterback run game because nobody's eyes are in on the quarterback when they play man covered so hurting them that way and then the third thing is what we like to call i've kind of tried to patent this all right the us government has not allowed me to patent this word yet we call them answers answers are our main answers and it's a simple way to get in my quarterback's head hey when this man what are you gonna do oh i'm gonna go to my manser's coach and i have a menu of manchester's and i usually try to give him one or two a week when how many times am i gonna get caught in an rpo with them playing man it's not gonna be many so i don't wanna overload him with too much thought and then the last one is barefront what is your answer to a bear front and the other thing that is it may not technically be a bear front but this new oaky four eyes that's starting to take over the world is a bear front all right it's a four eye yeah but he's in the diagonal b gap so what they're trying to do is force things outside sea gap and get late fitters into the fit so you and your online coach need to sit down and say all right what's our best answer to bear front because we're not gonna be able to call these things against barefront but we're gonna be able to call one or two of them and be really good against that so knowing what your barefront answer is all right and here here's a simplistic form if my father ever listens to this i gotta make sure that i always go over this but uh so when i was a high school quarterback we were i was under center long time ago and when we ran veer to the right we caught 32 viewers i mean the fullback was attacking the butt of the guard that was the two uh the two location the two landmark right there all right if i was running 23 iso that means the two back the tailback was running iso at the butt of the guard right there right that's kind of out all right that old mindset is kind of out now and the way that i teach the quarterbacks is based off of a gap there are gaps in football the space between the guard and the center is the a-gap i never read an a guy player okay if i if you got a nick marshall a michael vick like player you may want to run midline we don't run midline right it's not who we are the next one's a b gap players kind of same thought i don't read the b gap player so i teach them what that gap is but we never read that gap our two reads are the c gap and the d gabriel the c gap is the space outside the tackle the d gap is the space outside of the defensive end or the uh the tight end all right i don't teach reading man i don't teach reading man because i can come out and they can play coverage that i've never seen before on tape so our quarterback knows whoever's in that space is who you're responsible for so that way if if i'm happy to be playing against uh gary patterson old school uh robber coverage that the sam is outside of the freeze inside the sam and now they're asking the free safety to be the hard fitter to the field he's my read instead of reading that sam linebacker who's no longer in the fit and he's not in conflict at all i'm wasting time and wasting energy trying to read a guy that's not in the run field that's why we teach reading a a a gap player the other thing is into the boundary into the boundary they may play cover two or trap that corner into that space where the safety is no longer the fitter so if i'm just teaching him reading the safety and that corner is continuously jumping into the fit he's making all the tackles um we have an answer to that because i'm reading the coin i'm reading the person that jumped into that space so i want to make sure that we went over kind of how we teach gaps now i've got about four or five plays and i'm gonna go through kind of quickly right here um and and then i've got the chat pulled up if i see uh some questions i'll try to answer them as quickly as possible i want to give you guys one c gap read for us one read where i'm actually going to read the defensive end you've got a running quarterback this is a nasty play but it's all based for us it's based on what our quarterback can handle if you don't think he can handle a lot i just keep it a boundary read if you're thinking hello what we do is we ask him to fix the field coverage when i say fix the field coverage is if the sam linebacker gets too tight to the box i tell him to fix it on this playbook page on day one install he fixes it with a bubble as we progress we call this a leverage all right and and uh coaches from the south as well any anybody in the south anybody who grew up in the in the southern baptist world you got this hymnal and they had a song called deep and wide right deep and wide right that's how we define leverage right leverage is made of depth and width so i may not love a bubble but you know what you may love you may love an out route you may love a stick route your job is to fix the field if that d-gap player is too tight to the box we now call that a leveraged throw whatever leverage throw you like you just throw it and you better be at about 90 to 95 completion percentage throwing leveraged throws because if we're not we're wasting our time and i'm just gonna bring those receivers in a little bit tighter and they're gonna start blocking because you are wasting plays and you're getting me in second intent and i'm not as good of a coordinator in second and ten as i would like to be okay the next thing if i if i eliminate that let's say the sam is not tight enough to the fit the free is not tight enough to the fit i eliminate that side of the field and then i go to the boundary c gap reading my c gap player is usually the defensive end against an odd frauds that overhangs standing band and our fullback is going to arc release him veer release him and he's looking for scraper to safety because the first job that he's going to do is protect our franchise and if they scrape the backer you got to block that guy because i'd rather my quarterback get hit by a safety than he would an inside linebacker all right if that end collapses the space and takes the back then the quarterback pulls and he runs flat out of it instead of running downhill why why do we run flat out of it immediately because i need to get the corners eyes and if i can get that corner to fall off this go ball throw then i can throw a touchdown throw over the top now this x receiver reads this play and his eyes on an outside release are on this safety the corner matters nothing to him if that safety gets in the fit he stays on his go if that safety goes cover two over the top he sits it down at a ten yard window on the sideline that way we get a whole shot throw right there all right so i kind of tried to explain as much as i could this is an inside zone blocking scheme this is one of our only inside zone blocking schemes that i put in this thing all right you see this goes back to my 2018 bethel days right there had to get an naia shout out in the building right here all right that sam linebacker is too tight to the fifth so my quarterback said all right i've got to make a leveraged throw i've got to