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Thanks for taking the time to actually learn the sport and break it down yourselves. Your growing because of it. You guys are doing everything right 👍

The thing about the WR (or lack there of) was just because during the 70’s and early 80’s, passing wasn’t as prevalent as it is today, so there was less passing places, so WR’s weren’t in as many plays

The Pop Warner Football League he refers to is one of the major organizers of youth football in the US. It's like the Little League of American Football.

"Where are the wide receivers"? To quote a football book I gave to my dad (God rest his soul)...Render unto the runners the yards that are theirs, and unto the receivers the occasional flare pass - Woody Hayes.

That's a sh*t load of info to digest in 20 minutes. I've played and followed football my whole life, and found myself overwhelmed with info and diagrams. You guys are really catching on quickly to a VERY complicated game. My hat is off to you two.

It cracks me up how much you guys second guess yourselves, but you really have a tremendous understanding of the game! It’s awesome to see how far you have come and the effort you both have put in to seriously learn this complex game is noticed and super appreciated!

The reason these option offenses dominated early on is forward passes were illegal until the late 1800s. In the option there are no receivers. The triple option sometimes has a receiver but there are few passes. Other offenses design what's called a run/pass option play or RPO.

A phrase (I don’t know who coined it, but Hall-of-Famer Warren Sapp said it a lot) is: “The fastest evolving organism on the planet is the NFL defense.” Offensive coordinators are constantly trying to exploit areas of weakness with new stuff (helped by changes in rules/penalties/athleticism of their weapons), and then the defense MUST adapt with their schemes and player skills or fail miserably.

If you guys want to see what the triple option looks like, the service academy football teams (Army, Navy, and Air Force) are notorious for running the offense with relative success. The reason they use this offense is because they are a military academy, so their players are all Active Duty Cadets/Midshipman, which means they are all future military officers in training. The military has certain height and weight requirements which puts a hard upper limit on how big their players (specifically their linemen) can be. It requires a disciplined group of players to run it effectively, which the service academies have in spades. By using the triple option it allows them to have a fighting chance against schools with linemen that weigh 60-80 lbs more across the board.

OFFENSIVE LINE UNCODED: for basic running plays "C" is the Center who hikes the ball to the Quarterback on a prearranged signal and then he blocks the defensive linemen to protect against penetration. "G" "GUARDS", are on either side of the Center and they block the opposing linemen, keep them from penetrating the offensive line and push them aside as directed in a called running play to open up a path for the Running backs or Quarterback to run through. "T" "TACKLES", are the two linemen outside each Guard and they coordinate with the Center and Guards to protect against defensive penetration and also push aside defensive linemen to help clear a path for the Running backs or Quarterback to run through. If the play is a Passing play, the Offensive linemen all basically hold their ground and prevent Defensive players from penetrating into the offensive backfield and tackling or disrupting the offensive play strategy. Other Offensive players can be HB-Half Backs, FB-Fullbacks, TE-tight Ends, WR-Wide Receivers Other Defensive players can be MLB-Middle Linebacker, LB-Linebackers on each side of the Middle linebacker, CB-Corner Backs, S-Safeties. these players either are "assigned" a portion of the field to protect, or a particular offensive player to focus on for the upcoming play. DEFENSIVE LINE UNCODED: is basically the named position players who basically line up across from the offensive linemen and try to push through them to tackle the ball carrier or disrupt the play. The lineman across from the Offensive Center is called the "NOSE TACKLE" with DEFENSIVE GUARDS AND DEFENSIVE TACKLES outside them. There are infinite variations of offensive and defensive alignments for players behind the linemen on each side who are positioned to exploit weaknesses they see before the play starts. The Quarterback "reads " the defensive alignment as the players begin to line up for the play and calls for quick changes in offensive alignment and can verbally change the play just before the ball is snapped if he sees that the play originally called won't be effective due to the defensive alignment he sees as they take position. As the Defense lines up they evaluate the offensive alignment they see and also call out signals to change the defensive alignment and strategy. Offenses run several players into the same defensive area to draw defenders away from the area where the play is designed to go. They "flood" the area with players because the defense may not be able to defend against them all. The Quarterback watches those areas as the defender is drawn away and the offensive player slips into it the opening in the defense he can pass there or goes to his back up receiver in a different area if the defense fills in the opening in the defense. This is a super basic explanation but this video is a PHD Level analysis of high level modern offensive systems that will only confuse you if you are new to the game. The game is a chess match with each team trying to deceive the other both on offense and defense. I'm sure there are great videos here that will explain the basic before delving into professional elite offensive systems. .

