If you’re going to run the Wing-T, the buck sweep is going to be somewhere in your playbook, even if it’s not your favorite play.
Here’s the thing: Defenses know that too. They know they’ll have to stop the buck sweep, so you’ll need a few wrinkles in your back pocket to protect the buck sweep play.
Today we’re talking about one of Coach David Weathersby’s favorite key-breakers, the Buck Counter.
This is taken directly from our newest release: The Complete Wing-T Playbook.
Buck Counter: 121 Scissors @ 7
In this play call, the verbiage is broken down as follows:
121 is the formation and blocking scheme call. “Scissors” tells them it is a counter play, and 7 is the hole where the ball is designed to go. The play you see below in the diagram is “121 Scissors @ 7“. If they wanted to run the play in the opposite direction, they would call “929 Scissors @ 3” and it would flip the entire call.
A big part of any Wing-T run scheme is a specific set of rules that each player has depending on the play, and this allows them to know exactly what they’re going to do no matter how the defense lines up.
The backfield action is designed to look exactly like buck sweep. The QB will follow the same path and handoff to the Diveback on the normal buck path, so for the defense keying the backfield, this looks like another buck sweep. However the Diveback will stay on the path and run underneath the Wingback, and hand the ball to him, and the Wingback then follows the pulling tackle to the weak side.
This play can be extremely deadly against defenses or players who over pursue the buck sweep, and all it takes is one guy to be out of position and the offense can hit it for a big play.
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