"IRISHFBFAN1'S "BAMA 1 BACK ATTACK AND SCHEME"
As I was driving to a small University to do a Helmet fitting for a school I got to thinking about planning out a ONEBACK attack that when schemed using multiple formations would give me basically a complete offense at my fingertips that would include balance with both the pass and run as well as utilize the very best concepts that I could quickly get to before every snap.
Then, the BAMA book came to mind. I like to carry around the formation audibles of playbooks with me on my job as I travel from school to school.
Today was a long trip and luckily I had the BAMA breakdown with me. What you are about to read is the way I would scheme this book. I will give you not only the formation audibles with each set, but I will also tell you the plays I would put in my regular audibles as well. You will see by coming out in specific plays that you can hop from one formation to another utilizing very nice pass concepts and also have the ability to attack the defense with a multitude of runs.
I will not be discussing the SHOTGUN at all so if you are not an under-center type player you might not get the most out of this scheme. I feel this scheme is very powerful, very realistic in approach, and very useful for both the beginner as well as the well seasoned veteran. Feel free to make any changes to fit your style, but please before you do understand the thinking behind the scheme that I have devised. I will start out for explanation purposes coming out from one formation and play, this does not mean you cannot use other plays or other formations and then hop from one formation to another. I want you guys to grasp the basic approach and then run it if you wish however you want, and that includes some or all of the formations I will be using. I will not breakdown the setups for each play, that is something we can talk about in this thread.
***IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU KNOW YOUR FORMATION AUDIBLES LIKE THE BACK OF YOUR HAND FOR THIS IS THE BASIS OF EFFECTIVE SCHEMING***
So, lets begin our journey with the ALABAMA ONEBACK ATTACK, I hope you like.
PLAYBOOK--ALABAMA
***THINK OF THIS SCHEME AS A PUZZLE AS WE LINK FORMATIONS TOGETHER,THINK OF SB BIG AS OUR TREE AND THE FORMATIONS AND PLAYS WE WILL BE JUMPING TO AS THE TREE'S BRANCHES, AND KEEP A CLOSE LOOK AT THE TALLY OF PLAYS THAT ACCUMULATE WHILE WE ENTER THE TREE'S BRANCHES***
1. SINGLEBACK BIG
OK we are going to start here with this formation. Watch how the formations I use that follow all branch out from this set. Think of this formation as your tree and the formations and plays that we will introduce as its branches.
We are going to come out in STRETCH, we have the following in our formation audible for this set.
UP-SLANTS
RT-TE CROSS
DN-HB DIVE
LT-PA TE POST
We can run within this formation or if we don't like what we see we are going to move to that first branch and its a good one, SB ACE BIG TWINS.
To get there we are going to put HB POWER in our regular audibles, what a hell of a play. Now, and remember this throughout this scheme, VERY IMPORTANT, I like to manually motion my player into the position he will be in if I were to audible to one of my plays. The reason is I don't want to lose the play I came out in, it might be just as effective with the motion. For example, we came out in SB BIG STRETCH, we will motion the right WR to the left which basically gives us a homemade SB ACE TWINS which is in our audibles with HB POWER, by doing this I still have the option of running STRETCH and if I want I can flip the play. If I don't like what I see I can select HB POWER and the defense has no clue what I have just done. Formation Audibles include with SB ACE TWINS
2. SB ACE TWINS
UP-SLANTS
RT-SMASH
DN-HB DIVE
PA DAGGER.
As you can see by placing HB POWER in our regular audibles we now have gained not only another great run play at our fingertips, but one hell of a pass play SMASH located in the formation audible right.
The Tally is beginning to build for our play selections, lets take a look with these 2 formations fused together as it stands now without moving on.
RUN PLAYS
STRETCH
HB POWER
HB DIVE
INTERMEDIATE PASSES
TE CROSS
SMASH
not a bad start, remember our tree and its branches, all we did is just motioned one guy to get into the next set. Now, lets just step one of the Tight Ends off the LOS, HENCE---SB ACE BIG WING, and we will get there via putting POWER O in our regular audibles. For this branch we get the following
formation audibles.
3.SB ACE BIG WING
UP-SLANTS
RT-CORNERSTRIKE
DN-HB DIVE
LT-PA FL CLOWN
Now lets check our Tally of plays, see how the puzzle begins to form into a picture. There are NO overlapping of plays just sound concepts for both run and pass and we are beginning to know where to find what we need.