Back in “Ye Olden Times” the positions were named for where behind the line they generally positioned: a quarter of the way, half the way, fully back. It was not uncommon for your halfback to be the main thrower with the QB being a blocker, runner, receiver out of the backfield. Fullbacks, like All-timer Jim Brown, often used to be your star player/main runner until about the late 1960’s when the position evolved to be a blocker against the defensive linebackers who were evolving to be faster/more athletic to adapt to the increase in passing plays. 🏈🤟

By the end of your journey y’all are going to know more about football than the average American. Great to see the passion for learning about different sports!

This is alot of information to digest. Most of us who either played football or is already well familiar with football, plays and formation etc. didnt start off learning like this. Most of us srarted off learning by playing the game of Madden as kids. That gave us a huge boost.

The read option is so powerful as an offensive blueprint that players like Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts, RG3, and others have used it to great effect in the NFL.

I saw a great comment about how the Air Raid causes confusion, I believe it was from Mike Leach (this is paraphrased). "I'm not teaching my kids 50 plays. They are learning 10 plays and 5 potential places to stand on the field for those plays. That's easier to learn. But to the defense, that is 50 different plays they need to try and defend."

Most youth, high school, college, and even NFL teams preferred to run the ball all the way up until the 80s. It was the safer strategy, and was the epitome of "toughnes". The NFL always passed more though and used wide receivers more. Colleges finally began to pass more in mid 80s.

Wow!! These graphics had me a bit confused! You guys seemed to follow it really well! I was used to watching Madden explain this “during” a game, back in the day!! He was a master at explaining the formations!! Madden helped me love football!! Thanks guys!! “D” your off hand comments are hilarious!! 😂 And… yes to Jerry Rice with Montana!!!!

reacting to an “nfl trick plays compilation” would be such a good video to watch i promise! Love this channel

Basketball's always been my favorite sports but the tactics and strategies of football have always fascinated me. I remember re-watching an old Super Bowl from the 1970s about 10 years ago and it's amazing how antiquated it was. Two wides, two backs, tight end in the same formation over and over and over again. So see how much the game has changed over the past 40 years or so has been pretty amazing.

I would note he did not mention Sid Gillman (and Don Coryell) and his string of coaches from his tree. That "tree" of coaches has won 28 Superbowls and he is one of only 3 coaches in both College and Pro Hall of Fame. He innovated the passing game and using the branch method of routes for wide receivers that lead to the West Coast and other offenses. It is what made the AFL so worth watching when the NFL was still a running game instead of a passing game.

Hey guys great video as always. The last three offenses are the formations you will see most today as football has just evolved that way. The change that the high school coach (tiger) made in his 0-4-1 season was very much influenced by just kids playing football in parks. When we were kids playing football we never ran the ball every play was a pass, so I think players were just naturally suited to pass plays. The first two offenses are really for teams that are basically running teams. Our 3 service academies, air force, navy, and army are the big ones for running plays and wish bone attacks as their players are best suited for that. It's hard to have a 350 pound lineman in the military, so they are run attack streams and perfect it. The tailback position is usually interchangeable with halfbacks as they are the last play in the back field. In the power I formation, mentioned used by Tom Osborne at Nebraska in the 80s you would have QB, then full back and the tail or halfbacks. Also in the run games you might have a wide receiver but most of the time everyone is in close to the line so they are tight ends. Love watching the videos with you guys as you can see you are enjoying the sport but you humor and goodwill just makes it fun. Keep up the great work and always looking for more.

a wide receiver can position himself in the backfield, along with running backs..but usually the team will insert more running backs into the offense and not have as many receivers on the field. So this is a preference made by teams looking to run the ball moreso than throwing the ball.

