Teaching Pass Routes Drills - Mumme 1999

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TEACHING PASS PATTERNS AND DRILLS

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Thank you very m uch. I t is a pleasure to be here. Everyt ime I 've been to H awa i i , about s ix months la ter I wa ntto come back.

I don ' t know whe the rI was for tunate or unfor tunateto b e the o ffensive co ordinator a t UTEP for four years.'The bes t pa r t of that job wa s tha t you got to comeover here and play the Rair~bowWarriors. Our headcoach wa s smart; he a lways came on W ednesday sow e cou ld spend a l i t t le t ime. I t i s cer ta inly a beaut i fu lplace.

W e have recrui ted over here . I have M ike Fanoga onour s taff. His w ife i s f rom Ha wai i , and he came overwith us . I f you have any good players who want toplay in the SEC, be sure to call us and let us knowabout them.

I n t h e K e n t uc k y o ff e n se , w e h a v e f i v e d r o p - b a ckpasses, w hich w e s to le f rom BYU. W e have added our

wrinkles to them, bu t i t i s bas ical ly the same pass inggame tha t Coach Edwards has been us ing for q ui te awh i le . W e have about 10 other passes that we throw .That includ es our quick-series, screen, naked, a nd play-action passes. W e have four run ning plays. That is ourwhole o ffense .

W e t ry to be good in the l imi ted th ings w e run. Wehave a lo t of se ts tha t w e use. I don ' t kn ow h ow manyw e have, but dur ing the course of the year, w e l imi tthem dow n to abou t 15 set s.

W h a t I th ou gh t I w o ~ ~ l do is take t w o of our bes t passplays and sho w you h ow w e teach them. I 'I I show youhow w e b reak them dow n in our ind ividua l d r il ls .

To sta rt with, I 'II sho w you five plays from our hig hlightf i lm.It w il l g ive you some idea about our offense .

The f i rs t p lay wa s Craig Yeast ca tching a cur l routea g a i n s t F l o r i d a , t h e s e c o n d w a s J a m e s Wa y l a ncatching a crossing route aga ins t LSU, the th i rd wa s

Derr ick Homer running a draw play agains t MissS t a te , t h e f o u r t h w a s a v e r t i c a l r o u t e a g aVanderbi l t , and the las t was a corner route agLSU.

W e p ut th is a t tack in a t the high school level in We used it a t the NA lA leve l a t Iowa Wes leyanran it at the NCAA D ivis ion II a t Valdosta Sta tew e h ave p l ~ tt in a t Kentucky. W e have run the st h i n g a t a l l t h o s e p l a c e s . We a r e g e t t i n g a l opubl ic i ty no w because of Tim Couch. He w i l l f irs t player taken in the NFL draft . He is a great Tim Couch is the fou r th quar terback we 've had o ffense wh o has made Al l -Amer ican .

We teach the sys tem, and the older guys teachyounger guys . We t ry to make footb al l fun for thW e t ry no t to p rac ti ce more than tw o hours , un liti s a scr imma ge or some thing l ike that in the spr

W e t ry to keep our workou ts short . One of the tw e do, which i s p robab ly unusua l, i s tha t w e spend a lo t of time s t re tching. W e do have wardr i ll s . W e t e l l ou r k ids when they come ou t to p rthat there are cer ta in d r i l ls tha t they go to immedFirs t i s a ca tching dr i l l . Everyone wh o catches thgoes to th is dr i l l . W e br in g our centers out to snthe quar terbacks . The dr i l l i s ca l led "noose and up." This i s a quar ter-speed dr i l l . W e se t up thrfour se ts o f t w o dum mies abou t 5 ya rds apa r t osideline. W e have a center an d quarterback4 to 5 yards

f r o m t h e d u m m i e s i n t h e m i d d l e o f t h e m .q u a r t e r b a c k c o a c h i s w i t h t h e q u a r t e rb a c k s .receiver coach is on the s ide w i th th e receiverswa rm up ve ry s low ly in th i s d r i l l fo r abou t 20 mThis i s teaching t i m e for our coaches .

