A-11 Offense.. the future of football ?

[RickFromFowler]

Welcome To The Online Home Of The New A-11 Offense

The A-11 features up to all eleven players wearing an eligible receiver jersey number, either 1-49 or 80- 99, with two quarterbacks in the shotgun formation at 7 yards, and with nobody under center - thereby meeting the criteria for a scrimmage kick formation. In “base” sets, the A-11 Offense has a center, and a tight end on each side, and three wide receivers to the right, and left respectively. By spreading the potentially eligible receivers across the entire field, it forces the defense to account for every possible receiver on each play. Of course, on any given play, only six of those players can go downfield to catch a pass, and the five “covered” players remain ineligible to catch a downfield pass on that particular play.

From Rivals High - A-11 offense could be the future of football

Bryan said coaches from 35 to 40 Division I-A schools, and from every conference, have contacted him and Humphries looking for information on the offense. Apparently, the college coaches are quick studies.

Humphries said he saw San Jose State run multiple A-11 plays last season against Stanford. Florida ran an offensive play recalling the A-11 against LSU. And Rutgers and the NFL's San Francisco 49ers ran punt plays containing aspects of Piedmont's offense.

[joeking1978]

lol... this just seems like football blasphemy to me... and here I thought I wasn't conservative because I thought the 3yds and a cloud of dust football that represented Michigan with Bo and Lloyd the past 30 yrs was outdated and the spread is a refreshing twist...

but that almost seems chaotic!

[HailtotheVictors20]

it looks like street football.

[Sommy]

Yeah, I've seen this video before -- pretty interesting, seemed to work well for the team until the field shortened up, like pretty much every spread formation ever. How are you supposed to determine which receivers are eligible, though, if everyone on the field has an eligible receiver number? Doesn't really make sense to me.

[msu DW]

How are you supposed to determine which receivers are eligible, though, if everyone on the field has an eligible receiver number? Doesn't really make sense to me.

Thats part of the idea behind it. The defense won't know which players will actually head downfield. When the play starts the 6 players that head downfield become the eligible receivers and the other 5 become ineligible (for that play only). Its pretty much a trick play offense in a way.

[wallyfairway]

no thanks, that looks like something JLS would have embraced.

[MSUJSCHOOL04]

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[cmuspmed]

Has anyone heard of this? I recently ran across this article (Link) about this offense on espn.com several weeks ago. Didn't think anything of it other than some team in Cali is using it. Then last week during preparation for our 4-way scrimmage, there were rumors of one of the schools attending (Galesburg-Augusta) was installing it. They ended up not using it at the scrimmage (likely to not tip their hand for their week 1 opponent). But this got me thinking. How many of you have heard of it? Seen it? What are your thoughts on it? Will this really "revolutionize" football as many other articles I have read on it suggest?

[RickFromFowler]

Has anyone heard of this? I recently ran across this article (Link) about this offense on espn.com several weeks ago. Didn't think anything of it other than some team in Cali is using it. Then last week during preparation for our 4-way scrimmage, there were rumors of one of the schools attending (Galesburg-Augusta) was installing it. They ended up not using it at the scrimmage (likely to not tip their hand for their week 1 opponent). But this got me thinking. How many of you have heard of it? Seen it? What are your thoughts on it? Will this really "revolutionize" football as many other articles I have read on it suggest?

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[CoPa Native]

Im no X and O expert but it seems to me that running a standard zone would be the way to defend it. With a mini o line the shotgunned QBs better get the ball out quick.

[cmuspmed]

Im no X and O expert but it seems to me that running a standard zone would be the way to defend it. With a mini o line the shotgunned QBs better get the ball out quick.

The whole point is confusion. You will have plays where the guard is eligible and the split out WRs aren't. Or 3 WRs on one side and 1 on the other are. And you have 1 second to determine who is eligible and who isn't. Plus, there are times when the guard runs downfield and you think he is running a route when he is actually run blocking you. It's the same principle as the Wing-T offense in that the goal is to confuse the defense in order to succeed.