2007 Dc Wing T

THE 2007 DC WING T A unique way of running Wing T Football By Clark L. Wilkins Sixth Edition Copywrited 2007 Table of Contents Philosophy of the DC Wing T ………………………………………….. 4 The Play Calling System ……………………………………………… 17 The Stance......…………………………………………………………..25 Centering the Ball...…………………………………………………….27 Blocking Techniques...…………………………………………………28 Blocking Cues…………………………………………………………..38 The Off Tackle Play …….. …………………………………………… 43 The Wedge Play………………………………………………………...47 Wedge Passing …………………………………………………………56 Pass Blocking…………………...……..………………………………..61 The Rollout Pass………………………………………………………..62 The Quick Hit …..……………………………………………………...65 Counting the “Box”…………………….………………………………74 The “Six Man Box”………….…………………………………………75 The “Five Man Box”…………………………………………………...77 The “Four Man Box” …………………………………………………..79 Reading Coverages……………………………………………………..82 Miscellaneous Reads…………………………………………………...92 Testing the Reads………………………………………………………95 Belly Series ……………………………………………………….99 Belly Counters …………………………………………………..112 Bobby Dodd Series ……………………………………………..127 Jet Series ………………………………………………………..131 Jet Counters ..................................................................................141 Buck Series ………………………………………………………148 Power Plays ……………………………………………………..156 Single Wing Series ………………………………………………164 Using Different Formations……………………………………. 167 Passing …………………………………………………………….....182 Bunch Passing ………………………………………………………..200 Pick Pass ……………………………………………………………..201 Defeating Bump and Run Coverage …………………………………200 Play charting……………...……………………………………..……203 Special teams …………………………………………………..…….204 2 Questions and Answers ………………………………..…………….208 Wing T Drills ………………………………………..………………226 Attacking Specific Defenses.………………………..….……………254 Trouble Shooting ………………………………..…………………..286 Suggested Practice Schedule …………………..……………………295 Coaches comments …………………………..……………………...296 3 OFFENSIVE PHILOSOPHY Every offense has a philosophy. The “run and shoot”, for example, seeks to spread the defense and then attack the open areas. The “I” formation seeks to give the ball to a single, dominating running back. The wishbone, double wing, and single wing all seek to control the ball through their power running game. It is important to understand what an offense is trying to do if you’re to use it correctly. It would be unwise, for example, to line up in the wishbone and then throw for four straight downs or to try and run for four straight downs from the run and shoot. Thus, if you want to benefit from my offense, one needs to know what it does best. The offense described here is the Wing T. However, it is not the “Delaware” wing T. I have changed it to accommodate the bigger, slower and also smaller players found at the youth level. Yet the underlying principals and philosophy of my offense still remains the same as the Delaware wing T. Whatever you see the “big boys” run, you can run too (and on far less teaching and talent. Everything in here can be mastered by 10 year olds and about 70% of it by 7’s.). This makes the offense fun for the players, fun to coach, and especially fun for the parents to watch. Of course, if you’re going to run a high school offense ultimately you must know the same things that the high school coaches know to win. This manual will educate you in the knowledge of a high school coach while avoiding the need for high school players. You select enough of the system to fit your age and talent needs against whatever opponent you face . That covers a lot. We will begin with the formation itself. It's hard to say just how old the wing T formation is. It first appeared in a book in 1940 as a derivative of another highly successful formation, the “T”. The wing T was soon adopted by Coach Robinson of Grambling, one of football history’s winningest coches, who used it to win 408 games. In order for you to equal that record, you would have to have a 10-0 winning record every year for 40 years - And at the end of that time you would still be 8 wins short. That should give you an idea of the strength of this offense. The wing T and the original “T” formation, the “grandfather of modern football” from which it was derived, are both shown below. O O O 0 O O O O O O 0 O O O O O O O O O O O T formation Wing T Formation Only two players were moved from the original “T” to create the winged T; one halfback (HB) to a wing back (WB) and one tight end (TE) to a split end (SE). You can probably see for yourself some of the advantages these changes offered over the T. The addition of the SE spreads the defense to improve the passing game. And, by adding a WB you can now quickly