It would probably be really interesting/educational to you to try playing a Madden game. Gets you directly involved in plays, and you can see the breakdown live in front of you

I’ve been watching American football for years, I probably like it even more than Football. But you guys are gonna know more than me soon! Well I believe I understand the rules better and you guys understand formations better

In modern NFL parlance, tailback and halfback are considered synonymous (there are all types of specialized positions at lower levels of football still). The term "Running back" used more general includes both halfbacks and fullbacks, but more often colloquially refers to the halfback/tailback. So if you hear an announcer say "RB" it's usually referring to the TB/HB. Fullbacks when mentioned are usually specifically referred to as FBs.

Sometimes it takes somebody learning it for the first time for you to go back and refresh yourself to the sport you love, keeps me coming back.

Army and Navy college football still used the Triple Option so look at those games, especially last year against my team the University of Central Florida Knights!

WR role is to run block in these running plays

Ties or draws still exist today, they’re just really rare because often teams just win in overtime. They’re not around in college but in the NFL, once the time runs out in overtime and both teams are tied, the game ends and they just tie. There’s maybe 1 or 2 ties each year

OK... a little (ancient) history here... The Single Wing offense predates the Forward Pass - which was illegal prior to 1906. Even then, passing was much less common for decades than it has been in the "modern era."

Americans love our subjective sports calls, good thing to always remember. Only real subjective call in soccer now is tackles, VAR took away most offsides questions. Most of our sports have some fairly subjective calls that are always made for us to argue about (umpire in baseball, most football calls, most basketball fouls)

There are a lot of older coaches who believed that "there are 3 things that can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad" (incompletion and interception). Passing was often only used out of desperation (lack of time or huge distance to cover), hence a lack of receivers until around the 70s/80s. This is now seen as an incorrect train of thought by most. The benefits of passing far outweigh the negatives.

That was pretty complex. Seemed geared for someone who is very familiar with basic positioning. I still liked it. Thanks guys.

Great reaction guys. One thing you should take away is that the “lower levels”, college and high school tend to be more flexible or experimental. Thus it creates an upward trend where the NFL starts looking for players or coaches who can run these offensive systems. In many ways this makes college, in my opinion, more fun to watch as this a wider variety of approaches to offence.

The tricky thing about the read option is that the QB can make a split second decision. If the defensive end pinches to tackle the running back, the QB pulls the handoff and runs to the outside around the defensive end (who is supposed to contain the offense and not let them get outside). If the defensive end holds the edge and waits for the quarterback, the quarterback will hand the ball off to the running back up the middle. It can be EXTREMELY difficult to defend when you have a fast QB like Lamar Jackson under the center.

You guys taking the time to watch these learning videos is fantastic and will make watching the sport so much more enjoyable. I know my enjoyment of soccer has improved greatly after taking the time to learn more about it and playing loads of Football Manager 😉 I don’t think any of this into is vital but knowing what the offense is trying to accomplish will help you follow the ball better and understand the chess match between the offense and defense.

Another 8? Let's go!!

I really respect y’all, plenty of Americans refuse to learn soccer/football and stick to their own sports so it’s pretty cool y’all are willing to branch out

The Air Raid offense was perfected by the Bills in the 90s running the "k gun" offense, not huddling between plays which took them to 4 straight super bowls (unfortunately they lost all 4) but still no team has ever been to 4 straight besides that. Its a good thing to take a look at maybe in a future video.

There are professional NFL players who have only learned that a draw is possible when the tied game they were in ended.

This was really interesting. I’m glad you guys are really trying to learn the details of football. Joe Montana was fantastic, and would be a great QB to check out in the future!

