FILM FRIDAY | S2 E14 | Rocket vs. Jet 

Coach I just want to thank you, I'm a player/coach from across the pond and these videos are always so informative and keep bringing me back. Thank you

In reference to the head on which side at 8:17ish, pertaining to a crack back. I coach a down step aim for V of neck cover up block for that very reason. It has been sucsessful. I really enjoyed the video

great video, I'm going to add the Rocket to my Double Wing this season to help with getting outside, and still keep my great wing counter play.

Excellent point about using race over reach. I'll probably use that terminology. I like it.

Great videos coach, i am new to Rocket and Jet but I want to add it to our Playlist. Question: what cadence do you use to keep the timing right, not sure if you want to share that or not but I thought I would ask, if not no big deal. Love your passion for the game, keep the videos coming!

Love the Pa TD. How often do you throw the ball in a game?

I agree with that the both philosophies has its pros and cons. I am a JET-eye master. I think the first rules of the jet is to make sure that your backs understand the mesh point. I teach two jet tracks so that they understand that fakes are more important than getting the ball. I do believe rocket has a very good advantage if your speed it good. We won the states with very little speed but had kids that understood the blocking on the edge. Although rockets fakes are really great with Belly, down and truck. Jet forces the DB and SS to come now. I have not had that same conflict with the rocket motion. They look but they wait and if the ball is not pitched they are still safe. The jet motions when the fake is done correct will freeze the DE, LB, DB, and SS, and sometimes make the FS stay still. This my friend is a play-actions dream. Now I will say that schemes stay the same but player's don't. Every wing-T coach can gain knowledge from whatever someone else is doing within the system. As a Wing-T advocate both rocket and jet will give any defense problems. I prefer the jet because of the stack fake that forces the defense to stair into the backfield for at lest 3 seconds. That can not be replicated with the rocket motion fake. I enjoyed your session. Coach Clark,

In 2015 with children I finally got to do something I'd wanted to for a while: install sidesaddle T with jet/fly series. I was reconstructing the way it was done by Beade with Jaworski at QB at Youngstown State College (now YSU). They were running it before the words "jet" and "fly" were even applied by others to that type of sweep. But the advantage of doing it out of sidesaddle T with kids is that, since the QB faces the motioning back as he comes, you don't need a lot of practice time to be able to snap the ball very closely timed to the motion. The QB, facing a sideline, just has to swing the ball out a little from under the snapper's butt for a reach-take (or fake) handoff by the jetting back. Then he does a skate step to gain a little depth. That's not to say there aren't drawbacks. You don't gain MUCH depth, and you can really rub tight past the QB, so the line on the play side had better not get pushed back. It's also not as deceptive as having a conventionally placed (forward facing) QB do a half turn to hand the ball off, but the saving in practice time is worth it; it's still much MORE deceptive than handing in front in the shotgun jet, and easier executed. Among the many things the jet back can do easily in sidesaddle is run a kind of scissors play that's a slant inside and can be blocked the same as your regular trap play.

Have you heard Matt Canada's "Jizz" play? It's Jet Sweep + IZ away. Last two guys to the jet side reach block no matter what, everyone else blocks IZ. Both plays look 100% identical. Canada became known for it at Pitt (watch the game vs. Penn State!), but I really saw it come in during the 2014 season with Kansas City and De'Anthony Thomas, a super speedster in his Oregon days. I also saw Alabama run it quite a bit in the National Championship Game. Tell me if you want more info on it! Videos are great, keep it up.

Coach why are you blocking on the back side of rocket?

Love the channel Coach, Question You touch upon it a little around the 11:30 min mark but it has to do with the "blocking on the perimeter with the wing"; I'm trying to streamline the process of teaching this blocking in space and make sure I am using consistent coaching points. But my struggle is how do you go about teaching this block? I've liken it to making a tackle in space, so you have to breakdown, buzz the feet, then engage, but it all feels so wishy-washy. What are your teaching points? I've had times where the player just attacked the man while full stride and we were fine, but then there are the times where he completely whiffs and now we're screwed. I would appreciate your input

Jet motion is good to get the defense to slow down when run as a decoy, great for setting up bootlegs and passes or runs opposite especially when the QB is in shotgun or pistol

Little late to the party here. But at 7:37 I think the issue is more with footwork than anything. The X receiver is closed to the crack with the inside foot up, if it was switched with his outside foot up he'd be much quicker at making that 'in' cut towards the point of attack.

We stretched our buc sweep out to where alot of the times the playside guard would pull to kick out/log corner and backside would read off of that. So we didn't rocket or jet.

I have a Jet Series Double Wing this season. 1st year calling plays. What can I do against teams who bring a Safety and OLB up to the line and load the box? I'm coaching 9 and 10 year olds.

When we run rocket we leave the #1 receiver a little wider than you and will have him crack the apex/overhang defender, our wing seals the EMOLOS and we pull our tackle who blocks FDM, he's going to look outside to insode, it will usually be a corner, the rest of the line will Race/Reach toward the play side. If we're in trips with an open field the #2 cracks apex/overhang and the #1 will crack the safety, closed field the #2 comes flatter and helps the play side guard on the play side middle and #1 will still crack the apex/overhang. After running rocket a few times if we get the LBers flowing hard to motion we're set up nice to run slant/belly to the play side or back side and trap either way. We will even run a QB counter off of it with the FB leading if the backside OLB is disciplined and stays home.

Coach what do you think draws a defender out of the box more effective, Rocket or Jet? Or are they both equally effective?

Also when reach blocking reach men's rule should be hookem strecthem or washem

why not pull the guard backside? If he isn't making a block consistently enough (not because he doesn't want to/can't), pull him away from the rocket to create a false read. Then build in a counter that uses the pull so that defenders have to respect it.

how does the weak side iso look like?

Your wr misses the block because he's late as he has his wrong foot forward. If he had his outside foot forward then his first step can be inside which would allow him to get to the defender a step quicker. With his inside foot forward he's taking a stutter step to change the angle of his body rather than a direct step to the defender.

best way I always liked running Rocket is to wait till the man running rocket is between the back and guard to the side he is running the rocket so he is already at full speed and attacking the side he is supposed to be attacking.

I like rocket scheme wise. Jet just does not do it for me. I'm a college student and an assistant for a team a whole lot like yours. They run rocket and buck sweep, and the HC doesn't like jet a whole lot lol

Great video coach, have you thought about doing a series of videos aimed at youth coaches

Love Jet out of Gun especially with a running QB. Love Rocket under center.

The unwritten rule when crack blocking never crack a man on line of scrimmage

So much more comes off of jet we do both

I am a jet guy myself. I do understand why you would like rocket over jet. I use both

I hate seeing that fsu helmet behind u 🤮🤮🤮🤮