Coaching youth football offenses is challenging. Its take awhile to implement a youth football offense. The pee wee players are not NFL superstars and their memories and attention spans are low. From my stand point, you must choose an offense that fits your talent. If you do not have a speed demon, then the outside sweeps are not going to be effective. If you are lucky, then you can open up the field. I have been successful with both speed and no speed. But, you must adjust and coach to your player's talent. I tell my coaches that if we do not have the talent, then we must coach even harder.
Over the years, I have coached the following youth football offensive formations;
The two youth offensive formations that have worked very well are the Beast and the Spin. The Beast formation works great of you do not have a lot of running back talent. Maybe one of two backs that can carry the ball and gain positive yardage. The Spin offensive formation work great if you have one of the fastest kids in the league. This is a wide open spread offense and is fun to watch if you have the talent. We also ran a double tight spin which is very similar to the double wing offense and an Offense names The Toss by Jerry Vallotton. What's great about the Spin is a can easily move into an I formation and run the same plays with power lead blocking.
In 2008, we ran a variation of Dave Cisar's Single Wing offense as our power offense formation. This is a great offense for power, because your QB becomes a blocking back and you get another blocker at the point of attack. Plus, many teams have never seen this offense, so they do not know how to defend the Single Wing. We ran the Wedge, Power Gut, Off-tackle and Sweep from this formation. We also ran a tight end slant from the Single Wing Offensive formation.
For 2009, we are evaluating the Air Raid Offense to add to our youth football offensive formations. Since we run the SPIN offense, which is similar to a Spread, we should be able to integrate the Air Raid routed into our current offensive plays.
Dale Weiner helped create the Spin Offense. He spent 27 years as the Head Coach for Catholic High School in Baton Rouge. In 2001, his staff installed the Spin Offense. Since its inception his teams have averaged over 28 points a game. You can find a ton of information about the Spin Offense below at American Football Monthly.
See a few offensive plays... find more out on my blog at http://CoachParker.og
Below are some offensive plays that I have written about on my CoachParker.org blog. If you want more detailed information on the plays then head on over to the blog. You can find most of the information under the Offense header.
Spin Offense
Spin Offense
Spin Offense
Spin Offense
Spin Offense
Spin Offense
Beast Offense
Beast Offense
Beat Offense
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