Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Lincoln Riley Offense Part 4-red zone and goal line playbook

This is part 4 of my Lincoln Riley Offensive Series.

This section looks at some of his red zone & short yardage concepts. He does a nice job with his red zone package and has some staple concepts on the goal line.

#1 is a run pass option.

He runs a simple play where it is very similar to triple option. He reads the DE for the dive and will throw the ball to the h back or #3 wr off the fake if the OLB is leveraged. It seems to be  a staple for him. 

He loves to leak a wr or h back away from the action often in the red zone! 

This is shown below!

2 back bootleg

Now, this may be an Rpo and has some zone read elements, with the Qb reading the DE, the nice part about this it is a designed pass to the HB and the wr are blocking downfield, which makes me thing it's an RPO. If the DE Takes QB I assume he gives it.


Nice job on the boot





Here's the same play at USC in the red zone when they played Utah. The difference is really just the formation.

Another short yardage play when they go tempo on 1st and goal on the 2 yard line. The only difference is they do it with the wr on the los in the h back spot but is essentially the same play.

Nice Run pass option.

hits the h coming across the formation


Another great play on the goal line is displayed below:
12 personnel
Play action-fake to the back throw to the back
Excellent design vs man coverage.
The back gets a nice pick route by the wr.
He's wide open off of the fake.


Easy catch and throw.


Trips bunch right, back weak with TE 
Fake the Jet left , fake tight zone rt  and hit the TE on the TE dump.
Nice concept vs Man coverage
Tons of window dressing on this play.

nice fake on the jet, nice fake wide zone the other way and the TE is wide open on the dump on the left hand side.
see the DB chasing the jet man
LB loses the tight end.
Jet man draws the defense TE wide open.



3x1 bunch.
They ran this play 2 times vs Tulane.
Nice route concept
Hit it both times 1st time was the wr on the line.

The 2nd time was the wr trailing the endline.

Nice design

WR is wide open

Easy completion in the bunch route.







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