Jerry Rice is definitely one of, if not the GOAT, of all receivers. His yards after catch were insane. He had amazing hands (if you threw the ball to him, he caught it... almost NEVER dropped passes and often caught balls that other receivers would never catch), but it was really his yards after catch (and his incredible endurance/conditioning) that set him apart. Most of his highlights are maybe not as amazing when compared to some of the acrobatic catches of some receivers, but Rice was a master at his position (it didn't hurt that he almost always had elite quarterbacks throwing him the ball either). Still, he was widely regarded at the time as the best receiver in the league, and I think many people still consider him a GOAT receiver. His routes were very accurate, he was not the fastest at his position, but once he caught the ball... he was a very sleek, very tall, very strong wide receiver that would break tackles and pick up 10, 20, 30 yards after a 6 yard reception. He was a wide receiver, but he broke plays like running backs do. Very exciting to watch because he was constantly catching some piddly 5 yard pass or a slant pattern and then breaking or avoiding some tackles and exploding upfield for a 20+ yard touchdown. He was an underrated blocker too. The most noticeable thing about Rice, however, is that late in the game when other guys (particularly the defense ) were gassing out, Rice was still able to go into another gear. There are stories about rookies trying to train with him (running up and down a hill near golden gate bridge) and being destroyed not even halfway into the workout, where Rice was able to sprint the last 800m because training like that was an everyday thing for Rice. If you look up a video here on YT called "Jerry Rice - The Hill" it explains his commitment to conditioning. He conditioned his body relentlessly and that level of discipline showed itself on the field for a very long, elite career.

The term GOAT was invented for Jerry Rice.

The west coast is more complicated than that. He left out progression. Looking deep first, to attack, medium second, flats or dump off third. Bill walsh also used to script his first 10 to 15 plays. He would run specific play regardless of the defensive formation just to see how the defense reacts to that particular play. After he would run same play with adjustments to how the defense reacted the first time. Offensive and defensive play calling is a chess match with pieces that don't always do what you ask them to do. Some calls are bait calls just to see how you are covering specific routes or they can be setup calls, like being conservative on play calling just to make your attack moves less expected and more effective.

Both of the first two offenses are effectively run-only offenses. The modern renditions of the triple option do allow some passing options. But thats why these offenses died in the NFL, the league is a passing league now.

The forward pass (and the receivers that go along with it) was a later addition to the game...thus their absence in the first 2 offenses.

Every legal offensive formation has seven players on the line of scrimmage with two ends on the outside. In the day, through the 60s at least, we just called them ends. As passing became more prevalent, ends started moving further outside the interior lineman and we started calling them "split ends". Then they started lining backs up outside to get them involved in the passing game or to support misdirection/option offenses and in those positions they were called wingbacks, slotbacks, or flankers. You didn't really hear the term wide receiver until the 70s.

If you remember back to the formations video, the only rule requirement for offensive formations is 7 men on the line of scrimmage and the 2 on the end must be an eligible number. For all intents and purposes, offenses can be broken up into ineligible receivers (the 5 men on the line of scrimmage not on the end) and eligible receivers (everybody else). The more granular position designations are at their core just for organizational purposes. The inclusion or lack of a certain position title(WR, TE, RB, etc.) just means the team has decided that as part of their strategy they want certain types of players in certain spots on the field with certain responsibilities and came up with a designation for them. Teams that wanted to have guys split wide and catch passes started calling them wideouts or wide receivers. Teams that wanted multiple running backs called them quarter, half, full, wing, and tailbacks depending on where they typically lined up in the backfield. But you can have a wide receiver who goes in motion pre snap and does nothing but get handoffs and a tailback who does nothing but run routes and catch the ball if you really wanted.

You’re right, tailback back then is running back right now. In high school we ran a variant of the wing offense. The Delaware Wing T. This was in the late 1990s. We passed maybe 5 times per game, every other play was a run with all sorts of misdirection.

Depending on the year and who you're playing for, Pee-Wee Pop Warner, High School, College or Pro's, they've almost always had an overtime but if no score was produced in the allotted time then a tie was recorded.

I recommend you two should watch the video The New York Giants in Know Your Football (1930s) on how American football evolved from Rugby and also how football looked and was played 100 years ago.

Tailback and halfback. Both are just running backs. There are only like 4 fullbacks in the NFL still.

Tail back is really an antiquated term. Like the guy said, the single wing offense is pretty dead in all ranks above highschool. Its predicated off hiding who is eventually going to run the ball. Its effective but not dynamic and smart players/teams can beat it easily.

8:12 you ask where are wide receivers. We’re talking about an era of football where there are no wide receivers. The predecessor to a WR was a “split end.” Especially in triple option offenses, you’d just have tight ends as blockers and multiple backs behind the line whereas nowadays it’s more common to have at least one back in a wide position along with your “split ends” running routes to catch the ball and we call them all wide receivers whether they’re lined up as an end or as a back.

