Wing-T Speed Sweep: Timing & Blocking Rules for Game-Breaking Runs - Sonny Spurlock

Create big play opportunities by mastering the Wing-T Speed Sweep. Learn essential timing and blocking rules to create explosive runs.

In the video below, Sonny Spurlock--retired high school Head Coach--shows game clips and goes through blocking and timing rules that he utilizied.

The segment is from his Speed & Sweep Toss portion of the 12 lesson Multiple Delaware Wing-T System which is available on Glazier Drive.

Coach Spurlock's philosophy is "It's not what you play, it's how you play."  

A few of the rules:

The halfback, tight end, and play-side tackle will reach block.

The guard pulls and runs the alley.  Who he ends up with depends on who shows up--usually a linebacker or the safety.

They gut with the center--on away.

On the speed sweep, they don't block a B gap player.  It is a foot race.  For this to work, on the exchange, the timing has to be correct, the exchange has to be correct, and the halfback has to be bubble when he gets the ball--they drill that in practice.

Fullback is behind the quarterback.  He's running gut or trap.  His job is to clear, get down field, and find the free safety to block.  The idea is to hold the linebacker with the fake.

Quarterback holds his hand out to fake to the fullback.  He is then responsible for looking the ball into the halfback's belly.  If the quarterback misses the exchange for any reason, he follows the halfback and tries to get where he is going.