Pt. 5 Passing Game pt 1 30 & 40 SeriesPassing Game: Introduction The passing game is broke down into 8 sections,Short(30), Close(40), Tail(50), Half(60), Sprint(70),Playaction(80), Goal line(90) & Screens.x0 indicates Strongside blocking by the FBx1 indicates Backside blocking by the FB. For this writeup I am going to only deal with play running one direction, No Flipping, First because it will take less space and less artwork, but also because due to motioning/and lack of across motion plays except for the 60 series you tend almost have to handle the game with Y going across.

There are a few exceptions of course and I discuss those through this portion of the Guide.All plays chosen that are altered can be ran as is and are good plays in their own right. This is just how I like to run them within a loose framework of the Shoot ideals.HR means you Hot Route the Receivers and Superback accordingly30/31 Series (3 step drop)Trigger is a Curl Flat Slant combo off a short dropExample of 30 Z TriggerIt is based off Curl Flats from Slot Right. It give the QB 4 routes.X – CurlW – FlatY – SlantZ – DragIt is 30 because the FB blocks to the strongside (trips) and Z because he is the backside receiver.At the huddle break, HR Z to a Drag and F to block to the strongside. Motion Y across the formation and HR to slant.

If Y is followed your primary Read is ZIf Zone Y is your primary readYour secondary Read is W’s FlatThird is X curlyour fourth read is either Y or Z depending on your initial man/zone read.If Z was primary Y is 4th as he hits the far hashIf Y was primary Z is 4th as he hits the far hashHere is the play before Hot Routing.Other Plays that you can use to create Trigger.Curl Flats Trips Left (Y to Slant or leave as post, Z to drag F to block Strongside)Curl Flats Slot Left (same as above)Levels Is a modern Shoot play developed by June Jones, it is based of Homer Rice’s “Tracks” play to help in attacking Cover 3 schemes. Read more »

Run Game:Back and Hole Break down.Backs Numbering in (#) Hole Above……………………..7…5..3..1.0..2..4…6X…………………………T..G..C..G..T…………………………Z…………………….(3)W……..Q(1)….Y(4)………………………………….F(2)So, QB (1) FB (2) W (3) Y (4)1 is between C and LG3 is between LG and LT5 is between LT and W7 is outside of W0 is between C and RG2 is between RG and RT4 is between RT and Y6 is outside of YI have the run game split into 3 blocking techniques used by the blocking Slotback: Arc, Seal, & Lead, and then Misdirection plays.When in Trips and Slot sets the Slot uses the Stalk technique that the SE’s use.On any given game I don’t use all of these plays, and some way less than others. However, for the full scope of this being used by both shooters and option guys I will break down how I use the plays.Upon further inspectionit occurred to me that EA has most all of the Arc blocking to the Weakside, and the Seal to the Strongside. Why they did this I don’t know but it does give merit to the inclusion of both a triple option str and triple option and triple option counter and triple option counter wk. Would have made more sense to me to call them what they are, but it is EA we are talking about here.Arc Technique (the Slotback pivots out towards the numbers and searches out the S or CB)Triple OptionTr Cntr WkLoad Option To Trips MotionLoad Option Str Whirly MotionSpeed Sweep Wk Jet Sweep can be either to 2/3 hole or 4/5 holeWB Toss WkSeal Technique (the Slotback heads upfield and tries to take out the OLB playside)Tr. Option StrTr. Option CntrSpeed Sweep Jet Sweep can be either to 2/3 hole or 4/5 holeSpeed Option StrWB Toss StrLead Technique (the Slotback lead blocks giving runner a lane)Midline QB IsoWB DiveMisdirection (plays that use Tail motion as deception to create over reaction from the Defense)Trap OptionWB Misdirection WB Sally can be either to 2/3 hole or 4/5 holeFB TrapSo after thinking long and hard how to go about writing up the running game, I decided to simply take what I would call a one game snapshot of a running gameplan. This basically amounts to 3 series which we will call: City, Highway, & Offroad.The point of these series is to give you 3 ways to apply a run game that can be successful in different weather, and against both the 34 and 43.What about 42, 44 and 33? You say…When I face a single high safety defense I treat the running game much differently than I do a traditional 7 man front with the occasion al 8th or 9th man in the box. After I finish up the main collective of the guide I will go back and do a gameplan on the single high safety Defenses.City:City is based around the Tail/Whirly motion and consists of 7 Core Plays plays that give a similar appearance. The FB Dive, Triple Option, Counter Option, WB Toss, Speed Option, Load Option, and WB Sally.FB DiveTriple OptionCounter OptionWB TossSpeed OptionLoad OptionWB SallySo how/when do I use these plays?Well to start