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Give Me Your Best "X and Goal" play from inside the 5...

It's your basic Statue of Liberty play but with one twist, you throw the ball to me! Knute Rockne called it the forward pass!
 
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MPCane17 said:
Similar concept, but have play side receiver cut split and run a corner, rather than have a backside TE, have him be another receiver. Motion him across the formation in a jet motion to run the flat route, have the play side TE run a 10 yard out, and have the RB secure the edge and leak late into the flat to follow the receiver (in case of over pursuit). Backside receiver would run a slant or fade depending on coverage and blitz.
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Good call - I like the jet motion idea which creates more opportunity for picking the LB/DB in coverage on the play side. Also has backside implications where Rosier can check for mismatch in one-on-one coverage to the weakside receiver - would be an immediate throw to the fade route.
 
Line up Donaldson as fb, with Thomas as tailback, direct snap to Thomas, Donaldson turns around and grabs Thomas and throws him 25 feet in the air over the LOS into the end zone.
 
HurricaneAce07 said:
MPCane17 said:
Similar concept, but have play side receiver cut split and run a corner, rather than have a backside TE, have him be another receiver. Motion him across the formation in a jet motion to run the flat route, have the play side TE run a 10 yard out, and have the RB secure the edge and leak late into the flat to follow the receiver (in case of over pursuit). Backside receiver would run a slant or fade depending on coverage and blitz.
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Good call - I like the jet motion idea which creates more opportunity for picking the LB/DB in coverage on the play side. Also has backside implications where Rosier can check for mismatch in one-on-one coverage to the weakside receiver - would be an immediate throw to the fade route.
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Yup...exactly
 
I'm a fan of pick plays and QB roll outs.

Clemson in the NC game last year for example.

[video=youtube;fuDZltXX7Fg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=fuDZltXX7Fg[/video]
 
TimeB0mb said:
Line up Donaldson as fb, with Thomas as tailback, direct snap to Thomas, Donaldson turns around and grabs Thomas and throws him 25 feet in the air over the LOS into the end zone.
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Play action pass to Herdon on a crossing or corner route from shotgun, trips right, single back, one wr on the left
 
HurricaneAce07 said:
We're all in agreement that our inside-the-5 redzone play calling and execution could use a lot of improvement. It's probably our biggest Achilles heel right now and caused us two "close" wins against GT and Syracuse. I understand that we don't have the right personnel for ground and pound (short 1 blocking TE and 1 FB), but at some point we need to start going with what we have - athletics players with good hands. So let's have it - what packages/plays would you use every time we were inside the 5, no matter the down?

My go-to play is a hybrid-bootleg (or what some call the half-rollout) works in favor of both Rosier and his pass catchers, specifically Herndon, Berrios and Langham/Richards:

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Rosier rolls out and goes through a simple progression 1) Herndon/Berrios in the flat, 2) Langham/Richards in the corner/backline or 3) run it in himself. Fourth option is if Homer has no one to block and ends up at the goalline as a safety valve pass. 5th option would be "scramble mode" where options 1-4 are covered and the backside receiver has the option to turn his route into a crossing pattern across the middle of the endzone.

Interested to see what the high-football-IQ minds think we should be doing instead of what we are doing in goal line situations.
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I would have to disagree with not having the personnel to ground and pound. We just need to go under center more. It's hard to run the ball from shot gun when the team is expecting run. I dont complain about this team all but us being in shotgun every play is the one complaint i do have.
 
Kinda depends on what the opponent typically does in those circumstances and exploit the D. No use bangin your head against the wall by trying to beat what the D does well.
 
We need go to goal line plays. I would say 4-5 wide QB draw, Wildcat package, Kansas State QB Power, we already do QB sneaks so thats good. I would also like to see some of that Pittsburgh panthers jet sweep motion just to get the defense leaning and thinking about a possible jet sweep.
 
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Totally depends on down and distance, score, time remaining, etc.

I think the way our guards pull, the shovel pass would work great. Have to think the LBs will bite hard. The Philadelphia Eagles run it to perfection.

Some variation of the OP is the easiest solution and the one I've been begging for all year long.

From the 1, QB sneak/dive behind Donaldson. I don't think we've seen this once all year long. We even saw it with Kaaya last year.

Basically, anything besides what we have been doing so far.
 
MESH ROUTES on the goal line! It is maybe the hardest route to cover in tight man to man - The defense will be in tight man to man on the goal line.
 
TheZacMamba said:
HurricaneAce07 said:
We're all in agreement that our inside-the-5 redzone play calling and execution could use a lot of improvement. It's probably our biggest Achilles heel right now and caused us two "close" wins against GT and Syracuse. I understand that we don't have the right personnel for ground and pound (short 1 blocking TE and 1 FB), but at some point we need to start going with what we have - athletics players with good hands. So let's have it - what packages/plays would you use every time we were inside the 5, no matter the down?

My go-to play is a hybrid-bootleg (or what some call the half-rollout) works in favor of both Rosier and his pass catchers, specifically Herndon, Berrios and Langham/Richards:

View attachment 52587
Rosier rolls out and goes through a simple progression 1) Herndon/Berrios in the flat, 2) Langham/Richards in the corner/backline or 3) run it in himself. Fourth option is if Homer has no one to block and ends up at the goalline as a safety valve pass. 5th option would be "scramble mode" where options 1-4 are covered and the backside receiver has the option to turn his route into a crossing pattern across the middle of the endzone.

Interested to see what the high-football-IQ minds think we should be doing instead of what we are doing in goal line situations.
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I would have to disagree with not having the personnel to ground and pound. We just need to go under center more. It's hard to run the ball from shot gun when the team is expecting run. I dont complain about this team all but us being in shotgun every play is the one complaint i do have.
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I hear that alot that we should go under center more to run more effectively. Not being an *******, I'm curious, why does it make a difference shotgun vs. UC when running the ball. Maybe a dumb question but thanks.
 
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