– Playing QB is unquestionably the most dynamic, specialized and complex position in all of sports. There is nothing like it.

– The Skill-Set Necessary is Amazing.

1.) It’s a journey like no other! (Mental, Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual)

2.) Unimaginable time, passion, perseverance, resilience, toughness, tenacity and humility.

3.) Infinite amount of variables (Not an exact science, Tom Brady @ 199)

4.) He is defenseless

5.) Arguably the most complex task of any athlete in any sport.

6.) QB room is the most important room in the building.

“A great coach needs three things: A patient wife, a loyal dog….and a great Quarterback. Not necessarily in that order.” Bud Grant

– The common thread every QB has in common, Fundamentals. Whether the QB is 8,18, 28 or 38. Fundamentals are all the same.

1.) Must be continually worked and developed.

2.) Must be continually practiced.

3.) Every day, every drill and every play. Repetition-Discipline. Obsession for perfection.

– A QB must have restless, demanding, detailed and creative coach. Able to help maximize his QB’s learning curve on a daily basis.

– A QB must have an obsessive appetite for the game and his position, as well as the willingness to put in time to listen, work and be selfless.

– A QB and his coach must work and make decisions that are always in the best interest of the team. Fearless, not frivolous.

– “What is the ultimate job of the QB? Protect the football. QB’s who protect the football play for championships. It’s the essence of the game.” Steve Young.

– How does a QB protect the football.

1.) C/QB exchange.

2.) On the way to the ball carrier.

3.) In the confines of the pocket.

4.) Location of the pass.

5.) Exiting and outside the pocket.

It’s out job as coaches to provide the environment in the classroom and on the field. Compartmentalize the teaching.

– The QB must protect the ball during the Center/QB exchange. Practicing the C/QB exchange is a business practice.

1.) Must be taken very seriously.

2.) Helmets on, buckled up.

3.) Ball carrier available.

4.) Defender over the center.

5.) Pass or run called with every snap.

6.) Vary the cadence when appropriate.

– The QB must protect the ball on the way to and through the ball carrier.

1.) QB must take the proper first step. Sets his course.

2.) QB must understand the running backs course and location of the mesh point.

3.) QB is responsible to properly seat the ball for the running back.

4.) There should be an understanding of the blocking scheme and if there is an alternate play. The strength and weakness of the front.

5.) Finish through the ball carrier after the exchange. The fake projects the ball carrier!

– The QB must protect the ball within the confines of the pocket. The goal is to find a quiet spot to complete the throwing motion that allows the QB to accurately deliver the ball.

– Why is it so hard to do? There is too much chaos. The chaos must be managed.

– Playing in the confines of the pocket takes courage, football intelligence, as well as mental and physical toughness.

– Starts with the drop.

1.) Type of drop and depth. Line sets and route depths.

2.) The ball must be properly placed and secured. Two hands, tight to the sternum, tip of the ball at the v of the neck.

3.) The QB must be taught to “work the pocket.” It’s his office.

– The QB must be drilled in the fundamentals of working the pocket at the top of his drop. Climbing, sliding and escaping.

– Tip of the ball is NEVER below the waist. We constantly monitor and grade this:

1.) Know when to throw it away and live for another down.

2.) Taking a sack and how to protect yourself.

3.) Understanding blind side pursuit.

4.) Ability to extend the play and how.

– Mental side.

1.) The passing spot. Launch point. Detail it out. Adjust for under center/shotgun

2.) What’s the protection? Is there a free rusher? Who is hot?

3.) Receiver depths.

4.) Situational Football and Game Management.

– Coaching: Isolating the skills and fundamentals of playing the position and then creating the necessary drills to effectively teach those skills. Drills should be performed at game speed.

– The QB must protect the ball with the location of the throw. Location must:

1.) Protect the ball from the nearest defender.

2.) Allow for a completion.

3.) Maximize the result.

– Functional intelligence is a pre-requisite.

1.) The ability to use all go the requisite skill set necessary to play the QB position.

2.) Can the QB function intelligently and athletically at the game speed amidst the chaos and distractions that surround him. Can he slow it down.

– What is location? Define it for your QB.

1.) Is the pass catchable

2.) The pass is placed where the receiver protects the ball from the nearest defender. Preferably above the waist in the middle of the receivers body.

– What is accuracy? Separates QBs. Location with maximum returns. Allows the QB to play at a high level.

