Jock Sutherland-Style Football Snap

[tbran1996]

This has been a great advantage to us:

#1 the QB always gets the laces this way

#2 Much easier for the QB to catch

#3 Easier for Center and we now have many kids that can snap for us.

thanks Ted

[TedSeay]

@tbran1996 - Glad to hear it helped, coach!

[ticobrown295]

I remember back in the 80s Hoboken HS using that snap but under center running the pure Delaware Wing T. They actually ran a couple of shotgun formations (not a lot, didn't have to back then, lol) and still used that snap. We thought it was illegal because the way the center was over the ball. But obviously it worked for them.

[IskurBlast]

Thanks for this. While I may stay with my traditonal method for my starting center this opens up an easier method for other players and adds much needed depth at center.

[Mega2big4u]

Dis isnt rugby and dis isnt the 1920's snap da ball like its supposed 2 b snapped like a pass not some wierd lateral

[TedSeay]

@Mega2big4u: its supposed 2 b successful, not just what u see during ur Madden 2007 marathons.

[NVWingT]

I went to this technique last year. It is a little slower but it is far easier and we did not even have the center stay after practice anymore to practice shotgun snaps anymore. This really is a great technique. I did not know there was any video on how to do it. I just saw a college team doing it and thought hey I will try that. I had the center try it was perfect from snap one.

[jim322ps]

First of all if any of you knowitalls watched Peyton Manning the ball rotates slowly back to him, I wonder why that is? This method works very well at the HS level. If I was coaching youth I would have the center use 2 hands but it is the same snap. Of course Pitts success was because of this snap, if the back doesn't get the ball you can't run the play. Thanks Coach for this video

[jamesholan]

the guy snapping the ball isn't even in a lineman stance. I'm pretty sure that is some weak ass shit. this is garbage

[TedSeay]

Thanks for sharing your football expertise, coach. That "garbage" helped Pitt win more than one national championship.

[jamesholan]

@TedSeay Im pretty sure that the style of shotgun snap used had little to do with any of the success pitt had back in the early 1900's. I'm sure thoughs championships had more to do with preperation by the players and coaches than the style of shotgun snap they used. so dont belittle there chapionships by crediting the shotgun snap.

[jamesholan]

@TedSeay I have coached at the college level and at the highschool level and this wouldnt work on either of them in todays game, and ya if i was coaching pop warner i still wouldnt teach it cause it probably work on that level either.

just cause it worked in 1919 - 1938 and cause the ball makes it all the way back to the guy dosent mean it works. I have a extra ticket to the clue bus which you can have.

[TedSeay]

@jamesholan: Thanks for your opinion.

You're dead wrong, as the other posters have noted re: Colts and other modern spread shotgun teams, but thanks in any event.

[mmataras]

@jamesholan contradicting what you are saying I play high school football and we have been in the nj state champs 3 years in a row and we snap this way. It works fine is easy and creates the abailty for more linemen to be able to play center due the the easiness of learning this technique

[OmegaSoundsStudio]

this is also known as the West Virginia snap... by some... its used alot in college you just have to pay attention as it looks no different from a spiral snap... this guy isnt a football player that is doing it in this video... also the "no spin" is great for wet games... a lot of pistol offenses and spread option teams use it because their QB depth isnt as deep so this is great for accuracy and timing

[Ast3326]

This is the dumbest way of long snapping I have ever seen in my life! So ya its easy and o so acurate, but what is the QB going to do as he gets a ball thats spinning all weird and has to re-grip it when he catches it weird. This is such a fatal snap! You can take the time and learn the spiral snap and practice it instead of doing this retarded shit.

[TedSeay]

Boy, listening comprehension just isn't what it used to be, is it?

Good luck taking your team to the Pop Warner national championships next season, coach.

[movesinc]

is there footage of this method in actual games??

[TedSeay]

Check with the athletic department at Pitt and see if they have any video of the years 1919-1938, when Dr. Sutherland was coaching there...

[movesinc]

every school in high school, college, and pro runs a shotgun at some point (if not every play) during a game and the only footage of your technique is from 1929??

[TedSeay]

No one said it was popular, only that it works...in some situations it can work better than the spiral snap. As always coaches will adapt what they find useful and discard the rest.

Where do you coach?

[jasonrisaac]

Hey Ted, You just said goodies!!!!

[TedSeay]

Yeah, and I meant it, too...

;)

[Tuzxelbeskziszk0991]

That's an interesting snap variation.

[cyrix01]

That's an interesting snap variation. I've always admired the center's job, especially on long snaps to the punter or placeholder. Nobody notices when they do a perfect job, but when they mess up... whoa!!

[mxridercrf150r]

thanks ted, i have our first jv game tommorow, and this is the method we use.

although i have found that i often break my wrsit wich then turns it end over end and goes over the wuatrebacks head,

lol

but i am working on it.

[TedSeay]

mxrider: That pop in the 'nads is what should keep the wrist from breaking.

Keep practicing, you'll have it perfected soon!

[GLaboss21]

Thanks for the post Ted, Another great tool in the box!

[davecisar]

Ted,

Well done!

[coachorr]

Wow, Robtras, you just attempted to insult one of the very best football minds around. I guess you think it is only 3 yards because your twig isn't really six inches.

[TedSeay]

1) "The guy" had never played American football before, much less shotgun-snapped the ball, which he learned in two snaps before I started the camera;

2) I'm exactly 15 feet from him, which I measured out before we shot this (the angle foreshortens the apparent distance); and

3) You're (tricky, that whole contraction vs. possessive thing) an ignorant boob. Buh-bye.

[robtras3]

your an idiot! am i the only one that noticed the guy was standing straight in the air......not not mention the fact that ur less then 5-7 yrds behind him (your about 3 yrds).......another method to get a lineman killed!