Travis Henry: More Mothers than Children, Explained
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Starting from the middle, we see Travis Henry moving backwards to make or fake the handoff to the halfback mother, who can pop out a boy right on the spot, or make the turn up and have a girl. The halfback could have a girl behind the line of scrimmage, but only at a 10-yard and $1500/mo. illegal procedure penalty.
On the right we see two mothers stacked on the outside, coming across to the inside. They can take a pass from Travis, but note that both of these mothers intersect with the halfback route. Here you create the possibility for two mothers with a handoff or lateral from the halfback to one of the crossing receivers, or perhaps even three mothers, with a handoff to the blocking mother, who then laterals to the crossing receiver. On the left, we have one mother on a go route for the long bomb from either Travis or a halfback with a good arm.
Finally, Travis has a keeper option, shown in gray, which takes advantage of the blocking receiver and the directional shift to the left. This produces neither a boy nor a girl, but his legs and hands aren’t what they used to be, so this doesn’t get called very often.