– Poor location leads to turnovers. Off the field causes:

1.) Communication between coaches

2.) Communication between QB and coach.

3.) Inadequate play presentation.

4.) Route structure (Splits, Depth & Personnel)

– On the field issues that lead to poor location

1.) Drill Organization and Fundamentals. Are we practicing the skill set to allow the play to succeed.

2.) Did the QB have the opportunity to complete the throwing motion.

3.) Were the splits and route depth correct.

4.) Was the coverage read properly (Man or Zone)

– What gives the QB a minus:

1.) Misses an open receiver with an opportunity to complete the throwing motion.

2.) Ball caught but not in WRs preferred location.

3.) Ball slows receiver down and minimizes gain.

– Don’t grade him down:

1.) Degree of difficulty amidst the chaos.

2.) Can’t step up. Awkward throw.

3.) Defender in face.

4.) Duress of any kind. But all throws should be graded.

– Sacks, running with the ball, taking a loss, or throwing the ball away will not ultimately lose a game. But turning the ball over with a poorly located throw can be devastating.

– The QB must protect the ball after exiting the framework of the pocket. Exiting = scrambling or leaving the pocket prematurely before or after he reaches the launch point.

– Why does the QB wind up exiting the pocket:

1.) Play design, with or without run action.

2.) Finishes progression with no available receiver: Attempts to buy time and extend the play.

3.) Early pressure.

4.) Receivers route is disrupted

– How can a QB exit the pocket:

1.) Climbing (Stepping Up)

2.) Reversing out and finding a lane between the tackles, or exploding outside

3.) Play design

4.) Use the tape to setup your exit drills. Coach Trestman studies all the QB pocket exits on film and sets up drills based on those movements.

– What contributes to the QB turning the ball over when exiting the pocket.

1.) Emotional distress leads to poor decisions.

2.) Blindside pursuit.

3.) Lack of sound decision making. Over values ability.

4.) Failure to differentiate between man and zone.

5.) Poor game management awareness.

– Big reminders:

1.) Priority when exiting the pocket is to get the ball back to the line of scrimmage.

2.) Big play is available, but not at the expense of a turnover.

3.) You need eyes behind your back. Blind side pursuit.

4.) Poise

5.) It’s acceptable to throw it away.

6.) Take the ego out of it.

– Duress never relieves the QB of responsibility:

1.) Clear headed decision making is required.

2.) No “Hope” throws.

3.) Don’t throw across your body.

4.) No such thing as an absolute scramble rule.

Here is a summary of my notes from the opening night of the 2016 Michigan Football Clinic featuring Art Briles.

– Start recruiting priority with your offensive and defensive lines. They are the ones who run your locker room.

– We’re not playing to play, we’re playing to destroy, We’re not throwing jabs, we’re coming out throwing haymakers.

– Wants his team to play Disciplined, Determined and Desperate. Play like if you don’t succeed today, that you won’t get tomorrow.

– When you get happy you get beat, when you get satisfied, you get passed up.

– Have to be different from a schematic and philosophical perspective to turn around a program like Baylor, or what Coach Harbaugh did at Stanford.

– Create an edge:

1.) Style of play: Whether it’s the imagination with extra linemen in the run game like Stanford had with Coach Harbaugh, or the spread offense they run at Baylor.

2.) Recruit athletes that fit your style of play.

3.) Personnel placement: Coach Briles talked about a wide receiver they had at Baylor that only dropped the ball on crossing routes, he just couldn’t catch them. But he was great on deep balls. They decided that “He can run real fast, so we’ll throw it real far.” They let him do what he was great at and stopped using him on crossing routes,

4.) Have a trademark and make sure that it’s positive.

– Lead by example. Produce. People will doubt what you say. But they’ll always believe what you do.

– Leadership is a daily responsibility of the head coach. To create and influence the attitude of everyone involved in the program.

The second clinic presentation of the opening night was head coach Tom Bolden from Cincinnati Colerain. One of the top programs in the Midwest.

– Coach Bolden has an overall record of 97-14 and has been named the Greater Miami Coach of the Year six times.

– For 25 years Coach Bolden has run the 50 Slant and Angle Defense and Triple Option offense.

– Coach Bolden believes the 3-4 defense is the best answer to defend the spread. Keeps offenses off-balance.

– Use speed to defeat size. They’ll have seven linebacker types in their front 7.

– Works to disguise coverage, but will get out of their disguise in order to get defenders into proper position.

