Some years ago when I coached at Barstow HS, the head coach, a former Nebraska Nose Tackle by the name of Dionicio Monarrez, would like us to install some kind of trick play into our offensive game plan each week. He liked to surprise our opponents at key times during a game. He called the trick plays: “momentum changers”.
One week our opponent was Cajon HS and while breaking down film of them, I saw that they favored a Cover 1 defense in short yardage situations and I wondered what the Free Safety would do if we went empty from a 2×2 formation by motioning our single setback out of the backfield (below). Would he stay in the middle of the field or would he pick up the RB?
Cajon Special as the play would be called was a simple deception. The deception was that the inside receiver to the left side was actually an offensive Tackle while our Tight End replaced him on the right side of the offensive line. The OT was positioned on the LOS, so he was covered by the X-receiver and was not an eligible receiver.
