BEATING THE BLITZ WITH ROCKET TOSS

ROCKET TOSS: (Click on Diagram to enlarge)

When the defense starts to blitz their inside LBs in order to create chaos in your triple option scheme, make them pay the price by using the Toss play. Rocket Toss is our toss play to the right side (Laser Toss is to the left). The blocking scheme is simple. The O-Line simply reach blocks. Any defender from the offensive Center to the backside is irrelevant and therefore is not blocked. This is due to this play being an extremely quick hitting play to the perimeter. The ball carrier will not even get the ball until he is in the B-gap to the play side! It is impossible for any of these “backside” defenders to have any effect on the play. Meanwhile, the play side A-back arcs out to the outside backer. The blocking theory behind this play is for everyone to seal their opponent to the inside. That will leave the ball carrier with a nice alley on the sideline.