– Have checks to formations that you haven’t seen on film. They’ll check “Vanilla”, which means Tight Angle 3. Play it, then adjust on the sidelines in between series.

– In their fire zone coverage (3 deep, 3 Under) they want their curl-flat defenders to hold the curl, and rally to the flat. Force the QB to make the longer and more difficult throw.

– Never lost a game due to lack of defending 3 step pass game. They want to protect the seams and collision verticals, force the ball to be thrown short and into the flat.

– Favorite blitz is Double End.

– Island call versus 3×1 formations. This means they can leave the back side cornerback locked up in man to man coverage and match 5 over 3 strong. Or give the cornerback to the single receiver side underneath help and match 4 over 3 to the trips.

– Likes to play Cover 3 Max once teams try to counter their blitz scheme. It’s great versus the quick screen game.

– The noseguard will be the quickest guy on the defense. Wrestler type. A guy that can wreak havoc in the middle.

– Automatic rush for any inside linebacker once the QB breaks contain. Make the QB throw the ball with heat on him.

*** This is a presentation donated by Warren Central Offensive Line coach David Weitz. You can follow him on Twitter dweitz7. ***

Warren Central (IN) Inside Zone with Multiple RPO Options & Tags by David Weitz

Hide the little guy is one of my favorite trick plays and the execution is as easy as it sounds. Have the offensive line get big in a two point stance and hide the little guy behind them. The QB hands the ball off to the little guy who is shielded by the offensive line and carries out a run fake the opposite way. The little guy delays for a second to let the defense take the bait and then runs a sweep opposite of the fake run action. The majority of teams that I have seen run this play do it after a big play/sudden change and run it out of an up tempo huddle. Here is an example of the up tempo huddle, Auburn uses it a lot in addition to their no huddle offense.

This allows you to run your little guy in, if you need to change personnel, but still have the deception of the hurry up no huddle. Clemson ran hide the little guy out of an up tempo huddle after their successful fake punt versus Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl

Here are some additional variations of the play with different run action.

As Chris Brown from Smart Football has pointed out many times, very few things in football are new. They’re just an old concept that has been brought back in a slightly different form. Hide the little guy is no different. It’s really just a modified version of the old Tom Osborne Fumblerooski play.

While plays like these can never be staples of an offense, they’re certainly great pieces to add as a supplement to any offense.

Montini Catholic (IL) won the Class 6A State Championship in 2015 after finishing as the 6A runner up in 2014. This is one of the top football programs in the Midwest. Montini Catholic offensive coordinator Robert Aurilio was gracious enough to donate a clinic presentation that he recently gave at the Illinois Football Clinic on their Spread Power Run Game.

Montini Catholic Power Spread Run Game

This Power Point presentation contains film cutups. Once you download it, any slides that don’t contain notes are film that you can play, pause, rewind etc. Just drag your mouse underneath the clip and you should be able to play the film.

“You ain’t favored to win the damn game, but we ain’t no underdog. Everybody out there… nobody believes in this team except these guys, and they’ve just got a great heart. And it showed tonight.” Those were the words of an emotional Dabo Swinney following Clemson’s impressive semifinal win over Oklahoma. It’s hard for Clemson to be an underdog in any game when they had the best Quarterback in college football last year with Deshaun Watson. He dominated the semifinals and was the best player on the field when Clemson came up short versus Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship game.

I recently studied the film of Clemson’s offense versus Oklahoma’s defense. I picked up a red zone RPO, QB G-Lead and Midline option concepts that I am going to breakdown.

Whether it’s by formation, tempo or motion, Clemson does a great job of designing offense that gives them a numbers advantage at the point of attack in the run or screen game. Early in the game the Tigers dialed up a QB Lead Draw RPO in the red zone. The read for the QB is simple. He will read the Mike linebacker lined up inside of #3. If the Mike linebacker expands to #3, the QB will run the ISO with the tailback inserting as a lead blocker. If the Mike comes up to play the run, the QB will throw the ball to #3 on the hitch. If the defense lines up in a 6 man box, they’re a man short once the Mike vacates and the tailback ISO blocks the remaining linebacker. This allows your interior lineman to stay on the double team on the nose-guard without having to come off to the second level and account for the Will linebacker. The offensive line will play a vertical pass set technique, trying to influence the defensive line upfield and open up space for the draw.

