Spread Option Offense Tutorial

[CSA1864]

PowerofRed,

What are some good audibles to chose when running the spread option?

[heelphreak]

I always have slants, wr screen, hb screen, zone read, and 4 verts

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[Vavatron]

I use the foundation plays for the offense as my audibles.

Inside Zone Read
Outside Zone Read
Power Play (in game it is Offset HB Power, or at least something similar)
Bubble Screen
Read Play-Action Pass

If I need slants or something to beat a blitz, I have formation audibles for that.

[Vavatron]

Quote: Originally Posted by heelphreak

I'm constantly getting stuffed in the backfield on runnning plays from the spread. any suggestions?

I average around 7 yards per carry in the spread and I think the key is truly in spreading the ball around. The defense tends to pick someone to key on, in my experience they like to stuff anyone who recently had a huge game. I run a version of the read option for 40-60% of my play calls depending on how well the defense is playing it. You just have to become very disciplined in making the correct read and giving it to the proper guy even if you WANT to carry the ball with a different player. Lastly, as someone stated earlier regarding using the slants to stop blitzing. The idea of the spread even when it is run heavy is to stretch the defense, if the defense is selling out to stop the read option. I will play-action and bubble screen them, as well as use slants until they start defending the entire field and then I go back to zone reading them to death... Once you get the flow down, it isn't really fair at all.

[heelphreak]

Thanks. I'm new to the spread as the heels just switched to it'd this year and I've always run pro style in the game.

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[CSA1864]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vavatron

I average around 7 yards per carry in the spread and I think the key is truly in spreading the ball around. The defense tends to pick someone to key on, in my experience they like to stuff anyone who recently had a huge game. I run a version of the read option for 40-60% of my play calls depending on how well the defense is playing it. You just have to become very disciplined in making the correct read and giving it to the proper guy even if you WANT to carry the ball with a different player. Lastly, as someone stated earlier regarding using the slants to stop blitzing. The idea of the spread even when it is run heavy is to stretch the defense, if the defense is selling out to stop the read option. I will play-action and bubble screen them, as well as use slants until they start defending the entire field and then I go back to zone reading them to death... Once you get the flow down, it isn't really fair at all.

I haven't had to much success getting my bubble screen to work. I can run the read option all day. Any suggested bubble screen plays that work better than others?

[heelphreak]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vavatron

I use the foundation plays for the offense as my audibles. Inside Zone Read Outside Zone Read Power Play (in game it is Offset HB Power, or at least something similar) Bubble Screen Read Play-Action Pass If I need slants or something to beat a blitz, I have formation audibles for that.

I'm unfamiliar with formation audibles. Where to set them up and how do you use them?

[CSA1864]

Setup everything in the custom playbook menu. I suggest using Oregon's playbook as a base and add/remove plays from there. Then you can set your audibles.