Our “Two plays in 1” theory has been very good to us.  (Don’t forget to sign up for the free playbook) It has been very easy to read for both our QB and FB, has allowed us to attack the width of the field on every play by allowing  to set the  point of attack very quickly when the defense moves to balance their strength to our strength on our slot motion from one side of the ball to the other.

We still like the “Q Option” very much, but realized that we will not always have a QB who shines on the speed option all the time. But, since we still want to get to the defensive flank where we outnumber the defense that we needed to do something besides the “Q” to supplement  the “B” (boot).

Coming up with the “T” (a straight toss to the FB-our best running back going to the side where the defense is outnumbered) came to us  from our second string QB who was not as confident in his ability to run the “Q”.

If we called the “T” either way (base formation, rip motion, “T”) we would block each side like it going to be the Toss and let the QB and the FB read the defensive adjustment to the motioning slot back’s movement.  If the toss is to take place to the side the slot is motioning, the slot just becomes the lead blocker for our FB.  The QB will inform the center of which side the toss is going so that he may cut off the play side A gap or block the middle LB away from the toss.  The wide outs and the linemen to each side block for the toss as if it were coming in their direction.

Like on our other “2 in 1” plays (“Q” and “B”) we know that we are losing whatever blocks that the backside guard, tackle and wideout might have provided on the front side (often pretty minimal), but believe that forcing the defense to stay “home” on the backside (or get outnumbered if they do not stay home) has been a very important advantage for us.

We have also incorporated the “T” into our sweep and power plays so that by reading the defensive movement with motion that we can run the “T” to the opposite side if the defense does react hard and move early to help on the side of the originally planned sweep or power.

Such a 2 in 1 play call in the huddle might sound like: “rip (motion right), sweep right, ”T”.  We will run the sweep right if the defense does not in some way adjust early to the slot motion going right or we will run the toss to the left if the defense does adjust quickly (pre snap) by moving to the sweep side with the motion man.

Again, thanks for reading and please do not hesitate to toss in your thoughts or questions.

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