Regarding the 0-4-1: yes, the '1' at the end means a tie. You still have games that end in a tie today, but (obviously) only during the regular season, not in the playoffs. Overtime is a period of 10 minutes, if no team scores (or both teams only score on their first possession) during this period, the game will end in a tie.

This video that you chose has some things to teach a lot of football fans that don't know the history, because there were several offensive schemes that really aren't seen at all in the modern game. The video does say this, but it's important to recognize that there's a lot of historical offensive formations that don't have anything to do with the modern game, or that have influenced formations in the modern game over time but originated as things that are not like what we see in the modern game (like the RPO evolving out of the triple option, where the original triple option didn't even conceive of passing to a wideout)

Jerry Rice has the stats and the wins to be called the GOAT of wide receivers!!!

Got to Point out the Clemson Connections in this Video. Fisher DeBerry was a Clemson Alum and former Player. Rich Rodriguez was a High School coach, when Dabo Swinney hired him to reconstruct Clemsons Offense. He built the Foundation of today's Clemson offense.. PS: Enjoying Discord.. Rick Charleston SC

Tailback is a bit of an antiquated term in football, as the video said the single wing is pretty rare these days. Though, the halfback is sometimes colloquially referred to as a tailback.

I once played on a team that ran only the Wishbone and I (seldom) formations on offense. We started the season with Coach giving us a speech. He stated that EVERY play, EVERY player, would give 110% from snap to whistle, every practice, every game.... anyone who didn't would pay the consequences and boy did they (we). We wore a path around the practice field running laps.... often on the first practice after game day, just because someone let up before the whistle. In order to be ABLE to play that hard, that long, Coach made conditioning a priority, we thought he was trying to kill us with wind-sprints. He also stated we would be ramming the ball down the opposing teams throats with the running game and he expected us to gain 2.5yds per play, every play. Any more was icing. We never lost a game.

My high school still runs Yale Single Wing. Shit was absolutely CRAZY while I was there. We very appropriately named the package for it "Sledge"

He left out the greatest show on turf. The Los Angeles Ram super bowl year.

Ah man. This video you guys watched was good, but he really missed a lot of opportunities to illustrate the fundamentals rather than just talking about them. It would have made a lot more sense to show how the offenses move.

You can still have a draw in today's NFL as well (only in the regular season, playoffs obviously have to have a winner), it's just fairly rare. Typically only see it maybe once a year

this content is above your heads but good job on understanding it. most casual football fans would not be able to tell you what a single wing is. the air raid is what has influenced much of modern offenses - shotgun formations and 3/4/5 receivers spreading the field

Now you know why it’s hard to find the right players for the right system. If you want to run between the tackles you want big guys. If you run the air raid you want fast guys. But if you’re too big you can’t run fast if you’re fast you might not be big enough to push people around. Same for defense.

"Running Backs" generally is a generic term used to refer to all the different "backs" in the offense: Halfback, Fullback, Tailback, and wayyyy back in the day Quarterback (when they didn't throw so much). Things have evolved and today you sort of only see halfback (typically the guy running with the ball) and fullbacks (sometimes run, but generally a blocker). Tailback and halfback (in the modern game) are pretty much the same and is more of a semantics thing, we don't really use "tailback" that often anymore. You might see tailback used occasionally if the formation only has one RB in it, just to differentiate from formations with a HB and FB (two RB) combo. Part of the reason you didn't see any WRs is because there more more players in the backfield (RBs) in the past. As the game evolved you have more receivers, which is part of the reason you don't see tailbacks (in the classic sense) anymore and also why the FB position is become rarer.

Great stuff guys , keep it rolling!

At the beginning when he mentions Friday, Saturday, or Sunday...Generally...High Schools play on Fridays, Colleges (University) play on Saturday, and most NFL games are on Sunday. Generally speaking. However, the NFL also has one Thursday night game and one Monday night game.

Historically back in the day it was much more common to run the ball majority of the time. Which meant on most formations the offense would only have 1 wide receiver or sometimes none at all.

14:29 - the kids deserve more credit than that coach

I believe Virgil Carter and Lavelle Edwards were running the west coast offense at BYU before Walsh started running it in the NFL. That's where Andy Reid learned it as well.

