Changes Coming in 2009 at ALL Levels of Football - Get Ready!

Hello Innovative Football Coach, Player or Fan,

For many of us its the start of the 2009 football season training camp, and it's also an exciting time to be a football coach at this point in the history of our great game! Rapidly, football is becoming incredibly dynamic and new concepts are being implemented at all levels of play.

Over the last two years and thanks to the football players, coaches and referees operating in A-11 games, they've showed the world that a super spread offensive system utilizing wild maximum formations and concepts are sound, safer and effective. A-11 teams have sprung open a geyser of football play-making options going from a good 36 possibilities at the snap in the valuable traditional football system we know, to an incredible 16,636 possibilities when the respectable but outdated jersey-numbering requirement rule is no longer relevant, as per the great article by Scientific American Magazine in 2008.

The transition of the A-11 Offense for 2009 will contribute to this momentum changing football. Already during this NFL preseason, the Tennessee Titans executed a Fake Statue of Liberty Punt using an orbit motion by the left wing back.

To date, 18 NFL teams and many teams throughout the NCAA, high school and youth levels secured A-11 Offense DVD training materials, manuals & video play packages this off-season. That's good news for their teams and exciting for the kids, players, coaches and fans watching their games in 2009.

The hottest NFL trend is for every team to have a Wildcat package. The Dolphins wanted to make their Wildcat more dynamic, so they drafted multiple skill set QB Pat White. The Vikings believe they have a devastating Wildcat combo with Adrian Peterson and new draft pick from Florida, Percy Harvin. The addition of Michael Vick gives the Eagles a Wildcat capability but also positions the Eagles to have a left-handed & right-handed duo of mobile QB's in the backfield during the game at the same time in various A-11 sets.

*When was the last time an NFL team built their game plan to have two quarterbacks in the game at the same time in the backfield operating out of a dual shotgun or staggered set?

Also of note, at the NFL and NCAA levels, offensive players CAN CUT BLOCK defenders outside of the Tackle Box and/or down field, this makes that job much easier for more athletic but smaller QB's or RB types who must take on LB's or DE's at the LOS.

A-11 teams have already proven for two years nationwide that A-11 teams can win WITHOUT being able to Cut Block down field, but when you add Cut Blocking into the mix, the odds for super-spread offensive success take a quantum leap forward. Now those solid concepts will cement themselves at the highest levels of the game.

Across football, we are seeing players and teams embrace the concept of players breaking out of traditional position specific molds and taking on a more dynamic role within ultra-spread offenses. This change is pushing football's evolution and it’s going to unfold before our eyes in 2009!

One former NFL head coach now taking a year off, has been studying every aspect of the A-11 in order to prepare himself for the next wave of the evolution in the game. He has made it clear that he totally understands exactly where the game is headed, faster, more spread out and utilizing hybrid athletes who can block, run, catch, throw and score in as many positions on the field as possible.

The ANCHOR position has now officially become a brand new Position in Football.

At Piedmont we now have an Anchors coach. Anchors wear jersey number #50 - 79, but they are Game Breaker athletes, normally spread out wide beyond the hash marks, and they have the ability to score from anywhere on the field once the football is in their hands.

Until the outdated jersey-numbering requirment is abolished, Anchors will operate simply by wearing jersey's numbered #50 - 79. After the antiquated jersey numbering requirement rule is done away with, offensive players will simply be eligible by Formation on any given play, as many A-11 teams and referees have proven to be workable and true for two years, etc.

For all of you hardworking and innovative coaches, keep pushing yourselves to come up with new ideas to move the game into its next phase. It is incredible how many coaches across the country are enthusiastically sharing their excellent ideas and innovative concepts with our network of A-11 coaches.

One such example comes from an A-11 2nd year coach in the state of Washington. His new A-11 playbook for 2009 is a super-spread system with a brutal downhill running attack. It was an honor to receive his playbook and have a chance to study his marvelous system. Remember, the A-11 is a Great rushing offense because everybody is super-spread out, so don't let the "so-called experts" brainwash you that your team can't run the ball in the A-11. They're fools.

These wide-open evolutionary points of light are coming together to make our great game's super-spread out changes unstoppable.

Best of luck to everyone this season as many of us get ready for the 2009 battles ahead.