As we mentioned at the outset of this series, Coach Drinkwitz hangs his playcaller’s hat on an aggressive downhill running game based on Inside and Outside Zone. It makes sense, then, that bootleg passes are another significant element of his playbook. Bootlegs are playaction pases that take advantage of a defense flowing in the direction of the run fake, attacking the backside of that faked play. I had more to say about bootlegs in this in-season piece.
Let’s look at several of the bootleg plays Drinkwitz employed last year at Appalachian State.
I’ve arranged Drink’s bootleg passes into two categories, Nakeds and Waggles.