Ace Double Wing

Ace Double Wing is the heaviest personnel look in the Singleback family, running 23 personnel (two backs, three tight ends) out of a single high back alignment. Instead of splitting receivers wide like Singleback Wide or Bunch sets, Ace Double Wing tucks two wing players just off the tackles or tight end alignment, creating a compressed nine man box look with the halfback alone behind center. That alignment is the entire point: defenses have to declare run fits before the snap because there is no vertical field stretch forcing them out of a two high shell. The Gadget tag shows up in the play art with Escort blocking schemes and QB Boot variations that let you attack the edge off of run action.

The run game here is the deepest part of the set. HB Power O, HB Counter Wk, Weak Toss, Escort Duo, Escort Zone Toss, HB Stretch, Wide Zone Lt, HB Zone Wk, and HB Dive give you gap scheme, wide zone, and toss concepts all from the same look, which is exactly what you want when you are trying to force an opponent to commit user defenders to the box. The wings act as extra pullers and lead blockers on the Escort plays, so you get numbers at the point of attack against base 3-4 and 4-3 fronts that have not shifted.

The pass game is built almost entirely off run action. Escort PA Sprint Rt, PA Ctr Waggle, PA Boot Lt, PA TE Cross, PA HB Wheel, Fake HB Zone QB Boot Lt, and Fake HB Zone QB Bootlt all sell the run first, then move the quarterback off the launch point. That matters against user defenders because a plant and drive read on a compressed formation is much harder when the pocket is rolling. TE Corners, TE Shake, HB Smash, Bench, and Stick give you the concept passing when you need it, and because the wings are covered by linebackers and safeties more often than corners, you can isolate a mismatch tight end on a corner route or a wheel against a slower man defender.