Here's an email I got from a youth coach who says he has had success with the waggle pass.
I have been reading your tips and look forward to getting and reading your books.
I believe your comments are generally right on, except that the most successful single pass play I have ever used or seen used is the waggle pass.
I have coached youth ball for 38 seasons now, either at the 12/12 12/13 or 13/14 level and this is the most effective play I've run.
My method, however, is to run it away from the TEA and to the split receiver. We drag the TEA across the middle thru the hells of the LBs and he gradually gains depth to a depth of about 9-12 yards. We try to get him to settle in the open, soft area the defense gives up in the center of their zone defense. No one ever covers the TEA. But then, hardly no one ever covers the FB in the flat, either.
We run the SE on a corner route - usually a deep "V" route rater than a true post-corner - this is easier to teach with usually the same result.
I haven't experienced much trouble with pulling both OGs, with the lead guard taking a deep pull path to log the playside DE. The backside OG becomes the personal protector for the QB.
The best coaching point I can add is that the QB must get his head around quickly after the sweep fake to read the block on the playside DE. We also advise him to listen for a collision to his backside which
would indicate that the DE did not bite on the sweep fake and the lead OG collisioned with him immediately.
In that scenario, he must pull up and step inside the block of the DE, which must now become a kick out.
I know that this may be somewhat more difficult for coaches at the 9/10 level (and surely below that), but I have found that if you actually work on things and stress those things in practice, you will get
reasonably positive results.
[Note. I had added the waggle pass to my list of good youth plays about two weeks before I got this letter. Mr. Robinson apparently missed it.