One of Coach Tom Yashinsky’s go to plays to get the football in his best player’s hands with his power spread offense is the fly sweep.

In the last 3 seasons, the Hilltoppers have called fly sweep including all of its variations and different formations 80 times averaging 7.5 yards per play and one of the reasons they’ve been so successful is because they’ve helped their players master how to run it the right way.

That’s why today we’re going to talk about how Coach Yashinsky drills the fly sweep to maximize its effectiveness on game day!

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The Best Way to Drill Fly Sweep

Above is a snapshot into how Coach Yashinsky drills the fly sweep as the Head Coach at Onalaska (WI).

Key Notes:

• In this instance, they aren’t using the centers but they usually do. This particular day they were off working on something else.
• Have every WR/RB work exchanges during this drill period. You never know who you’re going to need to depend on to make a play on Friday or Saturday night! Also, even if you aren’t going to give the ball to certain kids who run the fly, the defense still respects it so they need to have the timing down. 
• Have your TEs, FBs, and H-Backs work their steps on each other.
• Each QB has a cadence. Don’t try to send everyone off on one cadence.

The way this drill is set up is that the two centers are aligned where the “C”s are drawn above. The line in the middle represents the divider between the two groups running fly sweep.

On the perimeter there’s a group of WRs that are taking the fly sweep and an arrow representing the direction that they’re running the drill in. The RBs are also sprinkled into these lines as well to make sure everyone is getting reps.

The group of TEs and H-Backs are working reach blocks to seal the edge for the ball carrier to get around. 

Again, each QB goes on their own cadence. This allows each signal caller to practice timing up the play on their own and prevents difficulties from two groups trying to go in rhythm.

The cones on the outside represent the landmark of the OT. They have this shown because the QB wants to snap the ball right about when the fly player reaches the OT.

The goal of this drill is to get everyone working the play at full speed.

Onalaska chooses to give the exchange to their fly sweep player with a short touch pass. You can work a mesh, but it doesn’t hurt to add the result of the play to the passing yards column on the stat sheet… Onalaska has done both ways in the past, but the touch pass is what they’ve chosen to use recently.

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