off, I read the box, if there is 8 defenders I will audible to a pass, However, if there is 7 or less, I study the field and access what is going on, If there is more defenders to one side of the field I will flip the play and run it to that side. If it is an inside run and I feel the D will pinch the inside I will audible to an outside run, aka a Toss play, Sally or Dbl Option.Further ExplanationYou will notice that from my Audibles I have the ability to call a Triple Option play, then audible to a pass, inside run or outside run based on the D.So if I call say, the Arc Triple (Triple Option from Normal) I can Audible to these plays, within the City Series.FB Dive (Formation Audible)WB Toss (User Audible)and these pass playsPA Switch (Formation Audible)PA WB Post (User Audible)Quick Slants (Formation Audible)So six plays with Tail motion, If City is working well against the team I am playing I might replace 60 Go (User Audible) with PA Curl Flat and Jet Sweep Wk with WB Sally. If a play is working think about moving it into your audibles so if you see the same kind of D that it worked off last time you ran it you have it at your disposal.I usually work first with Arc blocking on the Option Game. However, if the Slotback keeps missing his block or the D is throwing a lot of LBs in man which is killing the pitch, then look to use the Seal scheme as the Slotback will attack closer in and usually heads up on a defender which then frees up the pitch a bit more. Although getting a good pitch off the To is near impossible. EA successfully made the TOs basically no more than a Zone Read play.It is important to use Sally and the Load Option with Whirly Motion to keep the defense honest. Over pursuit is your friend if you work away from it.The name of the game in the City series is that slow and steady wins the race, eventually you will end up on a drag race through downtown if you are patient and vary your attack.Highway:The name of the game for Highway is Across motion setting up the 60 series and plays from Trips Left. (If EA had given us the ability to Flip plays at the audible select screen, I could say trips right plays too, but alas they didn’t.)Highway Consists of 6 Core Plays,Jet Sweep WkFB Option from Trips Left or from Slot Right (motion Slot Across to create Trips)Picture SoonFB Dive from Trips LeftSpeed Option from Trips LeftPicture SoonWB Toss from Trips LeftPicture SoonFB Trap From Slot Right (motion Slot Acrossto create Trips)Load Option Str from Slot Left (motion Slot Across to create Trips)Picture soonSay What? yeah 1 play from Double Slot. The rest involve utilizing The FB Option from trips left user audible. EA chose not to give us a single run that utilizes the Slotback Motion of the 60 series, so we gotta do something to correct that, all we can do is fake it, Bad EA… [Spanks their nose with a rolled up newspaper] Bad EA…Fortunately you can use the 2 Jet Sweep plays out of Double Slot to develop this aspect, So yes if you are going to use the 60 series a lot you will want to use this series a lot. From the Jet Sweep, I work it this way.Further Explanation:Call a play, 60 series usually or Jet Wk from Double Slot, (though truthfully any play from Double Slot or Slot Right/Slot Left[Flipped] can be called) get to the line and scan numbers.If it favors a run: audible to either the Jet Wk user audible, or The FB option user audible.If someone follows Y out: Flip the Option play to the weakside, or audible to the FB Dive.If they start to really over shift on the motion, you can put Speed Option, Jet Sweep, WB Toss from Trips Left in place of WB Toss (Double Slot) and give them fits with the counter action it provides.If you are using a lot of Slot sets you can use the FB Trap, FB Option, the broken Load Option Str i.e. run plays from the slot sets without Tail or Whily motion to create Trips left or Trips Right, which will help set up the 60 series from Slot Left. It will also help set up pass plays from both sets I will discuss later that create 60 series with pre read/hard routing.There is a lot of misdirection you can accomplish especially against humans as once you motion across a few times they are expecting the play to go that direction.This series sets up/compliments these pass plays nicely.Spoiler60 Go (from both Double Slot and Slot left(Flipped so it looks like Slot Right)60 Choice (from both Double Slot and Slot left(Flipped so it looks like Slot Right)Curl Flat (Formation Audible from Trips Left)PA Switch (Formation Audible from Trips Left)Any Trips Left pass play you want to add as an audible.In the end this series is used primarily to set up across motion. By using the Jet Sweep from Double Slot you can run the 60 series to both sides. After working the Jet, Dive, and FB Option going to the Left. Applying plays that counter the across motion can really jack up an