Coaching College & NFL football run game-same side read power and Bash Concepts

BASH AND QB READ POWER

This post will look at some of the same side reads. Meaning the read comes to the direction the running back or jet man is going.This is a designed read that can be a give to the rb on the perimeter with a handoff or a man in jet motion. Either are effective. The 2nd component is the power element if the player being read plays the rb or jet man. Thus, it becomes a qb run if the player you are reading stays outside.

Let's start with the Power Read:

1. Same Side Power/Wrap Read Play 

Concept is running the run action to the same side of the action. This is a same side concept where the run action is going in the direction of the run play. 

You will see teams run power read or wrap read to the same side. Some teams cal it a dart scheme. They will read the DE and block the appropriate scheme. 

From empty they motion the rb back. 

Ole Miss is another team that utilizes the concept.

They run it off of jet motion: 

The DE is the read key and he comes hard inside so they give the ball to the jet sweep. 

Here are a few examples of where the qb got a keep read because the read key widened.

2 clips where the same scheme is executed and the read dictates the qb run.

Now for the bash concept

2. Bash

The bash read stands for back away and involves the running back running backside sweep in direction, and the line blocking frontside for the quarterback should he pull the ball. The beauty of the bash concept is that it goes with any run play. You can change the scheme for the qb which is the great part of the play and what makes it so hard to defend. 

You will see it with some of the following schemes:

1. inside zone

2. counter(below)

3. G/T wrap (below)

These are just some of the ways and we will look more closely at them. 

INSIDE ZONE

Penn State reads the front side end and has zone blocking in the other direction. The QB reads the front side end and gives the ball. If the DE went hard outside then he would keep it and run the ball inside with the inside zone blocking scheme.

COUNTER 

The Ravens are one of the best at it. They run it here with their jet motion.

On 1st and 10 in the red zone, the Ravens run it again for 17 yards. Lamar gets another give read and a great lead block from the rb. The giants are in a weird alignment with de in a 4i which makes this an easy give and they are outnumbered weak with only 3 players on the weak side. 

You can see the g/t counter element with the guard and tackle pulling. 

T WRAP
The Bills T Wrap off the bash.

Here are just some of the concepts you will see from NFL and college football teams.