fix that sam i got to fix the d-gap player but with that corner off we're going to throw the bubble if that corner was tight probably wouldn't the a bubble probably would have thrown a stick route probably would have thrown an out route probably could have thrown the spot let him go block then right there we've got a lot of options in the toolbox i'm gonna ask him which depth and width uh makes sense for that leverage throw anytime i can sing an old hymnal in my cuba qb room i try to get to the old image all right you're able to see we throw the bubble we fumble that goes back to ball screw i'm not talking about ball screw today though okay all right look i put i try to put as much mtsuf in here as i could represent the blue raiders right you see it here ball's in the middle of the field this is a boundary rpo so this is our boundary receiver right here we're filled in boundary base all right so can the y block the sound is what my quarterback is going to ask yes i think he can so there's no reason to fix that with a leveraged throw so we go to our boundary zone read great job by the fullback right here of a dick step a beer release step and then his job is to outrun the will or the safety to his outside pad and you're seeing him continue to expand because that quarterback comes out flat he looks at the corner the corner's got man eyes man eyes means he's never gonna fall off so it tells him to take off running tucks it and he continues following that fullback and we get a big play all right a little side note right here for my tempo based teams watch what our qb does at the end of this all right got that stole this from from other coaches instead of us handing that ball to this referee on the sideline we take the football to the stripes in the middle of the field because he's going to then spot it immediately if we give it to this guy out here he may fumble it he may take all day he may make a bad pass to his buddy in there on the hash and i can't go as fast as i want to so if you're a tempo based team that's something that we practice at practice is getting that ball to a ref in the middle of the field so we can go faster all right we're running inside zone no line coaches get mad at me because i don't always watch the butt shot okay uh excuse me my dad was an o-line coach for 42 years so you that gives me a little bit of leeway that i can bypass the bus shot every night all right same deal i'm going to ask myself is the sam linebacker in the fit i don't think he is he's seven yards off he's a little bit wide that's called depth and width that's called leverage so i think my slot receiver can block him he gets in there to block him we get a dick step veer release right here by this second tailback quarterback pulls it watch his departure angle he departs flat out of it because i want a chance to throw a touchdown ball all right we see man eyes so then he tucks it and that tailback wins on the outside pad we get an explosive play right there by our quarterback all right the other thing we do is we run inside zone and our tackle's job is to not let the dn touch him so you see a veer release but you see him uh slipping that defensive end his job is to try to win inside pad of that will linebacker now what we another thing we do if that will linebacker scrapes he chases him because he's got the inside path of will linebacker i tell him if he goes to sideline and go gets water you go with him but you better win on his inside pad uh when i go with him i get another one here our quarterback decided to fix the leverage to the field right here after he fixed it this guy said you know what i've seen that signal before so i'm going to get a little bit wider so when he gets a little bit wider the quarterback said all right i fixed it i don't have to throw that leverage though if i give a signal to throw it but i knew that he widened because he saw me give a signal to him so we're running a bubble here we don't have to throw it but it that uh the signal alone just made them expand out of that gap qb pulls it we attack corner continues to get depth so we're able to get the quarterback run we try to do qb runs um a few times a game i don't want my quarterback running too much because like i said he's my franchise that position is so valuable you don't want that guy banged up but i need to do it just enough that the defensive coordinator can't play me in cover one the whole game [Music] all right one more all right they end up blitzing us here but we tempo and we paste i'd like for him to fix this with some type of leverage though over here to the field uh but we're tempo in it so he doesn't see it we get a pull because the end squeeze the corners eyes are in the backfield so when we pull flat out of there corner falls off and we're able to throw the goal ball here's one rule you need to teach your quarterback never overthrow a wide open man so if if this guy comes open don't lead him way up field on this ball if you have to slow him down and make this catch i don't want to waste a 30-yard gain because you decide to try to throw a goal ball like it's a true passing game concept on this place i want to always make sure this is a completion when we do thunders all right i'm gonna read uh uh as i'm going on here i've got a question here how do you respond defenses in slow play right slow pay means they can't get in the fit right now so that means four or five yard run so i love slow play slow play uh is what i'm trying to do i'm trying to get them to slow play all right another thing i can't do it out of this set with two tailbacks but another thing that we've done over the last couple years coach i think talked to me right before we may have did this a few years back about four or five years ago we have went to the pistol a lot more when i go to the pistol a lot more they cannot determine which side my back is going to run the inside zone from so that makes them slow play even more so me as a son of an o-line coach i like slow play slow play means run football that helps you a little bit right there all right next concept all right uh is one of our big ones it's a day one install for us you hear me if you've heard me talk before this one that we love uh it's the inside zone flats concept we're gonna block my quarterback learns it this way i'm gonna protect you from c gap to c gap all right it takes me back to uh another song from c to shining c all right we're going to protect you from c to shining c on inside zone right here your job is to fix a d gap it doesn't matter which way i could call 12 or 13 i could call red or black green or blue whichever side whatever makes you go right and left with your o line right here doesn't matter which direction you go on this play that's why i love it because there's a post snap on either side this outside route is called a gift if i'm a high school coach i'm probably not throwing speed outs to the field to my number one receiver i'm probably going to change that to a hitch or something like that at my level i hopefully can recruit guys that can make that throw this throw is called a gift a gift it's