Jock Sutherland-Style Football Snap

A quick and easy way to teach an accurate shotgun snap to your football centers. (Make sure they wear their cups, though!)

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Sports

Tags:

• american
• football
• center
• snap
• shotgun
• single
• wing

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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