Exotics in Your System
#TXHSFBCHAT May 3, 2023
My favorite description of what football considers “exotic” came from this tweet:
Advantageous Disruptors is an incredible description of what an exotic is and also what your goal is when you use something exotic in your attack.
Are exotics necessary? No, but they are incredibly useful when used to force your opponent to focus on these disruptive schemes. Any time you can make your opponent spend extra time prepping for a different formation, a shift in strength, or a stunt, you are forcing players to think and stretch their knowledge of their rules within their scheme. That is well worth the time and use.
One of my favorite uses of exotics is using a variety of formations to run a small amount of plays. Mixing up the personnel and where they are line up creates stress on the defense and builds mismatches that can be advantageous. An empty series can provide a lot of exotic potential.
Empty can be personneled with a variety of skill positions. Add motions and shifts, and you can open up the attack to be able to pass and run out of it. And we haven’t even talked about what a mobile quarterback adds to the equation!
Take some time to find a few ways that expand the use of your system that you can use a few times each game. To learn how other coaches use exotics, check out last week’s #TXHSFBCHAT.
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