Adapting the Up-Tempo Spread Offense To Today's Wing-T -The Passing Game - 2 Disc Set

Coach Lew Johnston built an up-tempo, spread version of the Wing-T offense at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, and this clinic session takes that attack into the air. Part III of his installation series covers both drop-back and play-action passing from Wing-T formations, showing how the throw game grows straight out of the buck sweep, jet sweep and bootleg action a defense is already chasing. Every route family comes with individual rules, so the passing game installs as quickly as the run game does.

What you'll learn

• Principles of 'Cali' in the vertical passing game, plus the rules that govern it
• Receiver landmarks that keep the vertical concepts spaced correctly
• The vertical game with three wide receivers
• The halfback side screen and the wide receiver screen pass
• The 3-step quick fire game
• The double reverse pass and the triple option 'Tide Bootleg Pass'
• Individual rules for the jet sweep passes: 'Go', 'Wheel', 'Stack' and 'Flood'
• Rules for the Buck Sweep Bootleg and assignments for the Blocking Back Screen Throw-back
• Why misdirection drives the entire passing attack

Who it's for

High school offensive coordinators and Wing-T head coaches who want a modern, up-tempo throw game without giving up their base run scheme. Youth and small-college staffs running Wing-T concepts can install it just as easily.

About the coach

Lew Johnston was the head coach at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy in Virginia, where he adapted the up-tempo spread offense to the Wing-T and taught it as a series covering installation, the running game, the passing game and attacking defenses.

Part III of Coach Johnston's Wing-T series, this session is paired with a bonus segment of actual game film showing the plays run live.