No Huddle No Mercy Offense - The Screen Package

Screens accounted for 30 to 40 percent of Clairton's passing yardage, which is why Coach Shawn Liotta treats the screen game as a package rather than a change-up. This session lays out the philosophy behind it, the seven advantages screens give a no-huddle offense, and how a healthy screen game stresses a defense's depth and leverage until it stops playing fast. Then come the diagrams: five families of screens, four bubble variations, blocking responsibilities for every one, and the drills to rep them daily.

What you'll learn

• The 7 advantages of the screen game and Clairton's screen package philosophy
• How a successful screen game stresses the defense, and how to attack depth and leverage
• Five types of screens: quick, slow, double, screens packaged with runs, and sucker and gadget screens
• Four different types of bubble screens
• Specific blocking responsibilities for screen plays
• Screen diagrams from trips, empty and early motion
• Outside receiver fast screens with deuce personnel, trips, empty and jet motion
• Inside receiver fast screens, including the sucker play
• Fast screens attached to run concepts
• Slow screens: the slip screen, play-action screens and screens with the quick game attached
• Key screens including the double and triple screens, plus screen drills you can run every day

Who it's for

High school offensive coordinators, receiver coaches and offensive line coaches who want screens to be a dependable yardage source instead of an occasional gimmick. Youth and small-college staffs can install the bubble and fast-screen family straight away.

About the coach

Shawn Liotta was the offensive coordinator at Clairton High School in Pennsylvania, running the 'No-Huddle, No Mercy' offense that averaged nearly 60 points and 510 yards of total offense per game. The PIAA Mercy Rule was in effect in the second half of 12 of Clairton's 16 games.

Video four of Coach Liotta's five-part No-Huddle, No Mercy series.