called a proposal now in our in in the blue raiders quarterback room a proposal means you've been dating her a few years you've talked to her dad you've gotten his approval you're in love with her you're ready to drop down on one knee if you're not ready to do all that so if i ever ask you in the film room do you love that gift right out there and you stutter or you pause it's the same thing i'm gonna do for you is if i ask you for your girlfriend hey are you ready to propose and if you go uh then i'm gonna recommend you don't propose yet all right so that's how we describe that outside gift wrap if you're not in love with her don't throw her okay you're in love with her you catch and throw right now now one of these either the stick route or the boundary speed out one of them is the pre-snap answer and one of them post-snap answers and here's how you know as my quarterback whichever way i turn you with the run tells you the side of the post now so right here i'm turning you to the left by running inside zone right so that means the post snap is the boundary that means the pre-snap is the field if we were happen to run an inside zone left by chance then that just changes my pre and my post now this side now would be my post now and my boundary is my pre-snap answer okay so let's watch a little bit of tape right here against the iowa state cyclones a lot of the three high three safety defense all right i'm looking at my speed guy to the field i'm saying am i in love with her is that a beautiful concept that has nothing to do with the box that has nothing to do with fixing the d-gap player has zero to do with that i've simplified it where if you love it you throw it and right here he loved it so he threw it like i said earlier leverage those you better be 90 to 95 completion percentage on leverage those if i do a study and we're not we're going to eliminate that throw that is a pointless throw if we're not completing a high percentage chance right there all right so now let's look at another thing all right if you're a defensive coach in the room i think you have to leave the room at this moment all right you have to vacate the the facility we're running inside zone to the right here so my quarterback knows i'm protected from c to c all right we have the gift route out here which i don't love i've got a low corner so there's no reason to fall in love with that thing she does not have a good personality so i'm not going to go on another date with her all right so i have the sticker out here i have a speed out here this is my post snap side that's awful waves fail right there post snap so this is my pre-snap answer so let's go back to the toolbox real quick and my toolbox has a pre and a post snap side to them and what does that mean coach uh somebody chase asked me earlier about slow fitters well let me teach you a little bit of the defense this is a defensive clinic too jason all right when i turn my back to this side of the field these guys are taught now to fast fit because i wouldn't listen to a couple of their because they come and listen to my clinics i go listen to their clinics too okay so they're gonna teach fast fit so you know what i'm starting to teach i'm starting to teach if you know you want to throw that stick show your back to him use his rules against him get him in the fit by showing his football i'm not reading that guy i can't read all right you take this write this one down use this in your qb rim i tell my qb you can't read it to your brown hole all right i got two eyes on the front side i got a brown hole on the back side i can't read out of my backside all right so this decision was already made that i'm throwing this field stick so he flashes it and deals it because he got the guy in the fit when he flashed it because they're taught to fast fit all right if you've ever been to clinton with me before or talked with me before i don't hide much all right i will give you about everything in my wallet i try to but a couple little cents i keep in my back pocket just in case but everything else i usually share so you see i'm getting that that guy on the fit right there another look we just tried to hide our tail back here's we're now running inside zone left here c2c protection this is now my pre-snap this is the gift i don't like the gift she's being pressed out there so now i'm post snapping the d-gap player with this stick route right there oh there it is chase they slow fit so what a slow fit tell your quarterback to do it means hand the ball off all right so the two fitters or that guy on that guy and you see when the ball is being handed neither in the fit they're slow fitting so slow flip usually means four or five yard run and we get probably four that means our line needs to be better right there but sometimes their d-line is better than your life but we got everybody that's fitting the wrong block in this situation now i tell my quarterback here's another thing you can use right if you go to an outside event close to the beach and you look up on the on on the railing there's little uh bags there's like ziploc bags out there which are track flies i don't know if any of y'all have ever known that me being from mobile alabama you can hang bags outside and flies would go towards those bags so anytime my quarterback gets somebody's eyes with a fake we call it a fly count you attracted somebody away from the dinner you attracted somebody away from the run play so that's a fly count so in practice we compete for fly counts who can have the most flies in this practice today and quarter you what i love is it helps quarterbacks carry out their fakes a little bit more by having a little competition every day all right coach is showing an rpo that he hadn't thrown the ball yet on the post now i got to throw it one time all right so you see it's we're on the same play c got the c gap protection here's the post snap right here here's the d gap player i'm reading he gets in the fit and we're able to throw right now now coach why are you running out turning stick because another question a lot of people ask why don't you just run a hitch because i don't want him drifting in because i don't need this guy to be able to play both that's why we out turn another reason why we out turn right and and run him on speed out is a lot of people now run this to read coverage where the corner is reading the release of two right so by running two out turning routes at corners in a bind where he's got to expand a little bit and we sit it instead of running out so we don't get his head knocked off by that cover two trigger corner so that kind of answers all things now for the o-line coaches in the room i will watch the butt shot on this play just for you because my o-line coaches were a little frustrated me on this play because as you see this tailback has been in the back side this is beer we're running here at the end of the run backside b gap right now and the fitter probably wouldn't have made this tackle but i never second guess my quarterback all right whatever he does you gotta pat him on the rear end and make that guy feel