Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Post by Coach Charger on Sept 29, 2005 7:13:30 GMT
I am looking into a no huddle spread option offense. I have never had any experience with the no huddle. Does anyone have any suggestions on signals or calls? What types of dummy calls do you use? How do you keep it simple for the kids but enough to keep the defense guessing?
Coach Charger,
Although I have never been allowed to run it (I'm an Assistant), I love the No Huddle Offense. Here are my suggestions, Categorize everything. For example, Formations are fruits and vegetables, plays are numbers, stap counts are letters or automatic. Grape, 335 could easily mean Pro TE right, split backs, running FB trap to the left.
Add dummy calls by simply saying something that means nothing at all. For example Grape Juice or Strawberry Jam, Juice and Jam may not mean anything at all but its another word for a defense to worry about.
Another suggestion, add automatics. For example Avacado 335. In this, Avacado does not represent a formation but rather a formation and play. Perhaps it means line up in the same formation as the last play and run a HB toss to the field. Defense would think 335 means FB trap left and now be caught in their tracks.
Be creative and think things through. Don't worry about defenses figuring things out especially if you are at the HS level, players do not catch on unless you allow them too. Also with dummy calls and automatics you should be capable of keeping DC and coaches confused.
Final word of advise...Do NOT be NH exclusive. You will want your team to huddle, they need to "reboot" from time to time, plus it helps work the clock even more.
We play a "no huddle" spread team this weekend... It is a MAJOR PAIN to deal with right now because it's so "organic".
I have the playbook for their offense (former assistant is now on our staff) - I've got tons of tape on them....
But HOW they run it is another story.
They never huddle, the just meander on the field after a play...
Head Coach tells them the formation
Coordinator in the box gives them a presnap read (how the defense is aligned) and relays the info to HC for play selection.
Hey calls a play "8827"
In those numbers somewhere is the play.....
"27 toss"
They also have 'check-with-me' plays to they may want to run outside zone to the 1 tech or something they'll just call "8827" then a "green"(right) or "blue" (left) depending on where they want to run.
we have a few audibles memorized for the kids to take as keys presnap. In the past, we've tried numbering our players 1-9 and then YELL OUT OUR numbers presnap, to make a big cluster to provide a little confusion.....