How to Coach the Football Trap Running Play: Teaching Offensive Line, Quarterback and Back Details Execute Blocking Scheme

The trap running play is blocking down with the front side guard and tackle, and pulling the back side guard and trap blocking a 3-technique defensive tackle. It is a highly effective quick hitting play that can be run from any number of formations and running back sets. Coach Renner has coached this play for 30 years. He gives you his exact detailed and precise coaching points for each lineman on who to block and how to execute the block. He includes his specific coaching phrases which are highlighted in yellow so you can coach each offensive lineman on the proper steps, body position, path to the defender, head placement, the contact point on the defender, and how to respond to the defender's escape reaction off the block. For the quarterback and running back, his detailed coaching points are provided for the steps to hand off, path to hand off and tracks to run after the hand off for the gun, I and pistol running back sets. Coach Renner shares his 17 years of experience coaching offensive linemen in this trap running play and explains why this play should be run down the midline of the defense. He gives you specific diagrams for the offensive linemen trap blocking assignments versus 4-3, 3-4, 3-3 stack and bear front defensive tackles. If you have outside run plays like outside zone or sweep, or have play action passes, this trap run needs to be part of your run game. It will slow down the defensive tackles pursuit on those outside runs and make them hesitate on your play action passes.