I f you th ink a bout the f i rs t p lay on tha t v ideo,it is CraigYeast . go ing fo r a to uch dow n a ga ins t F lo r ida s i m p l e c u r l . G r a nt ed , C r a i g i s o n e o f t h e f a sreceivers in the SEC, but he is being chased by sof the faste st de fens ive backs in the SEC. He ca


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the cur l route and turned s t ra ight up the f ie ld , a nd s tep drop and throw s fur ther do wn the fie ldeveryone missed the tackle on h im. He ran about 60 prac t ic ing the same type of pass.yards for the touchdown. W e work on tha t very m oveevery day. PAT A N D G O

The quarterback coach g ives the q ~~ ar te rba cksdrop.It could be a three- , f ive- , or seven-step drop. Thequar terbacks take the i r drops . The rece ivers jog a tabout one-quarter speed in be tw een those dumm ies.They se t t le down between the two dummies , c loserto one than the o ther, and noose the i r hands . Thatmeans they g et their hands together. 'The quarterbackt r ies to th ro w the ba l l a t th e number on ' the rece iver 'sje rsey tha t i s away f rom the dummy.It i s not a hardthrow or an over ly sof t throw.It i s a f irm, w arm-upthrow . The receiver nooses the ball , puts i t away, a nd, turns s tra ight upf ie ld . He turns to the s ide wh ere hecaught the ba l l . He jogs abo ut t h e e or fo1.1r s tepsupfield, returns the ball , and gets into another l ine.W e do th is fo r tw o to t h ree minu te s .

N O O S E A N D S E T T L E UP

The next th ing w e do i s wh at w e ca l l "pa t and go ."This is for a l l running backs, wid e receivers, and t igh tends. This i s a hot - route type o f throw. W e ru n thereceivers dow n the numbers. The quarterback pats thebal l and throw sit over the receiver 's outside shoulder.W e wa n t a i r under the ba l l so t ha tit drops down over

the outside shoulder. The quarterback should visualizeth rowing the ba l l i n to a ba r r e l. Wh a t w e a re work ingon i s p inning a defender ins ide and working aw ay f romhim. This d ri l l is 01-~ly bout ha lf speed. We w ork bo ths ides of the f ie ld a t the same t ime, w i th the rece iverswork ing in a circle as they change l ines.

If you add up the t ime, you have about 20 minuW e have go t t en everyone loose and had no pu lmuscles.I made up my ni ind whe n I became a hecoach tha t I would do our warm -ups l ike th is . W e corresponding dr i l ls for th e l ine and defense , bu tis wh at the quarterback, centers , backs, an d receivdo to warm up. 'There are a lo t of benef i t s to th isd o n 't f u m b l e e x c h a n g e s b e t w e e n t h e c e n t e r a

quar terback . W e spend t ime w orking on a l l our sbefore prac t ice . I t i s a good way t o w arm up, andkids likeit bet te r than tha t o ther s tuff .

Af ter tha t , we have some indiv idual per iods forbacks , rece ivers , and quar terbacks . Then we cotogether for what w e ca l l " routes o n a ir." This rea l ly good way t o take a s ingle route and d r i l l i tgo ing to d raw up th is rou t e and then sho w you hw e d r il lit. The f ir s t p a t t e rn w e t each i s ca ll ed"Ycross." Our base set isa pro se t w i th an open backfie l

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yards, and the backs areset t ing be hind the tackles. The f lanker is cal ledZ. Thespl i t end i s ca l led X, and the t igh t en d i s ca l ledY. W ehave a fu l lback to th e t igh t end s ide and a ha l fbacthe spli t end side. The backs are any whe re from4 t o 6yards deep, depending on the play.

As we ge t to the end of the per iod, we p ut a coach on W e rea l ly work hard on fundam enta ls l ike sthe rece ivers and le t them prac t ice the i r re leases and re lease . I ' l l d raw up th is p lay agains t an evwork the dr i l l fu l l speed . The quar terback takes a f ive- wi t h a four-deep secondary.


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On th is play, theX i s going to be the hero. He is theone who is going to score . He is going to run an uproute , jus t as w e worked on in the "pat and go" dr i l l.

On occasion, w e le t h im run the skinny post . The Yreleases inside of the Sam linebacker and over theM ike l inebacker. He is going to run a cross ing route.Whe n he ge t s over the ba l l, he wi l l be abou t13 yardsdeep. As he crosses the hash mark, he w i l l be about17 yards deep. I f he ran out of bounds a t the s idel ine ,h e w o u l d b e22 yards deep. Af ter he crosses the ball ,i f it is zone coverage, h e has the free dom to hook upwhere ver he can find a dead area.

On the back side, the Z starts a good post route. Heturns the route into a post curl, an d a lot of t imes, hetakes it back outside.

We have only one pass protection. W e block man-on-man. We ask the center t o locate the Mike l inebacker.The center, fullback, and halfback are responsible for.the linebackers. The halfback checks the W il l linebackerand releases out on an o ption ro ute off the l inebacker.His patter n is about 4 yards deep. The fullback checksthe Sam l inebacker and runs a swin g route .