confident in the decisions that he makes all right one alternative right here coach you go with me for time right here coach i have got all day do not feel pressed at all i am soaking it all in i've already got three questions i mean three pages full and coaches seriously before he gets into if you have any questions put them in chat i know a lot of y'all are writing all of this down this will be up for a replay so you can come back and uh watch this don't write notes you have a genius here ask questions all right coach that's it you take it away beautiful all right so another alternative to that exact same play because what i like to do is run the same place but out of different ways all right instead of creating a new daggum rolodex every week i'm going to do my role of that so i'm going to change some up so about halfway through spring ball about halfway through your season everybody's scheming up you run an inside zone this way so then we change them we run same side zone all right we're still running the same rpo there there and the stick route but now instead of us running inside zone left on this way i'm now taking my tail back and running a midline like path so i open my quarterback to a 90 degree angle right here so it's still the same exact play we just said you know what we're just going to run it different today and white the reason why i like it this way because instead of how slow it takes the tailbone to go there the tailback is running a right now path and that makes that sam linebacker getting the fit immediately all right so there again chase if they want a slow fit running same side inside zone hits immediately so it's even a faster gain and gets that guy to be faster in his fit by going the same side so i threw one of those clips in there as well all right let's get to all right another concept we run a glance and there's three ways we run this glance i'm gonna show inside zone just one time but then i'm gonna show you with power and then i'm gonna show you with uh inside zone iso concept with the pullback inserts inside to run the same exact plate now for us all we do is attach eight to it eight for us is on our route tree a skinny post or a skinny a five step glance over here these two guys are running double slams now what is that right there for that right there is your leverage throw because i'm never going to pre-snap a glance i know some people that pre-snap glasses i can't live with myself at night throwing a third level throw that i pre-snapped it okay so this is always going to be my post snaps out so weekly i'm going to change my leverage my leverage may be double slash week one it may be go flat week two it may be spot screen week three so i can play with my leveraged side my pre-snap side so for us this double slant the inside slant is a answer for pressure the outside slant is still that gift proposal route right if you like one of those if you have pressure you can deal it if you love the outside though you can deal all right i think you got one look of one of those uh on here into the boundary now it's a d gap read d gap means the corner it could mean the safety all right instead of just telling the safety it could be either guy all right little d2 days going back to the arkansas tech days 2015 or 2017 off of this clip against monticello arkansas they gave me an off corner outside so we're running double slants right here the outside slants there so you see he just catches and throws we're still running split zone inside so me you're never going to catch me just calling double slants much in a game uh off of pass pro i'm going to call double slants for some type of rpo so that i'm always throwing it when it's the best look the same exact play 2018 bethel wildcats i saw a bethel wildcat in the in the chat room a while ago they're bringing field pressure and that's one answer that's one thing that hurts this place feel pressure because my o-line's got to push out and when they got to push out to the zone side that means there's somebody in the box that we can't block so by adding the the hot answer you essentially fix the box for your quarterback and we throw the inside hot slant right there now what is he doing he's flashing that ball i don't advise splashing the ball on the hot though just be honest with you all right if you do that you're on your own all right so you cannot sue me you gotta tell them i make them sign an agreement all right let's get to uh uh 20 20 21 the new a new uh decade right here we're back in 2021 we got the double slants right here we got the glance coming from the boundary you see as i'm reading chase they're slow fitting me i love slow fit now quarterback is wrong he ends up pulling this but he fast fits after he pulls it so we get lucky our left tackle it's a it's a non-padded day so our left tackle didn't want to smash the defensive end so i understand where he's at right here but we're able to hit the glance but i would love this ball to have been handed off based off of this fitter not fitting immediately all right so off that same concept we run the power but now i have to teach it differently i can't teach it the same way to my quarterback anymore even though it's the same rpo it is taught different because i'm taking a backside gap and i'm adding it to the front side of the plate so that means massive negative off the backside edge we actually call this the hot gap like a little reference to 300 the hot gates right there all right that's the hot gap that there's any pressure backside it will hit you if you try to throw a lathe though we have to understand that now we've changed our tackles rules backside on gap scheme too instead of true gap seal hinge we're more one step and locking on the defensive end because for my quarterback if one of these two guys come that's on you so if he blitzes here and if he's not an immediate blitzer then that's on the quarterback to either hand it or throw his hot slant right now now i'm not going to go over power everybody knows what power is but i'm going to show you a look of us running here's here's the uh double slant concept here's the glance and we just quick motion to glance to try to get off corner corner this this day and we're running 11 personnel one back power and they're listening to sam linebacker they're bringing a field blitz right here the quarterback sees the field blitz and throws his inside slam nope not gonna hit me from the backside but why did he do that he did that because i've over taught him what the height gap is on on gap scheme hey gav skin what's the major problem major problems the back side major problems the back side major problems the backside and if i over teach him that then hopefully on friday night he doesn't get sean michael's sweet 10 music on that bag on blitz all right now the next way i don't have the the playbook version just but i'll draw it up for you the next way that we're going to run that same concept is uh zone lock iso we have a one word call i'm not gonna tell everybody all my one word calls but it's zone like i said we're running inside zone right we're gonna lock one