Why Do Teams Use Bunch Formations And How Do They Work?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- If you've ever wondered what's going on with bunch formations on offense this is the video for you...
Hey everybody, welcome to elite athletes TV. I'm Mike Pawlawski. Today I want to talk to you about bunch formations. As a young quarterback, oftentimes, when your offensive coordinator, your head coach, whoever's in charge your offense starts putting in new formations, new looks that seem really exotic, it gets intense, it gets intimidating. It seems like there is a lot to figure out today I'm going to talk about bunch formations, why you use them, what they do for you as an offense, and how as a quarterback, you should think about them conceptually.
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Now, let's talk about the bunch package. So why do teams use bunch package? Obviously, for years and years football had standard formations, wide receivers split out maybe you had a slot in the game, you're in 11 personnel maybe had two backs tied in Split no tight in the game, but use a slot instead. And say had only standard formations that were traditional in football. What they did in those formations is they try to attack the vertical passing game. And so in the vertical passing game, you're trying to take advantage of holes in zones. Same idea with man vertical passing game outside air Coryell, let's go down the field. Darrell Lamonica, a huge proponent of the vertical passing game, he's a good friend of mine. He loved throwing that ball down the field. That's why they called him the Mad Bomber. Along comes Bill Walsh. I'll talk more about the West Coast offense and the origins later, but he develops a West Coast offense. Now instead of this big vertical passing game, we're trying to break off small chunks within the passing game. A four yard reception is just as good as a four yard run. And so it makes defenses cover more space, then you start bringing in new pieces to that offense, the bunch package getting three receivers together in space. What is it? By putting three receivers stacked on top of each other in the bunch.
There are about a million different bunch plays that I could draw up for you. They also create a lot of leverage a lot of mismatches a lot of personnel issues in the run game. So I'm not going to draw up all those plays. I just want you to understand that when teams are going to bunch. They're trying to create space. They're trying to create leverage. They're trying to create confusion, and they're trying to create mismatches. You can do it the pass game or the run game. But that's what the bunch package is all about. It's a great tool to use in your offense if you're a young quarterback. Don't get confused. Don't be intimidated. A bunch package is awesome. And once you understand what you're trying to accomplish with each play, it gets pretty clean pretty quick. If you like what I did today, if you love the X's and O's, make sure you subscribe to the channel ring that bell that way you get notified every time we have new stuff coming out. Give me a thumbs up if you understand more how to use the bunch package in your passing game. Also, leave me a comment. I'd love to hear from you what you thought about today's video or any of the other videos on the channel or what you'd like to see from us here at eliteathletestv.com and don't forget to share this video out I appreciate you watching I tried to help you with a little bit of quarterback training, improve your football skills, improve your football knowledge, hopefully make you a better player. - กีฬา
Great work👍I think Al Davis had a huge role in shaping the vertical passing game and bunches too. Bill Walsh was an assistant under Davis with the Raiders.
I believe Al Davis started as a coach with Coryell in SD.
Running this for our MS boys and this is gold, thank you!
Excellent!
Thanks coach, awesome stuff, any ideas on tight bunch out of unbalanced sets? what are your favorite run schemes out of bunch? thanks again!
Great combos !
Love it want to learn more about bunch
great content!
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Hi Mike - I enjoyed and still remember you in the AFL - Albany if I remember correctly! I had one question on the origin of bunch formations - would you say they are a product of the WCO or Air Raid.. I know that the Air Raid came from the BYU (college WCO) Offense combined with some R&S and Mumme/Leach ingenuity, but the Air Raid really was a Spread Style passing set compared to the WCO and really went to the 4 WR or 3X1 quicker I think... or am I wrong. Gibbs was a Coryell guy and didn't he use some 3X1 sets? The R&S motioned to 3x1 all the time. But the actual bunch set -- when did that start to become a "thing" - was it the Air Raid or when the WCO started to Spread Out and use more variety in personnel groupings - not only the 21 and 12 formations. I remember thinking that what Callahan brought to Nebraska was a real spread version of the WCO... New England was more EP combined with the Spread Urban Meyer was doing. Charlie Weiss had R&S in his background.
I also wanted to make note of SID GILLMAN. He started this whole idea of Space + Timing over Personnel - which led back to Personnel in terms of 1on1 Matchups so popular now - especially at the top level in the NFL. But Sid was ahead of his time - as was his mentor Frances Schmidt, who, btw, coached with Dutch Meyer who ran the first real Spread Offense that he learned from Rusty Russell who was running it in the 1920s! 5 WR sets!
But Sid took all of this amazing ingenuity from Dutch to Frances and systemized it. Not only in the passing game, he had a lot to do with space blocking - Zone Run Game - that's where Lombardi got his run to daylight concept. Coryell used Sid and Dutch to form his offense. Walsh also used both and I think Tiger Ellison's R&S a bit as well. But it's really Sid who understood Space. Also, on Defense - he coached Bum Phillips and loved the 3-4 idea. He also coached Bill Arnsparger - and these guys knew Hank Bullough (thru Fairbanks and Shula) and he taught LeBeau ( who also learned from Arnsparger) - thus the whole Zone Blitz idea that is the Defense that can deal with the Spread --- and Power Spread.
One more guy - Clark Shaughnessy deserves mention - LeBeau played under coaches in Detroit who come directly from Shaughnessy. Shaughnessy was all about the Timing Concept of Option Football and Play Action Fakes and Mis Direction. Kyle Shanahan practically runs a WCO mixed with the mis direction of the Modern T of Shaughnessy and some Power Spread ideas. Shaughnessy also had an effect on Gillman --- he really saw the value in Zone Defense ahead of his time -- I think that influenced Steve Owen and his Umbrella Defense which in turn effected Tom Landry and his Flex Defense.
Great TH-cam - thanks!
@@quinnschroetlin fyi Gillmans mentor is Frances Schmidt. There’s a great book on him. Very interesting guy. Ahead of his time in play design. Did it from the single and double wings. But the condensed formations (compared to today) didn’t constrict his creativity post snap. All kinds of wild play and route designs.
@@quinnschroetlin fyi Gillmans mentor is Frances Schmidt. There’s a great book on him. Very interesting guy. Ahead of his time in play design. Did it from the single and double wings. But the condensed formations (compared to today) didn’t constrict his creativity post snap. All kinds of wild play and route designs.
Also Dutch Meyer’s Spread Football book. Dutch got this from his good friend Rusty Russell. All of this in Texas. The short punt pass offense was equivalent of our shotgun pro spread today. Started in sT Louis and then Knute Rockne after forward pass was legalized. Fielding Yost then began to experiment. His pupil Bennie Owen at Oklahoma really made this pass offense his staple in late 1910s. This influenced Russell. And John Heisman was his friend. Heisman coached in Texas at the time. I think Heisman contributed to Russell spreading the field with 5 wide (all 3pt stance) in 1920s. The true grandfather of modern football. Always had a guy in motion for a run. Spread football with power spread concept.
What is the best way to run Toss Sweep toward Bunch?
I like it
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What is the disadvantage of being in compressed set? Sounds like its a win win vs man or zone.
It packs the box so can limit the run game. Harder to run true vertical passing game. Just like anything else. There's a perfect mix to add to the call sheet.
How about 4 wide receivers on one side and then running the ball the other side.
You could if teams don't leave a backside defender.