'The quarterback takes five long steps and two shortsteps i n his drop. It is a seven-step drop. The differencebetween a f ive- and seven-s tep drop is no t very much.I f you have a weak-a rmed quar te rback ,it doesn ' tmat ter. I 've had plenty of we ak arms throw this p lay.The up rou te i s on ly abou t a 35-yard th row on theouts ide shaulder. The skinny pos t would be throw n onthe ins ide shoulder. That i s where w e are t rying to gowi th the ba l l fi r s t. Wh en the quarte rback h i t s h i s f i f ths tep, he knows wh ere he is going w ith the bal l . He is

go ing over the top to th eX, taking the Y coming acrossthe middle , or h i t t in g the back on the opt ion route . Hehas a 1-2-3 progression on the three-receiver side anda cur l - f la t progress ion on the two-receiver s ide.

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W e take th i s pa t t e rn and p rac t iceit us ing wh a t wcall "routes on air." W e have taken big, tall dumand p laced them on the f i e ld in pos i t ions to in

defensive drops. In15 minutes , we can go throughour routes an d really rep them hard. You can sedummies up any way you l ike , but I 'l l show thema two-d eep and f ive-under zone.

W e tak e five quarterbacks. They each have a rethrow . One quarterback calls the cadence. They ala t the same t im e and go through their reads . quarterback has a d ifferent read. As the balls are thyou should be a ble to te l l where the reads are. Theba l l th rown shou ld be the th row to theX. The last balthrow n should be to the sw ing route to the fullbacw an t the quar te rback i n a t igh t s i tua t ion when thro win g the bal l . That i s why they are a l l in thearea. I t gets t ig ht in the p ocket sometimes.

This is also a great con ditioning drill. W e don't runafte r pra ctice at our p lace. Whe n practice is over, it'This d r i l l i s throw n from about the 40-yard l inein. One every p lay the receiver has to score. In f rom this d r i l l on i n every d r i l l w e have, the recor backs have to score. In this dril l , th e receivers the bal l , nooseit, tuck i t away, and score. Also ycan wa tch a l l your quar terbacks a t once.

ROUTES ON AIR

Sometimesit doesn 't ma t te r how w el l the pa t t e rnrun; you g et f lushed ou t because the protec tion br

001X100 down. W e never give up on a play. W e have jus0 good a play of f the scramble as w e do on the ca


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pat tern . The reason w e do i s because w e work on the genera l ly happens? The coach b low s a whscramble play. everyone goes back to th e huddle . W e don ' t do

Our quarterback drops; if a t the e nd of three secThis pa s t year wa s k ind of a typica l year for us . We he has not found a rece iver, he shuff les and

th r ew fo r 4 ,500 ya rds wi th 40 touchdowns and1 6 After that , he scrambles, and everyone breaks tin tercept ions . About ha l f th e touchdowns d idn 't come pat tern and goes to the scramble routes . off of s tu ff the w ay you draw i t up . You work rea l ly throw ing a touchdown, and the p lay mahard wi t h your quar terbacks ' and rece ivers ' foo twork10 seconds, but w e do n' t give up on any play. Maand then p l an the sc ramble. no one comes open, and he has to thr ow th e ba l

of the end zone, b ut w e never qui t on a play. EveryThe deepes t rece iver to the s ide where the quar terback w e do w e are going to prac t ice to the end scrambles goes deep to th e flag on that side. The deepestrece iver away f rom the scramble goes to the goalpos t I f the receiver ca tches the ba l l, he i s goinbu t not across i t . Everyone e lse i s going to t ry to ge t The defense is going to po p h im, but he outside the throwing hand of the quarterback, whichever score. W e practice scoring. There is a reas

di rec t ion he i s going. Even the backside sw ing pat tern led theSEC in scor ing the las t tw o years . W e prac tspr in ts and t r ies to ge t outs ide the throwing hand o f theit. W e l ike to score .quarterback. The receivers kno w hat if the quarterbackis scrambling left, he has to square his shoulders to throw. Our defensive secondary coach h ad been a tTha t i s why they a re try ing to ge t ou ts ide h i s t h row ing be fo re he came w i th us . Whe nI s h ow e d h i m h o w w ehand. were going to run th is dr i l l, he d idn ' t l ikeit. But af ter a

we ek of doing the dr i l l, he changed h is mind. He fSCRAMBLE DRILL tha t h is defens ive backs s tayed in coverage w he n

bal l s ta r ted to move. W e are n ot grea t on defensKentucky. We are jus t no w get t ing young playersare going to be good. W e are going to be g rea t s

@&day, bu t we're not there yet . One thing w e don' t g ive up the cheap touchdow n. Ho w many t imes y o u s e e n a p l a y w h e r e t h e q u a r t er b a c k s e ehopeless ly down? Al l of a sudden, he breaks f reethrows an end-over-end pass to a receiver standwi de open in the end zone . W e don ' t g ive up thtypes of p lays. We prac t ice tha t a l l the t ime.