and lock two and now my fullback is gonna iso the backside linebacker so instead of running true inside zone it gives me another scheme to run this now coach you don't you can't do this there's double slants you don't have a double slant to the field in this 21 set well here's the rule your rules don't change my quarterback just figures out i don't have an inside slam what that inside slant do it fix the hot gap well i don't need a hot gap fix anymore because i have a tight end over there and the tight end's going to block the d gap so by formation i can still stay in the same world where this guy is the slam but he's blocking what did the outside slam why was he there he was there as a gift he's still the gift so i can get 21 percent now i put my best receiver to the field if they play off on him i'm going to throw it all day long okay and then i still have the post stamp glance and the boundary based off the e-gap fitter now they end up stunning and bringing the wheel linebacker so it looks like i'm running split zone right here so don't chew me out it was split zone iso and to prove it to you i will show you another clip all right going back to 2017 in arkadelphia arkansas if you ever ever been there it's just slightly above monticello arkansas as one of the hottest worst places in the world to have a september game okay so i've got a leveraged concept to the field this week we changed our leverage concept to running uh a smash answer sand linebacker was too tight corn is off i throw that okay so that was built into the field instead of running double slams now we have the glance into the boundary we're running zone lock iso and you're seeing my larry zaka uh tom rathman like h back fullback gets to do what he loves now and run iso now why do we run split zone iso coach why don't you just put him in that b gap and go straight ahead because i don't want to be sued for cte 20 years from now so i'm going to give him an advantage to come and hide a little bit and pick a side instead of old school straight iso hit him in the mouth right there all right i almost closed down my i cut up gotta go back to that all right so we're able to throw what are you doing i gotta go back fine sorry bear with me i'll find it real quick while you're doing that we had a couple of questions i wanted to go ahead and get in yeah first joe wanted to know what are you teaching your quarterback to do with their feet and stance when you tell them to show us back to the defender all right uh i don't over coach that all right all i do is i tell him to turn his front shoulder down to the back i don't want to put the ball in the belly i don't want to do the ride all i want to do is turn my shoulders my feet shouldn't move because i don't want my feet to overturn and then have to come all the way back so i'm going to keep my feet where they're at because he's not watching my feet he's watching my shoulders and my head okay so i'm just going to turn my shoulders so then i can just already have my feet ready to turn and make that though all right that helps you out yes sir all right we got another one uh anthony basically wants to know why did you go from the pistol or go from the shotgun to the pistol i went to the pistol because in 27 2016 spring i walked down the hall and i heard my dc and my d-line coach at arkansas tech debating how they were going to play the tailback when the tailback was to the boundary they were going to play it this way with the tailbox through the field they were going to play it this way and but just by hearing their conversation i went down the hall to my running back coach said hey let's work the pistol today just so we can screw the guys on the other side of the ball in spring ball and ended up loving it because exactly that reason because they try to do so much pre-snap recognition of where your tailback's at when you go pistol it slows all that down where they now have to figure everything out now pre-snap or post-snap so that's why we do it okay um next question i'll let you get to this because i i've fallen in love with this is what you want to do it is uh john wants to know when you change to the inside zone on the same side front side do you adjust the techniques protection of the blockers with the running back getting there faster um the o-line has no idea that it's anything different they're still running inside zone they're still going to double team to the backers the same way they're going to hang on that double team as long as humanly possible the only thing that now we tell that tailback is he is going through the left leg we're going inside zone left he's going at the left side leg of the center quarterback's going to move off the midline so the mesh changes a little bit for the quarterback and the tailback now instead of over complicating reads to quite possibly your best athlete in your school who's your tailback we make it simple on that kid and he reads the butt of the center i've got people that tell me read the second d line and read heck no all right i was a high school coach and i had high school running backs that i had to make sure they were in class every day all right that i i followed around school i'm not over complicating for that dude we're going to track the blood of the center and we're going to cut off of it as simple as it is so if we're running either way inside zone his eyes are still chasing the butt of that center that helps you out okay all right coaches i'll ask you a question keep asking them we talked off air i love the buck sweep this uh this spring so i'm looking forward to this take it away coach all right so i learned i spent two years at auburn with coach malzon and as everybody knows gus malzahn is a big believer and a lover of the buck suite and and it goes back to him being a high school football coach and he started running wing t as a high school coach and learned how to run it out of the shotgun so we're running wing t bug sweep out of the shotgun this is not and i don't advise anybody because i don't me me looking at it there's nobody in conflict on a buck suite so i do not rpo with the bug screen it is very difficult to rp of the buck sweep and i'll tell you why because to truly run the buck sweep i need a receiver to crack the box and to seal the box so we're gonna get about a four or five yard split from the tackle by that single receiver right there he's going to take a one-step slant and his job is to seal the first linebacker the first thing inside the box anything hairy just seal it okay your full back h-back tight end his job is to go directly at the defensive end and when he goes directly at the defensive end he allows the dn to make the decision and if the end is a hard squeeze he then seals him in if the end is an upfield player he then keeps him out all right so we're not trying to force this thing our hvac goes right at him and then we play off of him because our guards read the block of the hvac okay so we're always right the key to the play though is the hvac has to stay engaged he cannot come off of that block you have to stay engaged our front side tackle is