RUN TALLY
STRETCH
HB POWER
HB DIVE
POWER O
INTERMEDIATE PASSES
TE CROSS
SMASH
CORNERSTRIKE
QUICK GAME
SLANTS (DAMN I WISH I HAD STICK, BUT WAIT... THE SCHEME IS NOT COMPLETE YET!)
PLAY ACTION
PA TE POST
PA DAGGER
PA FL CLOWN
Not bad at all, lets enter another branch off of SB BIG WING, we need to find some missing pieces to our puzzle and scheme. Note, now out of SB BIG we have motioned a WR over to form SB ACE TWINS, we have stepped one of our HE'S back to form SB ACE BIG WING, lets now enter our new branch by stepping back one of our TE'S and motioning him to form and enter our new branch SB TWIN TE. What a damn good formation! We are going to enter this formation by placing one of the best stock passes in our regular audibles and that pay is Z SPOT! Look at these formation audibles by checking to this one play, notice my favorite run play in all of football in the formation audible down! AWESOME!
4.SB TWIN TE
UP- SLANTS (WHERE IS STICK LOL, HANG IN THERE, WE ARE NOT FINISHED)
RT-FLK DIG
DN--INSIDE ZONE***
LT--PA TE FLOOD
The Tally of plays at our fingertips is growing and these are not just plays, these are damn good concepts both for run and pass! Lets take a look at our Tally now, remember 2 things, one, you can use the manual motion with all of this to keep the specific play you came out in. That motion might be just what the doctor ordered. Or you can simply select the play from your regular audibles and he will motion or shift and the defense is not any wiser! Secondly, you could use any play to come out in or any formation but please once again try to follow here to get the concept down.
RUN TALLY
STRETCH
HB POWER
HB DIVE
POWER O
INSIDE ZONE
INTERMEDIATE PASS
TE CROSS
SMASH
CORNERSTRIKE
FLANKER DIG
PLAY ACTIONS
PA TE POST
PA DAGGER
PA FL CLOWN
PA TE FLOOD
QUICK PASS
SLANTS--STICK IS COMING !
If you don't think this is powerful go back over the run tally as we speak now! Moving on to our final branch. We are missing some things to complete our scheme, but not to worry because with the SB TWIN TE FLEX we are going to find all the missing pieces to our BAMA ONEBACK MINI SCHEME.
We are going to get to SB TWIN TE FLEX by placing the HB SCREEN in our regular audibles. Now we have a basic screen pass for our scheme. Why not select another play you ask? Because most of the concepts we already have with our previous formations, we don't want duplicate plays or overlaps, we want to gain the most from this scheme squeezing every ounce of every formation to complete it. Here are the formation audibles for this set.
5. SB ACE TWIN TE FLEX
UP-STICK!!!!!FINALLY
RT-VERTICALS
DN-COUNTER****(PERFECT COMPLIMENT TO OUR ALREADY SOLID RUN GAME)
LT--PA CTR WAGGLE--PERFECT COMPLIMENT OUR RUNS ESPECIALLY THE COUNTER
The scheme is complete, and all of this by coming out in one formation and one play--SB BIG "STRETCH", we now have the following at our fingertips at any time we feel need to go to.
REGULAR AUDIBLES-- I left one open, that can be the final piece you may want to play around with. That's what I intend to do
HB POWER-SB ACE TWINS
POWER O-SB ACE BIG WING
Z SPOT--SB ACE TWIN TE
HB SCREEN SB ACE TWIN TE FLEX
Our tally of plays for our scheme includes the following
RUNS
STRETCH
HB POWER
HB DIVE
POWER O
INSIDE ZONE
HB COUNTER
QUICK PASS
SLANTS
STICK
INTERMEDIATE PASS
TE CROSS
SMASH
CORNERSTRIKE
Z SPOT
FLK DIG
VERTICALS
PLAY ACTION
PA TE POST
PA DAGGER
PA FLK CLOWN
PA TE FLOOD
PA CTR WAGGLE
All of this and HB SCREEN as well! There you have it, "IRISHFBFAN1'S BAMA ONEBACK ATTACK". I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you give it a try and feel free to add or take out as you please. I feel one can gain a lot from this scheme even though you may not use this book. Carefully selecting plays that do not overlap, carefully selecting sets that may be fused together to create schemes, carefully utilizing and memorizing your formation audibles to use as your advantage, and finally carefully placing effective run or pass concepts in your regular audibles to use when needed or use to move from one set to another, all of this is what helps you develop a solid scheme. I hope I have helped many of you, and I hope you have enjoyed this ride through the BAMA Book, I know I have enjoyed it myself. SEE YOU IN THE LAB!
IRISHFBFAN1
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