The Mike linebacker expands to #3, giving Watson a keep read and resulting in a nearly uncontested touchdown. I once read a quote by Bill Walsh that said “At the end of the games and in the red zone, think players, not plays.” This was a very well designed scheme that put the ball into the hands of the best player on Clemson’s offense with multiple options.

Clemson was able to gain an advantage by formation when they went to their Pro Trips set. Oklahoma stayed in a single high defense and covered down 3 over 3 to the trips side. By staying in this alignment, the defense is a man short to the tight end side. Clemson takes advantage and creates a numbers advantage by running a QB G Lead concept and using the tailback to ISO block the cornerback.

Had the nose-guard not been able to get off of the block by the center, this play could have very well gone the distance with Clemson +1 to the tight end side.

Clemson creased Oklahoma again later in the game with the QB G Lead out of the same Pro Trips formation.

Clemson hit another big play out of a 3×1 formation. This time it was Midline option out of Trips Split. Clemson takes advantage of the safety rotation of Oklahoma. The Sonners are playing 3 Buzz and spinning the strong safety down to the hook zone over #3 and rotating the Free Safety to the MOF 1/3. I like Midline option better versus 3-4 than the typical zone read. Rather than reading the end man on the line of scrimmage like you do on zone read, the QB will read the 3 tech (4i in this case) to determine whether to hand the ball off or keep it. There are a couple of reasons I prefer Midline to Zone Read versus an odd front: First is that the QB keep hits downhill rather than wide. Second is that you’re reading a player that is not used to being read, which can help distort the run fits of the defense.

The 4i DT chases down the line of scrimmage, giving the QB a defined read to keep the ball. With no linebacker scraping over the top and the weak side safety rotating to the MOF 1/3, Deshaun Watson is able to pick up 48 yards.

Here is another example of Midline where the QB gives the ball. The read defender is playing flat footed in the hole and not closing on the dive. Oklahoma is scrape exchanging on this play. The 4i should close hard on the dive because he has the linebacker scraping over the top to play the QB keep. But this goes back to what I said in my initial paragraph on this Midline concept, you’re reading a player that is not used to being read in the run game.

All of these RPO, Read Option and QB run concepts are great. But Clemson won this game because they hammered Oklahoma up front with inside zone in the 2nd half and hit some big plays in the passing game. Just because an offense is up tempo does not mean that they can not be physical. Clemson is the perfect example. When they want/need to run the ball, they can get into 11 personnel Trey and Deuce and hammer teams. But they can just as easily spread you out in 10 personnel Double Slot, Trips Split or Empty. With a QB as talented as Deshaun Watson pulling the trigger for this offense, Clemson has to be a favorite to be back in the College Football Playoff in 2016.

Coach Hoover has some excellent cutups of Urban Meyer’s passing game from his time as the head coach at the University of Florida. I wanted to combine those passing concepts along with some of the various Urban Meyer offensive resources that I have written and collected on my website.

Ohio State Quarterback Run Game Concepts

Ohio State Dart Cutback & RPO

Ohio State Jet Motion Counter

Why Ohio State will be back in the College Football Playoff

Gap Scheme & Zone Scheme Wham Plays

Ohio State Empty Smash-Drive & Spot RPO Concepts

2014 Ohio State Gun Run/Pass Combo Clinic

Urban Meyer’s 2002 Bowling Green Offensive Playbook

Urban Meyer’s 2004 Utah Offensive Playbook

Urban Meyer & Kerry Coombs Clinic Notes

Urban Meyer Utah PDF

Urban Meyer Florida Spring Offense

Urban Meyer’s 2006 Florida Offensive Playbook

Urban Meyer: Wide Receiver Route Running Techniques

Ohio State Power Read Blocking Scheme

Coach Peck is currently the offensive coordinator at Battle Ground High School, in Battle Ground, WA. Battle Ground is a 4A school which is the largest classification in the state. This past season Battle Ground won 8 games for the first time since 1991 and won its first playoff game in school history. Under his direction, the offense at Battle Ground has broken almost every school record including total yards in a game, total yards in a season, points in a game, points in a season, passing yards in a game, passing yards in a season, passing TD’s in a game, passing TD’s in a season, completions in a game, completions in a season, and completion percentage. Mike is also the head QB Trainer at Roots Sports Academy. You can reach mike at his email peck.mike@battlegroundps.org or on Twitter CoachPeck11.

Coach Peck donated some cutups of his drop back passing game.

Previously Coach Peck contributed to my site with an article on their Run-Pass Options. 

