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Can the veer work well as a youth offense?
By: Dum Coach
At one time my team was a feeder to a local HS program and they ran the veer (The HS coach was the former head coach of the University of Idaho Vandals) so I had to run it too. The Houston (option) Veer formation looks like this: O O O 0 O O O
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Pretty much the entire offense is based off the dive play to the "Twins" side with most of the stuff to the TE side being counters off the dive. The line is almost always blocking "down" on the playside with the QB reading the unblocked man on the LOS. The ease with which this offense moves downfield is just amazing. If a play only goes for 2-3 yards, everyone on the coaching staff is wondering "What happened?" because, otherwise, it should get five yards (dive) or ten (option). Coach Malcolm is familiar with this style of attack (Although he uses "Outside Veer" when I was using mostly "Inside Veer" mixed with some "outside veer"). I only ran this for one year as there were some QB problems with it. The "power" formation off the Veer looks like this: O O O 0 O O O
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The flanker in this formation lines up as a WB in order to threaten a downblock on the DE. To avoid that the DE moves out. The strong side TE and OT now "crossblock" the "C" gap with the near HB lead blocking through the hole and the backside back as the ball carrier. The rest of the line blocks "on" or inside gap and the FL takes either the CB or the near safety. Probably the world's simplest play and it will get you 5 yards a pop. If the defense rotates to your strong side, you can run the exact same play to your weakside since you no longer need the FL as a blocker to that side. If the DE closes up the off tackle hole, you just down block him with the FL and send both backs on sweep, with QB either tossing to the second back or following himself on a reverse pivot as the ball carrier. Again, the rest of the line blocks "on" or inside gap. If they put a defender in "B" gap you call off the "cross" block and let the OT block down and the TE kick out. After you get tired of pounding them using the FL on the right, you can reverse the formation simply by putting the FL on the left and starting all over again. As a changeup, you can run dive to the "B" gaps and "crossbuck" to the "A" gaps or trap them. I don't think it gets any simpler than this. I kicked butt with it for years. It doesn't light up the scoreboard much but it will get you to the playoffs. I did get stopped once in awhile, but it was pretty rare. The real drawback is in the passing game. The formation is, passing wise, similiar to the DW but worse in that you can only threaten three receivers downfield instead of four. To complete a pass you either have to go vertical or run a pick or HB delay. This made the formation very unpopular with my FL's who did mostly nothing but block for the two backs who get the ball 90% of the time(It may look like you can put the FL in motion and use him as a back in the running game but you can't. The position of the HB's does not allow for this.). This is why I went to the wing T.
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