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Sim Focusedtargeting Ba Offense
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The Sim Focusedtargeting Ba Offense is a 191 play specialty offense spread across 7 formations and 20 sets, which puts it just past the midpoint in size among the game's 26 offensive specialty books. Its identity is balance with a lean toward under center football. Shotgun is the single biggest formation at 50 plays (26%), but Singleback (46 plays, 24%), I Form (38 plays, 20%), Strong I (28 plays, 15%) and Goal Line Offense (9 plays, 5%) together account for 121 plays, roughly 63% of the book. Pistol adds 17 plays across 2 sets, and Hail Mary rounds it out with 3 plays across 2 sets.
This is a book built for a sim style game plan: establish the run from two back sets with calls like FB Dive and 0 1 Trap, then punish safeties who crash with Play Action, Block and Release and Crosser concepts. The personnel range is unusually wide, running from 23 (2 RB, 3 TE, 0 WR) and 22 heavy groups all the way to 11 and 10 personnel spread looks. That lets you dictate defensive substitutions and stress a defense with both jumbo and four wide packages without leaving the playbook.
What you gain over a more Shotgun heavy book is a real downhill run game with 66 plays in I Form and Strong I alone, plus a quick game (Hitch, Slant, Spot, Flat, Drag) and a dedicated Cover 3 Beater concept to keep the chains moving when the box loads up. If you want to win possession battles, control the clock and build your passing game off play action rather than living in empty and trips, the Sim Focusedtargeting Ba Offense gives you the tools.
Scheme Fit
The Sim Focusedtargeting Ba Offense wants a physical roster: a downhill feature back, a fullback who can block and catch in the flat, and at least two tight ends with strong run blocking and enough hands for Block and Release and Crosser routes. Your quarterback does not need elite mobility but should have high short and medium accuracy plus solid play action ratings to win in the Hitch, Slant and Post windows. Pick it if you prefer a clock controlling, run first approach built around personnel mismatches rather than a pass heavy spread attack.
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Strengths
- Deep two back run package: I Form and Strong I combine for 66 plays across 6 sets, so you can pound FB Dive and trap looks and still have enough variety to avoid predictable formation tendencies.
- Personnel flexibility from 23 to 10 lets you force defensive subs, then audible or hot route against the mismatch, such as spreading out a base defense from 11 personnel or running into nickel from 22 and 23.
- Play Action and Block and Release concepts across 121 under center plays make the fake more believable, pulling user controlled linebackers down and opening Crosser and Post windows behind them.
- Singleback's 5 sets (the most of any formation in the book) give you a balanced run and pass home base where motion and the Cover 3 Beater, Hitch and Slant concepts can be called without tipping your hand.
- A dedicated Goal Line Offense set plus heavy 23 personnel gives you a true short yardage and red zone package that lighter spread books lack.
Weaknesses
- Shotgun has 50 plays but only 4 sets, so your spread passing looks are limited in variety and opponents who scout your 10 and 11 personnel can narrow down the likely calls quickly.
- Pistol is thin at 17 plays across 2 sets, which caps how much you can blend shotgun passing with under center style run action from the same alignment.
- The listed concepts are weighted toward quick and intermediate routes (Hitch, Slant, Spot, Flat, Drag), with Post as the main vertical option, so a defense that squeezes the short zones can force you into long, low percentage drives.
- With 35% of the book in two back formations, heavy personnel is a strong tell: opponents can load the box with run commits and nano blitz pressure when they see FB and TE groups come on the field.
- Only 1 Goal Line set and 3 Hail Mary plays means limited disguise at the goal line and almost no desperation variety late in halves.
Usage Tips
Build your base audible package around Singleback, the book's most diverse formation at 5 sets, and use it on 1st and 10 so you can check between run, play action and quick game based on the shell you read.
On 2nd and short or 3rd and 1 to 3, go to I Form or Strong I, call a dive or trap look, and keep a Play Action Block and Release or Crosser concept as your audible for when the defense stacks 8 in the box.
On 3rd and 5 or longer, move to Shotgun in 11 or 10 personnel and lean on the Cover 3 Beater, Slant and Spot concepts, hot routing a Drag or Flat as your checkdown against pressure.
Use Pistol as a change up on 1st down after establishing I Form runs, since its 2 sets let you show run action while keeping the QB in a better throwing position.
Inside the 5 yard line, sub into Goal Line Offense with 23 personnel and alternate power runs with play action to the flat so defenders cannot sit on either.
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