The Jet-Fly-Speed Sweep in Youth Football

<strong></strong>, There is even an entire offense built around this concept, called the \"Fly Offense\" that is run by a handful of High Schools. Many High School and even College Football teams incorporate the jet sweep into their regular offensive sets and series. Today many Wing T, Double Wing, I Formation, Ace Set and even a few Single Wing teams have Jet Series plays or add Jet Motion to some of their football playbooks. Unfortunately most TV announcers mistakenly call this play a reverse or end around, I have no clue how they get that term from a simple motion sweep action. Most Real football coaches know this is a Jet, Fly or Speed sweep play.<br /><br />Once the defense starts flying to the motion to the outside, there are a number of complementary football plays that can be very effective: fullback trap, fullback wedge, \"G\" play with QB or Fullback, bootleg and waggle pass. The key is to have very tight mesh fakes to the fullback during the regular jet sweep plays. Some teams run the fullback first before the motion back, most have the fullback run his fake or take just behind the motion backs motion and of course have the QB bootleg away from the play. The tighter   <strong><a href="http://jetsyouthjersey5.blogspot.com">jets youth jersey</a></strong>  the mesh between fullback and motion back the more effective these football plays will be. The teams that do this well make this a boom boom play, all three backs going in different directions after a split second slight of hand mesh. Now making it work like that is another story.<br /><br />This football play can be blocked in a variety of ways, with most teams going to a \"reach\" technique with the playside linemen and track blocking on the backside. Many youth football teams even pull the playside guard and tackle. With the speed the motion man is coming at, they feel they can leave the playside defensive tackle unblocked and he still can not get to the play if the motion man gains a bit of depth at the handoff. Some teams lead the motion man with a running back, others offset a blocking back to that side. Still others at the youth level may even pin the end man on the line of scrimmage in with a wing or slot and down block it with a GOD rule, Inside Gap, On, Down. However you run it, the play will not work unless the motion back is running at FULL SPEED. Your motion man has to be trained to trust the QB and his landmarks and run all out.<br /><br />My only personal experience running the Jet Sweep was with an age 13-14 team, running the Double Wing Offense. This was a \"B\" level team that was very short on talent, size and players that I got just one week before their first game (fired entire coaching staff 1 week before their first game)and in addition to head coaching an age 8-10 team. We were able to add a speedy player to our team in week 3 of the season, due to very low numbers (17). We were looking for a way to put this speedster in space without throwing the ball, as our QB was very inaccurate. We were able to get the handoff to the motion man down well with a day or two of practice by making sure we had our timing and landmarks down, but it took quite a bit of tweaking and reps to get down, it is a play series that requires a tremendous amount of precision and time. Our QB would open up to the motion side, then bootleg away from the motion.<br /><br />The hard part for us was getting good tight quick fakes to the fullback after the handofff or fake to the speed motion back and making a tight mesh. Making that work to a reasonable level and getting the timing down so we could run our fullback traps, G plays, fullback wedges, bootlegs and waggles out of it took at least 2 weeks. Our wedge never seemed to work very well off this action because it took too long for the fullbacks to get into the wedge after the motion back fake. We were able to get our speed back to the outside with this play. Running the jet sweep on short yardage situations was where we had the most success.<br /><br />Since the edge is so tight on the Double Wing Offense and the Wing is motioning at full speed, the motion would start just an instant before the snap. To make sure we were not called for \"offsides for simulating the snap\" we had our motioning wing take a very slow deliberate drop step as the start of his motion. Many uniformed referees think you have to be in motion for   <em><a href="http://jetsyouthjersey5.blogspot.com">jets youth jersey</a></em>  one second before the snap, that is incorrect and probably is confused with the rule that every player must be set for one second   before the team can go in motion. Doing the slow deliberate drop step seemed to solve all those issues. Since we had only one player  <a href="http://jetsyouthjersey5.blogspot.com">jets youth jersey</a> with speed, it limited the amount we could run this play, as the defense could just set up wide opposite the wing the speed player was set to and counter the play call.<br /><br />Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/629921