put three receivers downfield versus only two for the "T". Yet the wing T formation was not introduced to improve the passing game . It was introduced to improve the running game. Many youth coaches believe two TE’s will improve the running game. It doesn’t. The formation is at its best, running wise, with an SE. 4 The wing T was designed primarily to attack a specific defensive player; the defensive end (DE). For purposes of this playbook, the DE is defined as the furthest outside defender on the line of scrimmage to either side who does not have a pass coverage assignment. In my illustrations I will use the symbol “E” to mark the location of the defensive end. Traditionally, DE's have the duty of stopping the sweep. They do this by lining up outside the TE or inside the SE and then taking an upfield rush. The wing T attacks a DE doing this by blocking down on him with the WB outside the TE and then sweeping the runner around him. This forces the DE to move even further out and align on the outside shoulder of the WB in order to get around him and avoid the “crack”. Yet, if he does so, he not only has to go farther to reach the QB on pass but we can also run “off tackle” inside him through the now extra large gap he left between himself and the next defensive player inside him. On the SE side of the formation, the DE is forced to align inside the SE to “plug the hole” between the SE and tackle inside him. He must move far enough inside the SE to not be cracked by the SE which tends to bring him within range of being “load” blocked by a back and we can run outside him. Thus, no matter how the DE aligns against a wing T, he’s always wrong. He’s either too far out and we run inside him, or he’s too close in and we run around him. In most cases he’ll align wide on the TE side but close in on the SE side. To take advantage ofthis, the SE is always placed on the wide of the field and the TE on the short side. By running off tackle (inside the “loose” DE) to the TE side, the offense avoids sweeping into the near sideline (the so called “12 th defender”) and, by sweeping to the SE side (around the “tight”), the offense automatically sweeps the wide side of the field for maximunm running room. The DC Wing T alters the traditional Delaware wing T formation. The SE is lined up a maximum of 10 steps away from the ball for receiving room inside or a maximum of 7 steps from the ball for receiving room outside. This not only shortens our throws, but, if the DE to his side tries to move out away from our back to avoid being load blocked by our HB on the sweep, he comes within range of the SE’s “crack” block when aligned 7 steps out. On the TE side, the TE also uses what’s called a “nasty” split and is four feet outside the offensive tackle while the WB is usually about two yards outside him (or also about 10 steps from the ball). This feauture of “progressive splits” is the primary feature of the successful “Split T”. Finally, the HB is set closer to the line than in the traditional Delaware wing T. Most youth DE’s elect to defend the DC Wing T as I described. As an example, here are the DE alignment instructions from the book, “Coaching Youth Football Defense”, 2nd edition, published in 1996 by John Reed, a noted youth football author. He instructs (page 10) his DE to align, “On line of scrimmage one yard outside the end; two yards outside a wingback (emphasis in original)”. Thus, fifty-seven years after the introduction of the wing T, coaches are still recommending that the defense play its DE’s outside the wingback of the wing T. If we use Reed’s instructions, we can actually measure how much bigger the “off tackle” hole inside the DE becomes with this adjustment. If our WB aligns two yards outside the TE, Reed’s rules would place the DE another two yards outside the WB. The DE is now four yards outside the TE, or three yards farther than normal . But since the DC Wing T lines the TE up with an extra one yard “nasty split”), the DE in Reed’s defense moves yet another yard further out . The off tackle hole is now four yards wider than it would otherwise be. To avoid this, most of my opponents put 5 their DE “head up” on my WB, but this still leaves the DE lined up three yards wider than normal. Unless we sweep at him, he’s out of every play and we wouldn’t normally sweep at him since that would be into the near sideline. Except on one play, we don’t even bother to block him. He’s left to defend “air”. To the SE side, most of my opponents play their DE one yard outside my offensive tackle (Reed’s book also says to do this).

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