These 2 Bubble Based Offensive Plays Will Give You Both Yards And Scores
This week’s podcast is about a simple system of training a defense to see and react to one thing and then once they do, catching them off guard with another thing.
Ever heard of Pavlov’s dog? You know the story where he feeds the dog food every time he rings a bell? Soon enough whenever he rings that bell, Pavlov’s dog starts salivating even before the food is brought out.
These two plays do the same thing. Get defenses to think they know what’s coming until it’s too late.
And even after they see it, they now know it might now be true so the get a whole lot less aggressive on the first play and you can make them pick their poison.
Check out this episode to see exactly what I’m talking about.
That is a nice series. I love series football. I appreciate it especially because I like to see what might stress my defense. I have no problem defending the bubble screen in my cover 2 base. The CB comes up hard on the Y with outside leverage and the outside backer does the same with the Z and the mike fills the third gap. The safeties job is to support only. This play rarely makes any yardage against me. As far as the complementary play goes my cover 2 rotates to a cover 3 in this situation with the playside CB covering the H in the flat. The playside safety stays deep and reads the QB and the backside safety rotates to the middle and the backside CB has the backside 1/3. If my mike reads the play properly he will also drop in to coverage. It is true that a great QB who can throw it 35 yards accurately on a line can complete it but it won’t go for a TD and usually the pass will get broken up.
I agree against a hard corner the bubble is not the best option. I’d prefer the inside bubble – have the Y get the ball and the Z kick out the corner.