gap down rules all right he's running power he's running counter to him he's gapped down in the first thing in his gap all right but he's got to serve two masters he can't allow penetration on his first step and then his second step he can't allow a guy to come over the top so that's a tough job that we're asking him to do all right by trying to do that if the front side guard does not have an a-gap player he's going to do what we call a question mark pull or he's going to get or he's going to try to scrape paint off the fullback unless the fullback is expanding if the pullback is expanding you get up inside of it the pullback squeezes it you scrape paint off of him and then get vertical and then go kick out because you weigh 300 pounds that the defensive back that you're going to kick out is 180 and is a lot more of an athlete than you are if you try to go right at him he's usually going to make you miss so we cut that away and we force him to stay outside by getting vertical and then going to kick out keeping him outside of us right there the center's blocking back the backside tackles got a gap seal hinge and now our backside guard is now uh the reader of everything the backside guard is the fixer right he's the cure to cancer essentially on this play he's going to try to get about two to three yards depth on a hybrid pull it's a dip it's between an l pull and a skid pull it's not a power pull it's not a trap pull it's a it's a kind of a mixture of both and he's pulling for the backside backer here's the tough part you pick him up whenever he shows up so if he blitzes through this a gap you pick him up right there if you don't get him until you get all the way around this thing then that's where you pick him up but at the end of the day you have that backside back unless and i'll give you an unless rule and i put this in here let's say they they switch this front on us like this now our front side guard has an a-gap player and there's some people that pull their center or stuff like that we don't do that okay that frontside guard is now going to make a i'm here call saying hey i'm not pulling anymore so we're going to make a pass off i'm going to block down that means this tackle is actually going to block down and get the backside back so the your your guard your man has been blocked with the gap down rule so now you have to become the question mark we switched jobs and you take off on a nail pull now and now you are the kick out player when we pass things off in that different front right there our tailback is going to be offset he's going to come up and across and his job is to find the butt of that backside guard the backside guard takes him to the hole and what i love about this play is this thing hits a gap b gap c gap or loops around the whole plate this can go anywhere and if you watch all these clips you're going to say that's not the same play it is the same play because it can go anywhere because that guard fixes everything now as i said earlier i don't rpo this i know some people that try to rp the mic there's a problem the mic is not in conflict here the mic has zero responsibility to this two receiver set so by rp on the mic you're you're kind of wasting it right here they actually can outdo you because they have three hats over two hats so the mike's not in conflict mike has zero rule to get out over those two guys so what we do is we run uh some type of leverage throw here all right as you see our first lever stow of install is double slams i put another example of a leverage though built into this cut up as well all right but this inside slant is a hot why do you have a hot there well here's the problem what hurts bug sweet one thing that hurts buck sweep is field pressure and you're gonna think what are you talking about coach how does field pressure hurt buck sweet feel pressure hurts buck sweet because you are killing your o-line because if they blitz from here that means he's going there he's crossing the server's face he's crossing tackle's face and i just told you earlier i'm asking the center and the right tackle to serve two masters they've got to stop penetration that's the number one thing they got to do so when they hard step this way try to stop penetration and that d-lineman loops over the top of them it's rare that they're going to get them i'm going to be honest with you and it's going to be a bad run so this slant right here actually fixes a bad run right has nothing to do with an rpo it's actually a run fix right there the outside slant is still the gift on the outside right there and then you can build whatever leverage though you want to on the other side of the box suite i try to hide my full back on this play he comes in motion right here that way i can guarantee um the seal block because i hide him outside that defensive end so we can crash the end down this week do you love the slant do you love this is it are you hot to throw this lamp probably not so neither leverage is great with those slants getting pressed they actually corner cat us which i'm fine with because the first guard what's your rule is to kick out whatever the first thing is outside the box so when you blitz into this play it is okay it's still a good play you see my my receiver is going to crack the first thing he think is in the box and then the backside guard is going to pull for the mic and you get him whenever he shows so what ends up happening is this extra hat has to figure out where in the heck to fit this run and that's why everybody loves this run is because everything is so cluttered up where does this guy fit does he fit in here does he try to fit there does he try to fit there and you in the back can wait wait wait wait wait and then burst and make a play and you're asking your athletic tailback to be an athlete and make a great play going back to my auburn days i tried to put another clip of a good pull but then here's a leverage though coach i know you've talked about the past on the spot screen so this is what we did this week we do just the spot screen right here that just was a number based play where we said all right we're going to block the force guy and then we're going to see how many numbers they put out there they've got numbers out there so we should have a good run and you're seeing the fullbacks stay engaged right let's watch the butt shot one of our our bloodshots that quarterback coach dearman is going to show we've got to stay engaged right here we're going to down block here we're going to down block there we're staying engaged we're going to seal the first thing in the box with the receiver we're going to question mark pull kick out if it expands we can get up inside the backside guard is pulling for the backside backer he's going to get a depth about two or three yards on this hybrid pull and he can pick him up anywhere and you get to see the fullback had to expand the backside guard saw it and came up inside to pick that block up and believe it or not this thing actually hits a gap with how this tailback hits this part so the tailback is fully reading the guard of the backside