*** This is a guest post from Todd Greenwell. You can follow him on Twitter @GreenwellTodd***

The base run Cal uses to build an RPO package is the stretch (Outside Zone) play. This run is not new or complicated. The goal is to get to the perimeter by pinning the force player inside, or pushing him upfield if a reach block is not possible. This pin to the inside can come from a reach block, or from a crac block by a flexed tight end or a compressed wide receiver.

In order to stop the stretch play, the defense may begin to scheme to get a free hitter in the box by assigning a defender both a run and pass responsibility.  When the offense can decipher who this player is, it can begin to attack him with RPO’s. The first attack point is when the defense brings an outside linebacker into the run box to play the perimeter. In this case, Cal aligns in a Deuce Gun Strong formation. The offense is going to run their stretch play. The slot receiver to the field is going to run a 5 step slant route and the outside receiver will run a fade.

The read player will be the outside linebacker. If he stays low to stop the outside run, the quarterback will keep the ball and throw to the slot receiver who must win inside on the safety. If the read defender retreats with the slot receiver, the quarterback will hand off and run the stretch play.

The read player can be moved around to keep defense off balance. Here the read appears to be the safety who gets caught flat footed.

This is a solid concept anywhere on the field, including the redzone.

Cal can also throw a backside route versus a soft corner, commonly referred to as an access throw. Cal aligns once again in Deuce Gun Strong formation. Cal runs their stretch play to the field with a speed out as an access throw to the back side.

I believe the boundary receiver has the option to run one of several routes based on the leverage of the cornerback. On this snap, he runs a 5 yard speed out against a soft corner.

Because of the threat of the RPO, the offense can dictate to the defense to play single coverage or risk being put into conflict. If the offense can consistently create positive matchups, it can continue to go to that advantage to move and score the football.

“In the tight sets you can create all kinds of leverage problems for the coverage. Most teams play one or two coverages against the bunch sets. They do not have enough time to put in all of their coverages in against that set. If I know what the coverage is going to be, I can scheme better for it.” Jimbo Fisher.

I could not agree more with Coach Fisher. Whether it’s a Trips Bunch Set, Tight Double Slot or Empty, most teams have one default coverage they will check to against these formations. When preparing for an opponent, it’s critical to try and find some examples of these formations in order to decipher their check and figure out how to attack it. It was Alabama’s coverage check versus Tight Double Slot that Clemson exploited for a touchdown at the end of the first quarter in the College Football National Championship Game. Clemson knew what they would get in this formation, and saved this scheme play for when they absolutely had to have it, 3rd & 9 in the red zone.

Alabama will check to Cover 2 as a base rule versus Tight Double Slot.

Kathy technique signifies Cover 2 technique for the cornerback versus 2 open receivers when #1 is lined up off the line of scrimmage. The CB will play a smash technique and will play high to low versus any smash concept.

Clemson directly attacks the rules of Alabama’s coverage check. The deep 1/2 safety into the boundary must play any corner route from #2 versus a Smash concept. Clemson’s #2 receiver will sell the corner route, widen the deep 1/2 safety and then break back to the middle on a skinny post route. This route is commonly referred to as a Shake route.

The slot receiver gains separation in the middle of the field and Deshaun Watson delivers a strike for a touchdown.

In their week 7 meeting last season, I watched Tom Brady and the Patriots diagnose the Jets empty formation check early in the 2nd quarter, then dial up some concepts to directly attack this check. The first time the Patriots come out in empty, Brady throws a simple hitch route to #1 to the weak side.

The Patriots obviously had concepts in their gameplan to attack the Jets empty check. Once Brady and Belichick confirmed the coverage check, they went right after the weaknesses in the coverage on back to back plays. Here is coverage rules for the Jets empty coverage. It is quarters coverage pattern matching where the Jets match 4 over 3 strong and 3 over 2 weak.

The weak side linebacker (Wall #2) must match the #2 receiver on any inside release. The Patriots align their best route runner at #2 to the weak side in Julian Edelman. Edelman will run what is commonly referred to as a jerk route. He will try to sell the linebacker that he is running a pivot route, stop the linebackers feet, then break back to the inside. Typically if Edelman wins inside, he will have a lot of space to operate because the strong side linebacker (Wall #3) is occupied with the out route of #3 to the strong side.

