The Beast Offense in the best Power Wing Beast Offense Playbook for Youth Football by Coach Parker really began in 1994 when I started coaching for Plano Sports Authority in Plano / Dallas Texas. In 2008 before the Beast Offense was popular, I started writing about the Beast Offense, Beast Formations and Beast Plays on this youth football coaching blog. Before 2008, I called The Beast Offense, Loud Rowdy Monkey for Left Right and Middle.
Beast Offense AKA Yale Single Wing
Loud, Rowdy, Monkey or Beast Left, Right, & Middle
I called the Beast Offense, Loud, Rowdy, Monkey, for more than a decade because I did not know what the formation was “officially” called. I originally found the Beast Formation in Playmaker Software back in 1994 in the software’s old football formation and play section; single wing area. Heck, I barely knew what a SW formation was at the time.
I started experimenting with the crazy looking formation on the software package’s simulator. I had an Ah Ha moment and I found my simple Offense for my 8 year old football team that was struggling with the Power I that I was installing. We wound up winning Coaching Staff of the Year that year almost making it into the league’s Super Bowl against the two top returning teams; barley losing to both in the regular season then playoffs.
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Beast Offense, What?
Around 2008 give or take a year, as I am writing this youth football blog and researching football info, I read about my crazy Loud Rowdy Monkey formation on Hugh Wyatt’s and Jack Gregory’s social media / forum or website posts. They called the formation The Beast. That is the first time, I saw anyone else writing or talking or running the Beast, except for a few opponents in the Denver area that started copying my crazy Loud, Rowdy, Monkey formation.
Below is the 2006 Denver metro; 8u Arvada Pirates Youth Football Team in Beast.
I was very excited that other more popular coaches also thought my little unknown offense was pretty good too. At that point, my Loud, Rowdy, Monkey was renamed into the what I thought at the time was the official name; Beast. I always still call it the Loud, Rowdy, Monkey, Beast and why the Power Wing Beast Logo is an Ape with Wings.
Beast is Yale Single Wing?
Then in 2011, I bought the Tom Flores book, Coaching Football book and they had a diagram of the Beast and called the formation, Yale Single Wing. Now, another name for this crazy unknown but unstoppable youth football formation and offense.
As I kept wiring this blog, I kept learning about others running the Beast. I joined DumCoach forum back around 2015, and then learned that Steve Calande, a High School coach, actually coined the name Beast from his Beast Offense Playbook back around 2002. Around 2018 on Twitter, I learned from Bruce Eien another HS Coach who was running a version of the Beast that Coach Calande wrote a published article on the Beast around 2002 and sold a handwritten playbook too. Since I was not a professional Coach or HS coach, I never saw these materials. But the interesting thing about the 3 of us was that we were all on Delphi Single Wing forums back in the day around 1994. Crazy small world to all run and write about some version of the Beast Yale Single Wing.
Power Wing Beast Offense Playbook
In July 2017, I published my digital eBook / playbook on the Beast Offense called the Power Wing Beast Offense Youth Football Playbook. Many of the Beast plays, were already published on this blog / YouTube and read by many youth coaches across the country asking for an official Beast Offense playbook.
My version of the Beast Offense differed from others at the time in that I also run the Beast Tight or Yale Single Wing formation and also added a Beast Wide or Worm and Beast Double Wide or Beast Spread / Jumbo formations along with the Middle Monkey formation which the NFL Eagles use a similar version for their QB sneak play. There is also a formation called FAT or Cake which is a 2 Back Beast formation; B2B. These main 5 Beast Offense formation variations make up my Beast Offense in the Power Wing Beast Offense Playbook.
Now the Beast Offense has gotten so poplar everyone is writing about it and claiming who made it popular. All I know is that back in 2008 when I started writing about the Beast, posting YouTube videos, and even after I published the Power Wing Beast Offense you had to search out and by luck find anything on the Beast Offense or Yale Single Wing formation. So ya, I’ll take some credit for the popularity too.
Do you run the Beast or a version of it? What are your thoughts on the Offense / Formation. Have your youth football teams had the Beast run against you? How did you do?
I would love to hear your thought and comments. Please leave a comment below or shoot me an email. I love talking football.
Thanks,
Coach Parker
DFW / Texas
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