NFL Top Short yardage and Goalline Plays for your Offense

NFL and College top short yardage and red zone plays from the 10 and in.

Ohio Goes unbalanced rt, runs jet motion and throws the ball to the jet man. Man coverage and tough for the cb to cover as their are several pick routes along the way. Nice design by Ohio.

Falcons run the old bullet screen.

It is a screen designed to read either the tackle or end. In this situation, the rb bluffs blocking the end and turns around. They make it look like slide protection and do a nice job with it. Once the RB passes the de he turns around. 

The tackle goes down field and the uncovered interior guard or center(center here) releases down field. The other 3 o lineman block their guys

Here is the clip

Atlanta will run the rb to the trips side from the other side of the formation. NE tries to peel the LB on the RB and he gets picked on the nicely designed play. Ne will often try to peel their olb with flat action by the rb in their man schemes so this is a  well executed play.

Here is the clip of the play.

Vs the Saints the Falcons run a shovel pass toss option. The De runs upfield give the ball to the slot on the shovel pass. Nice design with the guard leading. If the De stays inside give the ball to the rb on the perimeter(Matt Ryan is not running the ball)

My 4th play is my favorite.

4th and 1
Fake to the rb and give him the ball in the air to the same side. The hb is usually open on this, especially in 12, 21 or 13 personnel.

fake to the rb and throw it to him in the flat. Nice design by the falcons. They send the fullback opposite and get a nice pick from the te. Tough to defend on 4th and 1 in man coverage.

Here's the clip with the description above

The Flip Play,

Great off the qb sneak when teams try to stack the middle of the defense.
Jaguars run it on 3rd and 1 for a 1st down.

Here's one from Northwestern.

Start out in wildcat, shift to under center and try to draw them offsides, that doesn't work so they check the play to power pass for the first down. 

Excellent design.

wildcat 

motion qb back to under center

shift to pro I strong with wr condensed.

Go play action with the TE on the post corner and FB to the flat.

Great play design and execution. 

Hope you enjoyed these 5 plays and look for more in the future!

Mississippi State 2018 Bob Shoops study-zone and man pressure package

 In 2018, Mississippi State was #2 in the country in defense. They were led by Coach Joe Moorhead and the defensive coordinator was Bob Shoop. 

KEY STATS

 They only allowed 13.8 points per game and were 2nd to only Clemson in 2018.

They were also #1 in yards allowed per game at 263 yards

#4 in 3rd down conversion percentage at 27%.

The defense was primarily a 4-2-5 but for this article I want to look at some of his unique and designed blitzes.

Lets look at both base calls and blitzes and then we can look at some of the blitzes and looks on third down.

Base Blitzes- 2 base blitzes on the early downs are shown.

Blitz #1

Sam and SS off the edge

Coverage 3 under 3 deep

great job everyone in there gap no place to run.

Heres the stunt vs Ole Miss and Steven Austin

#2 same stunt. Ole Miss runs a nice rpo, if they hand it off its an easy tackle for a loss. Offense runs a nice play against it. Slant route on the backside. Nice play call on offense.

rpo vs the blitz pressure below

You can see the de drop vs pass and how it becomes 3 under 3 deep.

Base Blitz #2

they bring the sam and go man free

They combo to the te side with the LB and the CB vs 3x1 with the tight end backside.

Nice pressure and disguise as they show 2 deep pre snap.

film clip

3RD DOWN PRESSURES

3rd down fronts they would use which they could pressure out of all of them. Here's an example of a pressure from each front.

Double Mug

3rd and 8

5 man pressure 

Cover 3

They go double mug and bring the sam b gap. They also run a game with the mike and dt. A 3 under 3 deep with the DE dropping. Nice design

They run a draw that easily defended.

Video Clip:

3-3 stack

3rd and 8

vs LA Tech, La Tech goes empty.

They run a 3 lb dog with all 3 lb going.

They play cover o

LA tech throws to #2 on the out(hot read) which causes a quick throw and tackle for a 1 yard gain

Load Front

You will often see some 5 man pressures out of the load front. 

Here they run a 5 man rush with a  3 man game inside with the lb adding in late.The lb becomes a  6th rusher. On the back end they play man free with no underneath help. 

video clip

traditional 4 hands fronts

They will bring the mike in this and play man free or 3 under 3 deep.

These are just some of the clips of the Mississippi State defense under Bob Shoops that year. More will be added.