Double Wing Counter Toss

This play is a pitch to the non motion wing back. The other team was a well coached double wing team themselves so we dug deep into the playbook for this one. The only time we ran it all year I think. We were down by 2 scores with around 8 minutes left to go in the game. This first down TD play got us within 1 score and made it a ball game. We eventually came back to win it.

For double wingers we use normal counter blocking. We just pitch the counter rather then hand it off.

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• Double WIng
• Ogden Bears
• 2008 PW Black
• Counter

[TheFatOne93]

@coachtinney My highschool team runs an offense built around the double wing and I would love it if they used this play in it too.

[TheFatOne93]

@H2HOtex Since the opposing team runs the same offense they will look in the backfield and see its a counter. Since the qb did no inside handoff it was generally a quicker counter.

[coachtinney]

@ H2HOtex The idea is that the counter wing back 'intercepts" the toss to the motion back. From the players view it can be very deceiving. They had shut us down pretty well all day up until that. They would see counter and power very quickly. They knew us and the DW play book very well. Not saying it is the best play in the world but for this situation against this team it did the trick.

[H2HOtex]

@TheFatOne93 But it was ran identically as a normal double wing counter except they pitched the ball 2ft in front of back. A handoff would have scored here too without the risk. No different read for linebackers. They are in Double Wing.

[TheFatOne93]

@H2HOtex Because in the description he said the opponents ran double wing well. That means they would've sniffed out a regular counter. Change up what the backs do, and those linebackers reading will react as if they weren't a double wing team.

[H2HOtex]

why pitch? I never seen it done this way. Seems unnecessary.

[kenellsmith]

excellent use of the toss counter. my team we have 2 variation s of it