opposing player.Offroad:Well sometiems we all want to just get away from it all and go tear up shit. Offroad is like that in that it includes important plays to the system that to me do have a core consept, and can when the D is caught off guard get you big gains.The Offroad is based around 3 core plays which on the outside don’t seem that similar but once you look at the backside Slotback’s Motion tract and how the playside Slot reacts, deliver some linkage.The Core Plays are:SpoilerMidline QB IsoWB DiveTrap OptionSo What Do These Plays Have in Common? Well all three have the Backside Slot carrying the Tail motion to right behind FB, on the other tail motion plays the peak at a spot most acknowledged with the location of a Wishbone HB. This extended motion gives you a couple advantages players who start guessing your play off tail motion will get caught off guard and will often commit offsides by jumping the snap count. (against CPU) not as important. The other thing they share is the playside Slot or FB lead blocks into the Line, (Trap Option is the exception) this gives you a bit of a smash mouth feel that is often said to be lacking in both the Shoot and Spread Option scheme. The trap Option is included here because one it’s success rate is umm… questionable, but on occasion you can really catch a human opponent off guard.How I use these plays, When all else isn’t working, when things look dire, I can almost always get yardage from the ISO and the Dive, I use the ISO ad a FB Lead play with the FB going in behind the playside Slot. The WB Dive man that play can be your Bread and butter if it needs to be, Basically creates a I Slot look.Further ExplanationSpoilerWhere can you link these games in to your passing game, With the Offroad you can link it up with WB Toss, WB Sally, even the triple option game.Within the Passing Game the Playaction plays, but also those same plays with tail motion used as 60 series plays like Slide, Sting, Switch, & Smash.The Trap Option, man what can we do… it is so damn tempting to do, but it almost always fails. When doesn’t it, well if you are playing a a human opponent that you have frightened into a nickel, Dime, Quarters D… Bingo, it usually is good for some nice runs, mixed in with the rest of the mixture. It is always something to keep in your toolkit.Conclusion:I find that when you start to over analyze how the D will react to the running game the more trouble you get into. So with that in mind, I try to keep it simple if you are facing a tough interior & if inside runs are getting blown up, go outside the Toss being the first choice since it develops at least somewhat fast. If the outside is being stopped go inside with The Dive/Give or the Jet Sweep or Sally up the 2/3 hole. Don’t forget to throw in the misdirection plays, no matter that the D is doing, just to keep them honest.Also, if you are facing a 34 go to using the Close formation sticking to the City Series. The Load Option to Trips usually gets you out to the flank when run to the soft side of the D.

Pt. 3 Formations & MotionThe Formations:This Offense can be used from Army, Navy or Georgia Tech’s Playbook. I use Navy’s because well its the one I have used for a long time. The only difference in the three is a couple plays in the goal ling tight set which I do not use. thus you can choose which one you prefer.From this point on Flexbone Normal will be referred to as Double Slot in holding with Tiger and Mouse’s vernacular.In this offense a players letter never changes so, X will always be X he will also always be on the Left side of the field. In the first years of the offense implementation I do use a strongside – weakside concept with the slotbacks so they do flip. Y is always the outside Slot on Trips and Slot sets and Flanker on Trio and Tackle Over. Once I have good balance in the roles of my slot players I use less of the S/W philosophy.Through the Slot Strong formation sub package the SE is on the line and HB 2 is at Flanker.I sub in HB2 at FL and have my best blocking SE on the Line, and the best reserve OL at TE.Motions:The motion scheme for this offense is very simple; this is because EA’s coders are about as bright as the bald nutsack of a newborn. There are four primary motions for the offense Across, Tight, Tail and Whirly. If no Motion occurs it is called Hard.Across: the Slotback/Flanker will motion across the formation and align between the OT and the SE. this is denoted as either Rip or Liz. In TacO he continue to be uncovered once across.Tight: the Slotback/Flanker will motion to the outside hip of the exposed Tackle creating a 2×2 set. this is denoted as Rob and Leo.Tail: the Backside Slotback will motion to a position behind the FB.Whirly: this is the misdirection version of Tail Motion. The SlotBack to the play side start tail motion and then reverses field at the snap.

