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The First Youth Football Audible Play, Opposite!
If you had a chance to read “Coaching Youth Football – Audibles”, you would have read how I learned that audibles could (and SHOULD!) be used in youth league football. Little Tim, our young quarterback taught our entire staff some very important offensive football lessons.
To review briefly, Tim originally taught us that he and his teammates could run our basic sweep play to the “opposite” side of our formation (where we had the manpower advantage and away from where the defense had the same manpower advantage) with just one simple call (“Opposite”) once arriving at the line of scrimmage.
It quickly became the responsibility of the coaching staff to redesign our offense to take advantage of what Tim and his teammates could do with this great concept. The pros use audibles all the time and Tim taught us that youth players could do it, too.
The first thing we did was to make sure that we had four basic running plays could be run exactly the same way to both sides of the center. For us, at that time, this was pretty easy because we were using two formations that were equally balanced to either side of the center: the wishbone (diagram 1) and the double slot (diagram 2). If your offensive formations are not balanced (example in diagram 3) you may have a slightly more difficult time using only the ‘opposite’ concept for your audible system.
The four running plays we started with in our ‘opposite’ package of audibles were: triple option (right out of the wishbone book), isolation, power off tackle and sweep (diagrams 4-7). It turned out to be much more simple than we thought as once one of these plays was called (example, option left) we just waited for Tim to determine where the defense was the weakest. If he called “opposite” we ran the option to the right. If he called out anything else (decoy call), we would run the play called in the huddle-option left.
It turned out that teaching future quarterbacks (after Tim) was also much easier than we initially anticipated. To go along with our on-the-field drills and team work practice times, our backfield coach found some of those little football pieces from an old electric football game, made a miniature football field out of poster board and drilled our young quarterbacks daily helping them to find the defensive weaknesses. Kids who were not our quarterbacks really liked taking the challenge of setting up their own defense to try to stump our quarterbacks.
We eventually added a our sprint out pass to our offensive “opposite” package with excellent success.
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