PaHsFootballRules
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Hey I know you aren't a fan of power under center, but I think I figured out how to make it work: treat it old school and run it like an A gap play. Admittedly, I have only tested this in a handful of games but it has been more successful than running counter for me.I think I'm going to expand my under center stuff in both of my spread playbooks. I talked about some under center formations in my Spread I 2.0 write-up because of how Malzahn uses fire alarm quick huddle plays to run a quick crack toss or PA or other plays coming out of the huddle to disguise formation. I'm thinking about doing that some now. I never really did it my first time through because my playbook was so huge, but I have a bunch of room now that I ripped a ton of stuff out. Just put in like a handful of special formations tailored to my personnel and go from there.
It'll mostly be stuff like Ace Bunch and some Strong/Weak stuff. Ace has the good End Around/End Around Slash/PA End Around series, Strong has some good HB Sweep, FB Dive (with fake Sweep action) and PA FB as well. Plus there is GL Twins Over that has some nice stuff and a QB Sneak. Weak Normal has the Y Over Fly Sweep series. There is some good stuff. I think I need to get into at least a little under center just to provide a few different looks. My Spread-I especially suffers because despite having around 25 total formations, they are really only 4 different formations to opponents. 2x1, 2x2, 3x1, 3x2.
I've been going back over a ton of Malzahn materials and film for some inspiration and I really like what the under center stuff can do as a change-up to a typical spread.
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