This is the first Part of a Series of notes concerning the Shoot-Bone Offense devised by my buddy salukifan.
A true student to the game as you will see in this series, salukifan combines 2 of the most prolific offenses and ties them all into one creating a devastating scheme.
It is with his permission I give you an outstanding writeup for you to enjoy, and hopefully employ.
Guys, I introduce to you salukifan, and his Shoot-Bone Offense! (irish)
The Shoot-Bone is about getting you base personnel involved in all phases of your offensive scheme. It’s about spreading the field, taking the ball where your opponents aren’t and putting up a lot of points. In reality it comes from my desire to replicate the offense I was part of back in my high school days, or daze, heh… So flash back to the mid 80s I was a slot back in our run and shoot offense created by Tiger Ellison which is discusses in his book “The Run and Shoot offense: The Now Attack.” When I started playing football video games there really wasn’t any way to play the run and shoot until the games moved to computer and several games gave you the ability to create your own plays. From there my journey went to console games entering the new millennium including EA’s NCAA series. For the last four or five years I have been toying with recreating the offense with the flexbone formation, which is in fact taken directly from the formation Ellison’s potent offense was created, thus bringing me home to my old HS days.
Anyways, enough of that below is how I have run my offense for the last 2 years since EA added Go and Choice to the pass plays of the flexbone offense. It is a hybrid of run and shoot passing mixed with a flexbone running scheme.
What is the Run & Shoot:
The Run and Shoot offense has become a multi-layered offense that has grown from one man’s idea of making football fun again for his team which was suffering from a losing season with now escape in sight, to an offense that can be operated from the under center, shotgun and now Pistol. Originally Tiger envisioned it to be an offense that took what the defense and weather gave them, which could mean a lot of passing yards and big plays, or could mean grinding it out with traps, counters, end-arounds, dives, leads & what would become later the triple option. Through innovators like June Jones and Mouse Davis it became a powerful passing offense that stretched the field, tore up yardage, and blew out lights on scoreboards.
What is the Flexbone:
Air Force Academy Head Coach Fisher DeBerry has been quoted as saying “we need to be more flexible in the Bone.” However, the version of Flexbone in the game is more representative of Paul Johnson’s spread option attack which was originally designed around Georgia Southern’s brilliant QB Tracy Ham, becoming the first quarterback to rush for 3,000 yards and pass for 5,000 yards in a career. Johnson was an assistant on the team that Ham lead to the Eagles to 2 D-Iaa National Championships. The offense that would lead the Eagles to 6 national titles, and the only 15-0 season record, was originally dubbed the Ham-Bone and blended components of the wishbone triple option offense and the Run and shoot offense refined by Mouse Davis at Portland St. A marked note, the option-style running game of the Flexbone can be linked to Ellison’s Cowboy and Gangster series, so in the end Ellison is responsible in some degree to 2 great offenses.
So What the Heck is the Shoot Bone:Well simply put, it is a balanced offense that utilizes concepts from Johnson’s Spread Option, Mouse’s refined Run & Shoot, along with a few wrinkles from other coaches who have used the R&S. The goal is to take what the defense gives you, one game you might put up 400 yds passing the next 400 rushing. However, the ideal is to balance out near a 50-50 split. So far with this year’s game, I have averaged 287.4yds a game in the air and 221.8 on the ground. Scoring has been a steady 37.4 a game in my cpu dynasties and 31.1 in my in house dynasty with 4 other players.
Also, with how I run this offense, a majority of the time I come out with a pass called or in a trips/slot set and then audible to a run if the numbers are in my favor.
I rotate my audibles throughout the game. Rarely what I have set as base is what I have in the end. I also make use formation audibles in conjunction user audibles.
For example:
I have Trips Left FB option set and it almost always stays set because I use it to create a trips set from normal or Slot Right. From there I can keep that audible or formation audible to FB dive or Curl flats, but more on this later.
Going through the Flexbone to run the Run & Shoot you get these advantages:A better running Game, (more ways to run, downhill running, misdirection, counters, Option game)
A way to develop a Great Super Back (FB), who is one of the most important factors in the Shoot. (Thus, why he is called the Super Back)
Counters to every possible scheme, and weather, (A primary reason Tiger had 5 variant offensive series)
It is a set of formations that uses your entire roster spots and spreads the ball around to your playmakers.
