FLY OFFENSE

DEFENSES DO NOT LIKE THE FOLLOWING:

 Motion
 Shifting
 No Huddle
 Deception—Teams that Hide the Football
 Unbalanced Formations
 Players in Space—1 on 1 tackling

4 GAPS

 A GAP—C--G
 B GAP—G--T
 C GAP—T--TE
 D GAP—TE—Sideline(biggest gap to defend). Money play is the sweep.

Gene Beck invented. Phil Moss taught to Speckman.

WHY FLY?

 No Book On It—people don't understand it

 Adaptable to any offense
 Adaptable to any personnel
 Not a precision offense—very forgiving
 Doesn't demand a lot from linemen for successful plays
 Opponents only have 1 week to prepare
 Is team oriented—even “stars” must fake and it builds character
 Has a progression
 Helps all parts of passing game—simplifies protections
 Deception is a lost art in football
 Create an image

HALLMARKS OF CHAMPIONSHIP OFFENSES

 Eliminate turnovers
 Eliminate sacks—protect QB
 Have ability to be balanced (Run, Pass, Field)
 Stop the swarm
 Get ball into space
 Score points against any defensive scheme
 Cause defense to play vanilla

WILLIAMETTE U. OFFENSIVE PHILOSOPHY

 Deception “Even a dead man can fake”
 Difficult to key one player
  Difficult to simulate in practice
 Logical progression—must stop sweep
 Simplicity within complexity—Few plays/lots of formations
 Fun

THE SWEEP
 Key play-Hallmark of Fly Offense
 Many ways to run from many formations
 Red Light—Designed to cut it up. You run this when they give TE a 7 technique and wide 9
technique. This is Power in the Single Wing.
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 Yellow Light (Read TE, 1 to teach?). If you see the butt, then cut up.....When in doubt, then
take it out. Play breaks down when the TE does not give you a read. 5 Technique is really the
only problem technique. Base way is for all OL to get to 2nd level. When you run it out of 2
backs, the HB is a deceptor. 1 back, then QB is deceptor.
 Green Light—Designed to get outside. Sweep to the #'s. The only way we don't sweep to the
#'s is because #2 (force player) boxes and makes us cut up inside.

FORMATIONS (4 Edges)--Design 3 sweeps for each edge

 TE (no flanker) Red, Yellow, Green
 TE w/ flanker Red, Yellow, Green
 No TE, just SE Red, Yellow, Green
 2 WR's Red, Yellow, Green
Pro's & Con's to each
Unbalanced can create another edge

TEACHING OFFENSIVE STRUCTURE (Don't talk about plays)

 Backs = Paths
 OL = Rules
 Concepts = WR's

SWEEPER TERMINOLOGY –aim 1 YD behind QB

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 Approach--4 Gear
 Mesh
 Slide Step
 Catch—outside hip of Back
 Set up Block—have a plan