On Thursday we do th is dr i l l. W e take one quar terdown th e f ield on the sideline. W e have one quarter

The qua r te rback has to keep the ba l l up in th rowin g p l ay ing the co n ta in end a nd rush ing uppo sit ion al l the t im e tha t he is shuffl ing an d tryin g to quarterback snaps the ball. The coach standfind a receiver. He has both hands on the ball and never and gives directions. The qu arterback takiqdropsit d o w n .If he keeps th e ba ll up, he can get r id of takes his drop. He hitches up and shuffles in hit. If he drop s the b all down , he can' t. The offensive The coach gives him a command, and he scral ine b locks a l l t he w ay t o the wh i s tl e . of the pocket. He has to duck around the co ntain end

dips inside to get by the end, then comes up, squaresTh ink ab ou t p rac tices y ou've seen. The off en se is shoulders, and throws to the quarterback on thrunning a pass shel l agains t the number1 defense . We d o it three or four t imes with each guy left , aThe offens e ca l l s a p lay, an d the defense doesa g r e at t h e n w e d oit right.j o b a n d c o v e r s t h e p a t t e r n l ik e a b l a n ke t . W h a t


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1SCRAMBLE FOR QUARTERBACK stunts we expect to see. A ll th e receivers know tha tthey are out because there are no linebackers. BeforeThe quarterback the play tells the rest of thequarterbacks which wa y he is going to scramble. Hedoesn't t ell the receivers.

The quarterback takes t he snap, sets up in the pocket,

QB QB and scrambles. All the quarterbacks fol lo w him. Thereceivers go to their scramble routes. The quarterbackscrambles right. We are going to th row five balls. All the\JJ balls have to be perfect and have to be caught. Theoffensive linemen have finished their lit tle deal and arewatching. I f we catch all five balls, they clap one time i

We do th is drill every Thursday during the season and unison. If a ll five balls are n ot caught, the offensiveevery night in two-a-days. After the second practice, we linemen ride the receivers and quarterbacks out.bring our ql~arterbacksn for about 30 minutes of individualdrills. This is one of those dl-ills. TE AM SCRAMBLE DRILL

Our Thursday, practice goes something like this. After ourwarm-up drills, we spend about 20 to 25 minutes onspecial teams. At the end of practice, w e have a big teamperiod where w e go over team game plan. It s with helmetand shorts against the scoutteam. They are barely moving.They just lin e up. We run our entir e game script, whichconsists of 85 plays. We script the whole game. We aregoing to run i t perfectly. If they don't doit right, we do itover. We really don't know how long this period is goingto take. Theoretically, we can run those 85 plays in 40minutes. We do that now. The fir st year, this period tookabout tw o hours because they didn't do i t perfectly.

Between the special period and the game plan period isa five-minute team scramble dril l. This drill is a moralebooster for our offensive line. Those guys work theirbutts off. Basically, wh at we te ll them is that in ouroffense, you are going to have a street figh t about 50

times a game. They are going to have to fight a guywho is faster and stronger than they are. He may notbe as big as they are, but he is madder than they are.They can't lose any of th e fights . They have to win a ll50 of them. They have a tough job.

We line up our team offense on the 30-yard line goingin. The star ting quarterback takes the snap. The otherfour quarterbacks are standing to the side. The linecoach takes the second 0 line and lines them up asdefensive linemen. They jog through the defensive line

We do a "bandit" drill. This is a good thing and can beput into any offense. We mark the practice fieldincluding th e coaches' box. We get our offensive subson one side and the defensive s ~ b s n the other. A

manager spots the ball each time, movingit

from hashto middle to hash mark, all the way down the field.We are going to run 10 plays as fast as w e can. Thereis no huddle for the offense or defense. The defensecan strip the ball from the receivers if they can getclose enough. Otherwise, it just touches football. Wedo this all the way down the field. In a 15-minuteperiod, you can get about three sets done. In our tw o-a-days, we go number 1 s against number 1 s twice andthe number 2s once. It is a good way to train thequarterback to see if he can run the offense quickly.


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