Using HBs as your Slots, gives you small quick players who can catch and run the ball to the perimeter.
Using WRs solely as Split Ends you can always have 4/5 solid outside receivers who can catch and block.
For Example:
You don’t get stuck trying to figure out how to arrange your depth chart to really utilize that 5′ 8″ – 5′ 11″ quick WR. It is solved he is a Slotback(HB). Your best 2 Split Ends are your Starters and your two Best catching HBs are you 3rd and 4th WRs on your depth chart. Your 3rd and 4th WRs are 5th and 6th WRs.
When the score gets out of hand and the Game decides for you to autosub in your 2nd string, Fucking reset it to the First String, and make the changes you want to your depth chart, (this is my biggest Peeve with autosubs, let me fucking decide not the damn cpu.)
You have a way to develop your FB into a beast that can protect your QB, destroy the D on runs up the middle, and when needed can take a pitch to the outside on the dbl options.
The Rules:The basic rules of the Run and Shoot are:If the defender goes deep, cut shortIf the defender presses, go deepIf the defender goes inside, go outIf the defender goes out, go in
How this applies to plays where there is no option route is through pre-reading the D.If the defender is back, cut short with a curl or a slant/dragIf the defender presses, go deep with the flyIf the defender goes inside, go to the sidelines with an out or outside release slant.If the defender goes out, go in with a slant or drag.
Since in this system some hot routing to create the plays are almost always necessary, you must limit your pre-read to one or two players at most. Thus since the base 60 series Go/Choice is in 2 sets of my book you sometimes will have to focus on those if you can’t get the hot routes/reads nailed or mapped fast enough.
On a pass play if there is 6 or less in the box audible to a run.
On a run play if there is 8 in the box pass.
You will note that this varies from the standard run and shoot rule, the reason is if you audibled to a pass every time you had 7 in the box using the Flexbone sets you’d never run, and a big part of this offense is balance.
Part 2 will look at Personnel and Recruiting.

Hey guys,

Join me this year as I will be playing each bowl game match-up either against the CPU or another human before the game is played in real life! I did this last year, most of the games against the CPU because it is sometimes hard to find people to play with certain teams online. But, if you guys want to do for fun human vs human I am in! Otherwise play it against the CPU, lot of fun.
I will first do a SIM game CPU VS CPU before I play myself either once again vs CPU or another human. I want to keep track on how closely the scores are with real life, as well as the other features such as wins, stats, National Champions, everything involved.
We will probably just all meet here with all the game inputs, your recordings etc…Haven’t decided whether to do an individual thread for each game or not. I know there will be a lot of discussion about schemes with the teams involved as well as all the close similarities that we may encounter.
Some things I want you guys to strive for. I want you to flip a coin to decide which team you will be using in that particular bowl. I already did for the SUN Bowl and I got Notre Dame lol. You can play if it is your favorite team but if no favorite flip the coin. You play on the level you wish using the sliders you are comfortable with.
Quarter length and all the settings are up to you. I don’t want you to be uncomfortable playing it is supposed to be for fun. Just make sure when you report back to the thread that you list all the settings. Come back and tell us some of the important info such as who won, some of the outstanding stats etc…We will compare to real life. Also, make sure you sim the game cpu vs cpu first, only takes a second. With the sim you only need the score but it would be nice to hear about everything else.
I want you guys using the default playbook. This is important because it will open your eyes to other books, concepts, formations, and put you in a critical situation which is a very good thing that can only make you better as a player overall. So, if you drew Oregon in the National Championship Game then you use their playbook.
I will have more details within the next few days about all the info you need to record.
Join me, make yourself better at NCAA 11 with more knowledge about all the different playbooks we will be encountering. I will allow you to choose your defense because it will already be tough enough with a new offense, have to balance things out to get some realistic results.
If you would like to share any other ideas that we may use please let me know on this thread asap because I am writing them up as we speak,
Lets Knock this out! Lets have some fun with this, and lets see how close and how ironic things can be with the video game and real life. Lets also open our eyes to some new schemes that may change the way we play NCAA 11! Post your results here: TGL Bowl Game Bonanza

-IRISH