![]() ![]() The College Football Hall of Fame credits Bill Yeoman with the invention of the veer formation. The pitch man must maintain proper spacing from the quarterback to ensure that the quarterback can make an effective pitch that can ensure more yardage. The dive back must remember to not take the football from the quarterback, rather the quarterback must give it to him. The offense relies on the quarterback making the proper reads, turning up the field (if he decides to keep the ball) and gaining yardage. His job, depending on the formation, would be to block the force player who is responsible for the flat on the side being attacked. The fourth player in the split-veer would be a wide receiver or tight end. This entire action takes no longer than a few seconds. He attempts to maintain proper pitch relation to the quarterback, technically a few yards outside the quarterback and moving laterally so that the quarterback may pitch the ball as he goes down the field. If the quarterback keeps the ball, he attempts to cut up the field with the opposite side halfback, who has been running right towards the dive back's original position. This is just one part of the four-part option. This is where the name of the offense, the veer, comes from. The quarterback, in his open stance, is reading the man being veered, in order to decide whether to "pull" the ball from the dive back and go through the hole, or to give the dive back the ball and have him go through the hole. The dive back explodes forward, puts his arms around the ball that is being extended, but does not take it. The defender is being forced to choose between tackling the dive back or the quarterback. This unblocked defender is being Read by the QB. This is where the idea of the Veer begins to take shape: the offensive line has left one man unblocked here, most likely a defensive tackle (although it can be a linebacker) or even a defensive end. The split-back halfback on the right side, who in this situation is the "dive back", goes forward into the line to where the quarterback is and meets in an area called the "mesh point". He then does what is called "opening up": the quarterback goes from his two-point stance, facing forward, and takes (in this situation) his opposite side, left foot and pivots ninety degrees on his right foot, extending the ball toward the sideline he is facing. ![]() A typical play proceeds as follows (we will assume that this is an "outside veer" going to the right side out of the split-back formation): the quarterback takes the snap. The QB makes reads on defensive players and then distributes the ball according to the defensive reaction to the offense. It is designed as a three-back attack with one player taking a dive course, one taking a pitch course and another being a lead blocker on the perimeter of the offensive formation. The Veer option is generally regarded as a " triple option". The other back, #30, is his pitch option. ![]() In this picture, the quarterback, #8, is meeting his dive back. Morris Knolls High School of New Jersey running a typical veer play. ![]()
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