Stress Values – Using Formations to Disguise Your 2-Back Offense

Glenn Caruso's Stress Values for the two-back offense shows how formations can disguise a 2-back attack and stress a defense at the same time. Plenty of offensive schemes have the potential to be explosive, but the common thread among the most explosive, regardless of scheme, is the ability to stress defenses with formations, find the voided areas and get the ball into the open space. This session applies Coach Caruso's Stress Value method to doing exactly that from two-back personnel.

What you'll learn

• What Stress Value is and how it pressures a defense
• The Rules of Subtraction
• The use of +1 schemes
• High stress formations for a 2-back offense
• High Stress Values applied to the check game
• Using formations to disguise your two-back personnel and find the voided areas

Who it's for

High school and college offensive coordinators who run two-back personnel and want to stress and disguise with formations, and coaches who have watched Coach Caruso's first Stress Values video.

About the coach

Glenn Caruso became the 29th head coach in the history of University of St. Thomas football and engineered the biggest turnaround in Division III football: a 2-8 team went 7-3 in his first season, then 11-2 with an NCAA quarterfinal berth, 12-1 and 13-1, climbing from a national ranking of 206 to No. 3 in three years.

Includes game film. Runtime: about 52 minutes.