linebacker that's a lot to get a five yard run right there all right then you can add motion to this play and you see us run a orbit motion to run buck sweep to the field i'm still going to run some type of leverage answering out of my single we're going to crack the first thing in the box now with our field receiver fullback's still doing his job but now what you get is you get bad eyes because of the motion and now we have an a-gap player with an a-gap player we make the i'm here call says all right we're down we're down all the way to the back side so now you have to be the question mark puller on this play and you see the motion brought flies away from the run fullback stays engaged the backside guard sees that reads it gets up inside to go on his kick out and that seal block a seal block doesn't have to be a knockout usually if you try to teach a knockout block number one it's a penalty almost every day now and number two he's going to whiff that's more of a the same way your center is going to try to do a back block it's the same exact way we're going to do that and you see that tailback just finds the guard's butt and makes a big play there so that's our buck sweep um i'm gonna hit stop sharing now i'll try to go and see if there's any more questions we got a couple we got a couple um first off thank you so much man that was amazing and i'm gonna go back and uh watch some more buck cut ups and coaches if you haven't already in the link of the description is coach's course it is unbelievable i watch it at least once a week almost and it you need to check it out if you want to learn more it's right down there in the description um i saw one where was it at uh here we go about the glance would you check off the glance into a go route if the backside wide receiver gets a press look what i do is is i'm a math teacher all right and i also in my younger days living in mobile alabama spent too much time in biloxi mississippi at the hard rock casino and and what what you do when you throw fade balls is exactly it's a statistic it's a 50 50 throw and me being a numbers guy i do not like 50 50. 50 50 means i'm gonna win half the time and i don't like winning half the time i like winning more often than i lose that's why i don't go to the casino anymore i used to love going and playing blackjack but i figured i lost more than i would win so i do not check into faith balls when that glance happens i will um i will find other ways as you saw from that tape i may do a quick motion so i get off coverage i'm going to find formations that i get off coverage i'm going to find motions that i get off coverage that helps you out yes sir another one how are you teaching the wide receivers to run the glance route it's a five-step slant that's the easiest way i've ever taught it is your job is to get five steps vertical and then you come as flat as you need to the same way you do on a slant so that you've got a tight corner and you're worried about him under cutting it then you need to run it like a dig if that corner is off and outside you can run it more with a 45 degree angle so it's fine five step slants the best way i've learned okay uh joel loves your uh explanation for the rpo out of the pistol i freaking yes i i agree i i like the pistol as well and i when people would ask me i didn't know how to respond i'm glad that you responded the way you did because now i'm going to take that and i'm going to say that i came up with it so you were the freaking man we all steal something from somebody at some point like all right uh rodney wants to know what is the difference to you between buck sweep and pin and pull all right buck sweep you're involving the receiver in the crack the the receivers coming in to truly get a crack sweep is the buck sweep uh nfl-based pin and pull is more of a it's kind of a hybrid between the zone and the gap scheme because somebody's going to pull to get the support um and then we've got a zone or the second pull is pulling for the place eye backer and the receiver just either runs off or gets the d-gap player so you're blocking the same guys but you're doing it in a different way i like the bug sweep because i like angles i like uh the receiver setting the edge to that play and also gives a chance for our big body receiver to go in there and get his nose dirty every now and then too and it's be honestly it sets up some nasty play actions um off of when you run in buck suite okay um eli wants to know do you coach the backside guard to get depth in the pool into the backfield why or why not yes we're gonna try to get about two and a half yards of depth on that plate he doesn't get that two and a half yards depth he's not going to see that linebacker when he needs to see him so it is uh that that's probably the toughest pull that we have uh in our offense be honest with you okay you got an alumni in the chat right there chase wants to know do you ever run into problems with ineligible lawn men getting downfield and i want to i want to wrap that into your whole rpo because that's one of the things i hear a lot about is illegal man down the field coaches want to run rpos but they're really worried about that what is your response to people that ask you because i know you probably get that asked all the time i get about two calls a year because either i try to design plays that are quick hitters um or we we over coach our line over coaches spending time on the double team you know i've run into o-line coaches that are more just true gap on their inside zone for us as man we have man blocking rules essentially on the inside zone and we we make the back make us right on the double team so we hang on that double team as long as humanly possible now at high school you probably can get o lyme in the every now and then get a d lime and they can completely uproot it is rare in college football to have a d lime and completely uprooted because the the level is so similar of athletes so for us we don't get alignment downfield calls that much usually my two a year is when my my quarterback was indecisive pulled it double clutched held it so usually our alignment downfield calls is because our quarterback made a bad or a late decision okay um dustin wants to know when in pistol do you prefer the rpo on the front side of the defense or the back side uh it really depends on on which uh d gap they're trying to fit the fastest if they're um it's based off of their coverage more more than anything so i don't have a preference okay we'll go either way all right um byron wants to know how do you drill like if the is there one drill if anybody's running the rpo that they need to run this every single day or do you have multiple drills that you spread out throughout the week i have a drill tape and i'll tell you what i'll actually pull up a couple real quick you're okay with that like i said dude i am i am fine this is amazing i appreciate you doing this what's up so i've got a couple drills just to show you the screen real quick oh about two times a week and of course now uh old dv sport is telling me not responding so give me just a second