How to Run a Football Offense: Dive

Series Summary

Football is the most brutal of all sports. Playing football involves many different choices like playing offense or defense, wide receiver or safety and running back or linebacker. Making that smash tackle on defense, completing a game-winning pass on offense, stopping a tough defender, or intercepting the ball at a crucial point in the game: all of these will earn you the respect and admiration of teammates and fans alike. But it’s impossible to play the game of football like a superstar if you haven’t put in the hard work behind the scenes. A superstar football player spends as much time in the film room as the on the field. In this free video series on how to play football, let a former college player explain the basics of this brutal sport. Sit back and learn about the many different defenses football teams run like the 5-2, 4-3, 4-4 and goal line. He discusses the cover 2 on defense, the spread offense and the dive. Finally, he talks about what it takes to play each position like running back, safety and wide receiver along with how to punt, throw, catch and kick a football. Live the dream and become an all-pro.

Video Transcript

"Hey, it's Coach Rudy. Four years big tip football, know some stuff, don't know everything, but I do know about the Dive. So, before we get into the, a lot of the passing stuff and the defensive stuff, let's talk about good old fashioned smash mouth football. In between the tackles is where the game is, pretty much, decided every week. So, as you, there's a couple ways to really run it. There's, with the tailback through the 2 hole, or with the fullback through the 1 hole. Strong side, split end on the strong right side. Tight end, tackle, guard, center, guard, tackle, flanker. The most important thing here is the blockings game. Typical situations are center cuts, or drives, or tries to reach depending on the defensives game and the guard does the same. So, it's a two on one out of the hole. It's a gap, it's kind of, if they're playing gap defense, it's two on one, get him out of the hole, route him out, quick snap, ready, set. Or ready, set, go, really quickly and get the fullback just blasting through. If you want to develop it and go on a longer cadence, then it's a chop and the fullback's over the top. So, it just depends on what your needs are. Second and three, second and four, second and five are typical situations. Third and short, fourth and one. Now, if I were you, I wouldn't run it on fourth and one. What I would do is I'd fake to the fullback, have the tight end step down to reach and then release and pop it over the linebacker's head who'll be coming in in order to try and defend on the Dive. Same thing the other way. Fake it to the tailback, tight end steps on the reach block, releases, pop, pass over the top of the linebacker, that's six, we're going in, good, good, gone, gone."