One of the football offensive plays we teach our offensive linemen when we are trying to draw an off sides penalty is called “shutdown”. We call a football play and the count is shutdown.
Shutdown is basically designed to go on 2nd go. Our QB starts his cadence with “set”, “down”, “ready go”.
Our linemen slap their pads on set. When the QB says “down” they stay in the set position.
When the QB says “go” our linemen quickly go down to their normal stance. 90 % of the time we draw the defense off sides.
If the defense does not jump off sides we just run the original football play on the 2nd go.
We get at least 2 first downs a game doing this. The kids love it and they really focus on doing this correct.
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