share my screen there you go environment email me you know you could email me it's already up all you gotta do all right let's pull them there we go all right so i'm gonna hit uh a couple drills here that we're gonna do all the time all right that's mechanics don't wanna hit mechanics all right here's two that you're gonna see us do about two or three times a week all right number one i call it walking turns because in in order for me to play quarterback i've got to be a short stop in baseball essentially um you've got to have quick hips and quick hands so i've got to constantly work quick hips and quick hands so the first one here you're going to see is walking turns it's very simple very easy it's in our warm-up every day i'm going to take three steps away from my target right left right and on that third step right left right on my third step i've got to flip my hips around and that forces me to make that that dramatic hip flip throw to finish through over the top of my toe right there so that's that's a simple way to me work a hip flip in the rpo game all right another one that i do is called an angle flip i just started doing this one here recently is this is going to help me in my progressions but it also helps in your rpos and your hip flip is i point these three guys in a direction so you're going to hit a shuffle drop and when i make a ball call or a clap because i like them working over reaction so you're seeing me clap here right when i clap they then flip to make their their throw to their target all they're doing is turn into a baseball all right the first baseman has made a throw and they're they're quick catching it and they're getting it out at second base to turn two so that that would be the first time food right the next time food you see they get the ball back they make that same exact foe but i i make it clap at a different time but then i change their angle i say all right we're all good y'all dropping this one now i want you to drop this way but i want you to drop as if you're a wrong-hander all right so these two are righties and they're acting like they're lifting this this guy's my lefty he's acting like he's a right-hander and his drop so what does that do it forces a complete 180 in my hip flip to do that so i change their direction every day this is something that you can do on the edd they're in special teams get your quarterbacks to do go do these drills to work their hips and then the last one is i'm gonna work it's called rapid firewall you you can also call this the old west trail right i'm gonna ask my quarterback who survived in the old west the guy that survived in the old west was the guy that had the quickest hands because he drew that gun the fastest out of the holster so i gonna have three targets i'm gonna label them one two three just like that the first ball you're gonna throw to one the second ball you throw the two third ball you throw three your hands are behind your back and you're gonna quick draw i put the ball at face level and as soon as i drop is when you can pull your gun out of its holster right there your job is a catch and get it out quick turn to a baseball now the one thing i love that i put on the quarterbacks is i stay in front of them and you see me right here put a hand in their face what does that do it forces them to make an awkward throw or an off platform different arm angle throw right there makes them feel pressure in their face there it is again i put both hands up in front of his face he now has to throw that thing around me to get to his target so that way when we get a game i can't ever say i never put you in that situation i never made you feel uncomfortable so you had to make that awkward throw so we're working so many things in those three drills right there i try to do those three drills at least two or three times a week and now i come at him and i actually force him off the spot to make that throw so those are three drills byron that we're going to live off of and do all the time if that helps out yes sir those are awesome man um eli wants to know what's the quarterback running back footwork on the rpo from pistol on buck you don't run a rpo how would you run it from pistol we don't run in that pistol okay i would hide it uh we can get in pistol and right before a snap you can buzz him over but we've never rented out a pistol i'm sure that i could probably try to configure a way to do it we just never have okay two more questions coach and then i'd we are good uh i want to ask one right here coach wants to know do you have any issues with dns in the throwing lanes at a pistol do you have any all right so what we do is we tell our full bike anytime we attach an rpo uh your job is to block the defensive end so i know a lot of people are inside zone base and they tell that fullback to duck walk straight through and if you get a pass rushing in stay on path well uh that's all cool until that end hits your quarterback so anytime i put an rpo you have a man on the defensive end so if he goes to the sideline you go with it all right so what that does is that kind of helps eliminate that dn getting the quarterback's face when we do that stuff okay and i want to ask this one because i'm curious as well what's your favorite play action off of buck suite all right our favorite players two favorite players off bucks week is you you uh put some type of high low concept to the field off the block it could be smash it could be go flat it could be cell concept you create some type of hollow over there and then uh off the play action fake we actually pull both our guards on it to get the linebackers to flow but our single receiver off the back side goes in the box like he's cracking and then basically runs white cross but out of our x receiver so he's going diving down at that angle so we get both of those boundary fitters fall off thinking the bucks come and get the linebackers to fit it because the guards are pulling and then we run the cross right there so we go high low concept to the crosser is um our favorite play action off the book i love that well coach thank you so much for doing this man i appreciate it uh i'm gonna go back and watch this over it what's the best if coaches wanted to get in touch with what's the best way is it through email or is it through twitter uh either one um okay anytime to help get the logo out there uh for us in recruiting anytime anybody can give us a twitter shout out we always love it that's awesome for us but but then my email address is brent dot dearman mtsu.edu okay feel free to reach out there's some of these things i have this pdf i can share with you as well i have my quarterback drill tape that i can share out to guys as well okay coaches i'm gonna i'm gonna tweet out tagging him retweet that so we can get everybody out and know how great uh the staff is up there and the program and just get get it out there for recruiting all right so be on the lookout for that coach thank you so much for doing this again and i will see y'all later coaches

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Published: Fri May 28 2021