Edelman drops the ball in that example. But this Patriots passing concept can be devastating versus the Jets empty coverage. I watched Duke hit a big play versus Boston College last year with a similar concept out of an empty formation versus split safety coverage. Duke was able to isolate one of their best receivers in a one on one matchup with the jerk route.

Undeterred after the Edelman drop,  the Patriots went no huddle and came back with another Empty formation passing concept that attacks the pattern matching rules of the Jets coverage check. As I showed in the diagram above of the Jets coverage, the weak side cornerback and weak safety are reading 2/1 and playing Palms coverage. What this means is that if #2 runs any out breaking route underneath 5 yards, then the cornerback will trap #2 in the flat and the safety will play #1 vertical. This technique is also referred to as Clamp.

Brady pumps the ball to the arrow route by #2 to influence the cornerback, then hits #1 in the hole before the safety can get over the top. Just like the last example, Brady knew exactly what the coverage was pre-snap and where he was going to go with the ball. He had to, in order to fit the ball into the window to #1 in front of the safety.

From a defensive perspective, whether it’s Trips Bunch, Tight Double Slot or Empty, you have to have some wrinkles ready with your coverages. Not wholesale changes, but subtle nuances, so that just when the QB/OC thinks they know exactly what they’re getting, you can lead them right into a trap. Obviously this varies from team to team by gameplan and is based on tendency after a thorough study of your opponent.

No matter what type of defense you face, it’s important to have some scheme plays from compressed formations or empty that you can go to in critical situations to supplement your offense.

A smart defensive coach once told me “Don’t ever assume the opponent knows the weaknesses of your scheme or personnel. So many coaches change things from week to week based on their own knowledge of their defense, when in reality the offense doesn’t always know what you know. Make them prove it, have a plan to adjust if it happens, but make them prove it.”

I thought about that quote when I was breaking down film of Michigan’s offense versus Michigan State’s defense. Michigan lined up a wide receiver as an inline tight end on a couple of occasions, which would seem to be a strong indicator that a pass play is likely. I’m sure the Michigan State coaching staff realized the Z receiver was lined up as a Y pre-snap. But the coaching staff knowing it, and them being able to relay that information to 11 guys on the field in order make adjustments in time is another story. Michigan helped add to the deception by not switching personnel groups. They used 21 personnel and lined up their Y (Tight End) at the Z, and used the Z (Wide Receiver) at the Y. Michigan is running a three level Flood concept.

Versus Quarters coverage, the goal of the offense in the passing game is to create the best possible one on one matchup. Michigan got that by aligning their Z receiver at TE versus a freshman safety that was forced into action due to injury. You can see in the clip that the Sam linebacker and Strong Safety recognize the wide receiver lined up at TE. But the Sam still comes up hard on the run fake and does not get a reroute on the TE. The player who really needs to understand the unique alignment is the free safety to the opposite side. The way a lot of teams teach Quarters coverage is that if you get an outside release and hitch by #1, and you have no immediate vertical threat at #2, look to Robot the Dig. This means rob the dig. Especially in this situation, where you have a receiver lined up at TE. Different formation, but here is an example of how you’d like the Free Safety to play this route combo. You want the Free Safety to look up the crossing route first and play the flat late.

But the free safety bites on the run action and is unable to locate the crosser and help the strong safety. His eyes are still in the backfield after the run fake. It leads to an explosive play and a 23 yard gain.

Harbaugh got some mileage out of lining up his Z inline at the Y position during this game. He ran a Y Sneak concept later in the game off of a Stretch fake.

To tie it back to my initial point, a lot of coaches would not have even tried the simple, yet effective adjustment that Harbaugh made. They would just assume that the defense would sniff it out and be all over these pass plays. But if you think you can create a favorable matchup like this, go for it and make the defense prove that they can recognize and adjust.

Montini Catholic (IL) won the Class 6A State Championship in 2015 after finishing as the 6A runner up in 2014. This is one of the top football programs in the Midwest. Montini Catholic offensive coordinator Robert Aurilio was gracious enough to donate a clinic presentation that he recently gave at the Illinois Football Clinic on their Spread Power Run Game.

Montini Catholic Power Spread Run Game

This Power Point presentation contains film cutups. Once you download it, any slides that don’t contain notes are film that you can play, pause, rewind etc. Just drag your mouse underneath the clip and you should be able to play the film.

Coach Aurilio also included film of their semifinal win versus Prairie Ridge. Montini Catholic used 20 & 30 exclusively in this game due to the weather conditions. Montini is the team in the Maroon colored uniforms.