During the Air Raid segment, he talked about "fast offense" that doesn't let the opponent substitute guys or take a breather, but he could have been clearer on some points: "Fast" in that sense is referring to snapping the ball fast, getting the next play off quickly, minimizing the rest time in between plays. Also, unless it's an end-of-game scenario, you would never worry that your team is constantly scoring too fast, because if you're always scoring, even if ur defense is tired, the best the opposing offense could do is barely keep up. The REAL concern w/ an offense that's always getting the next play off quickly is when your drive DOESN'T end in a score. If you go 3 & out in the blink of an eye, the score hasn't improved AND your defense barely got a breather, putting more pressure on them.

We used the triple option in high school, which was basically like a cheat code. It asks a lot from high school kids though. The QB has to make two reads to decide whether to give it to the FB (me) and then whether to pitch it to the TB or keep it himself. Also it wasn't just a straight give. The QB would put the ball in my arms and then either let go or pull it back, so I had to hold it loose enough not to rip it out of his hands if he wanted it back.

i played HS ball in the early 80's. Lot of times the offense was dictated by the personnel we had. My junior year year we ran a variation of Nebraska's offense. the difference was , we had good receivers but our tailback rushed for over 1500 yds, The split was about 60/40 run to pass play, BTW...Won a state championship that year. By my senior year. The split was about 90/10 run to pass. The tailback rushed for close to 1500 yrds but our QB rushed for close to 1200 yds and hardly passed the ball. What was unique is that we rotated fullbacks. We had three with different skills. All good blockers but different styles of running with the ball. Won a league title that year. When I got into coaching. Got a new head coach. Kept the old offensive for a year. By the second year. Went to the flex. We called it the Double Wing. And it was very difficult to stop us. By my third year we were undefeated, won a state championship and were ranked in the top three in the state. And again all this was because of the personnel we had.

Awesome stuff, the exact content I'm looking for

You guys are killing the KZfaq game! Love the idea of breaking these into seasons. Looking forward to what’s next!

The most unique offense that was once upon a time in existence was the A11 offense. It manipulated the rules in many states, it had 2 quarterbacks, 0 offensive lineman and 11 players to possibly be eligible. It confused teams and most states have fixed their rule book to outlaw it. The only time it is legal is during 4th down on a possible punt.

Coming back now and hearing the Mike leach story is so cool

When asking "where are the wide receivers?" you're diving to the core of the change. While there was passing in the pre-70s game, the receivers were not the superstars; the running backs were. While there were great wide receiver in the 70s, you rarely saw a team that had multiple star receivers. By the 80s you started to see receiver groups that included 2, 3, or even 4 really good targets for the QB. Today we talk about each team having a WR1, WR2, and WR3, with a TE able to catch well and another able to block well. I was in college in '87 when Washington DC had The Posse: Art Monk (power), Gary Clark (maneuverability), & Ricky Sanders (speed); three receivers who were the first to each have 1000 receiving yards in the same season. They didn't invent the concept, but they perfected it.

@22:00 the reason it keeps defense players on the field is cause Def isn't allowed to sub players unless the offense huddles.

This guy completely left out the FACT that the "why don't we run the 2 minute drill offense all the time?" was first tried by Cincinnati Bengals coach Sam Wyche, with Boomer Esaison at QB...but absolutely perfected by the Buffalo Bills Marv Levy, with Jim Kelly at QB. The K-Gun offense took the the Bills to 4 straight Super Bowls. The assertion that the air raid is how the "hurry up all the time" offense began, decades later, is patently false. Oh, and the Bills defeated the Run and Shoot offense of the Houston Oilers(now Tennessee Titans...we pulled off such a massive comeback in the playoffs, and embarrassed them so badly, that they literally had to leave their city) multiple times to go to those Super Bowls. Also, Dan Marino is widely recognized as the best pure QB of that era(Elway and Kelly close, and, Moon of the Oilers would have been perhaps the GOAT, without the prejudice of the era...but that's debatable). What is not debatable: Dan Marino's Super Bowl rings are safely stored in the gravel and grass of the parking lots in Orchard Park(the Bills made sure, from 1984-1998, that Marino never saw another Super Bowl after 1983, defeating the Miami Dolphins in division games, and in the playoffs all but 1 time).

