Air Force has mastered the ability to block their various run schemes in different ways.
That’s one of the major reasons that they’ve been able to run the football so effectively year after year.
Today we’re going to talk through a simple but effective way that they change the responsibilities of their G Scheme run play to serve a variety of purposes for their offense!
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Air Force’s G Scheme Back Pin
This variation of G Scheme is very similar to the standard version that Air Force runs, but this one trades the roles of the fullback and slot back.
In this scenario, the FB is going to pin the LB and the slot is going to work to the safety as is shown above.
This creates size-on-size with the FB and LB which equalizes the playing field and is a great answer if the slot back is struggling to block the guy that the defense has playing LB.
In this example, the QB’s pitch key comes right to him, giving a clean pitch read.
The FB and the slot do a nice job on the perimeter and the pitch back is able to win with speed on the outside.
One of the most important factors on this play is how your program teaches perimeter blocking because it will greatly impact how long this play can break for each time that you run it.
The key with this play, is that there’s a time and a place for each variation of this run scheme in Air Force’s offense.
In some situations, the FB on the safety is the ideal matchup for the offense to get a blocking mismatch on a secondary player, but Coach Jake Campbell and the rest of the Air Force staff have mastered how to use each variation in a strategic fashion.
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