When football was first invented there was no forward pass. That’s why some of the older formations are designed for running the ball with the lack of WR

So back in the day (even in recent history) the running back was a lot more important than in today's game. Conversely, the tight end used to not be nearly as important as he is today. The evolution of the game moved it to the air but I see teams re-looking at running back, particularly when their QB isn't particularly solid in the throwing game.

In the 90's Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills played the no huddle offense and went to four straight Superbowls. They lost all four, but no other team has gone to four in a row.

In the past Army's offenses was known to often use a variety of Option plays in it's standard game-plan. They used to like to play more of a Rugby type of game with some passing (in the past Army would have some tough hombres' playing QB, if you're going to run the Option much he has to be, but not always the best passers).

A Triple option type offense is often adopted by teams for 3 specific reasons 1st it’s great for teams with weak offensive lines because there are 2 defenders that you don’t have to block by design. 2- It takes advantage of defenses that don’t have enough discipline to do their assignment from play to play. 3- it scares coaches and keeps them from using a bunch of different defensive alignments/ blitzes because 1 mistake and it’s a touchdown. Keeps defenses vanilla.

In the triple option , and especially the wishbone, there is usually only one actual wide receiver (and a tight end). You could throw from the formations, but they were designed for running as the primary play

There are draws (or “ties” as we call them) in American football, except during the playoffs. The rules for overtime are changed for the playoffs to preclude ties.

i've enjoyed watching this playlist.. a couple ideas that might also help your understanding of the game.. 1. play Madden video game.. it shows a number of formations and plays, with basic diagram, and you can see the plays in action.. 2. play fantasy football.. it is free (at least it can be), and it helps both with the game, and also getting to know players/teams to root for.

Dig deep enough, you'll see the following: TB (tailback), WB (wing back), SB (slot back), and there's also Flankerback, but they're usually called Z or move Wide Receiver. Really critical point is a lot of the time, the positions did not remain in their previous roles. Today there's pretty much Runningback and Fullback, and generally speaking, the Fullback is closer to the line than the Runningback. In the 1950s, the FB played the role the RB does today, and in the 30s, the TB played the role the QB does now. There's also a disconnected between what the general public calls a thing and what insiders call it. For example, Flankerbacks, Wingbacks, and Slotbacks are still very common today, but they're usually called Z Receivers, Move Tight Ends, and Slot Receivers by fans today. For practical purposes, there are 3 wide receivers in most formations. But for technical purposes, they are a Split End (a lineman), and a Slot and Flankerback (backs). For practical purposes, George Kittle is a Tight End. But technically, depending on the call, he'll be a tight end, a wingback, or a slot back depending on the place he lines up.

Another great video

yall put out good content and catch on quick

Wow! Did not expect to hear my hometown Middletown OH in one of your videos! Tiger was coach when my mother attended MHS. The school is also known for their basketball team in late 50's. Included Jerry Lucas who went on to play pro ball. Love your channel!

these guys trying to figure out the gridiron is me watching ted lasso trying to figure out the pitch.

1974 was when the NFL intrduced overtime rules for the regular season. College football games could end in a tie until 1995. High school games can still end in ties but rules vary by state(high school sports for the most part are governed at the state level)

Bill Walsh also known as "The Genius".

Okay fellas. Thanks for your interest in trying to figure out what your seeing. These instructional videos really help. I didn't appreciate the narrator calling Don Fur-oh, Don Fur-ott. I know we talk funny in Mizzurah, but Don Faurot, is an icon here. In the hippie days, they called him Far-out. Missouri still plays on Fauot Field. No wide recievers? That's correct. As it was mostly a running game,5 linemen, 2 tight ends, and 4 guys in the backfield. You still had to have 7 on the line. Once chucking the ball downfield became the rage, one of the tight ends was replaced by a speed guy, and as many as 3 of the 4 backs were also replaced with the wide receivers. That's why running backs are so much less in demand. I think it's sad. 3 yards and a cloud of dust will probably never come back for good. But when you hear of controlling the clock, it's the running game that dominates. Keep up your training. You'll get there.

Once you know to check lineups at the start of each play you can start to anticipate some of what might be coming, even if you don't know or remember all the formation names and positions. It's a lot of fun with even just a modest level of experience!