Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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We are an I Form ISV/OSV/Midline team. Our FB's path on ISV is the outside leg of the Guard. I was watching the Georgia Military video with Bert Williams, and he explained that they have the FB take his path to the outside leg of the first defender. For instance, if there is a 1 tech, he is off the outside leg of the 1 tech. He hugs the double team on his path. The reason is so the FB is as far from the Dive Read as possible and it forces the Dive key to close harder.
Does anyone else do this? I believe Navy may also run it this way.
Navy runs the ball in the A gap, often tight to the center's scoop block.
We emphacize this, but naturally we want our fullback to get 3.5+ yards as fast as possible. I tell the fullback to head northbound and get those 3.5+ yards. You can't lose if you secure the ball and continually get 3.5+ yards every play. That's one of the three major points of my offensive philosophy: PROTECT THE BALL.
Offensive Philosophy- "Run the ball and pass when necessary."
WE WILL WIN IF WE ACCOMPLISH THE FOLLOWING:
1. Win the battle in the trenches.
2. Protect the football.
3. Complete passes over the top of the secondary.
I hope this helped you Coach.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
If you run the ISV to a 1 tech as your aiming point or to the A gap at all, then it is not a veer. It is a dive!
The very name VEER is the key word here and a dive angle and a veer angle are two entirely different angles of attack. If they stack the Mike up tight in a 10 tech right off the noses butt and put the BSDT in a 1 tech, and then you try to run the A gap? IMO, you won't get your 3.5 yds per carry very consistently. Just my opinon as always.
My phiolosophy on what brings more wins:
1. TO HAVE MORE SUPERIOR PLAYERS THAN YOUR COMPETITON!
2. TO HAVE THE BEST SPECIAL FORCES IN YOUR LEAGUE!
3. TO AVOID TURNOVERS AT ALL COSTS!
4. TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR QB, YOUR PUNTER, AND YOUR PLACE
KICKER ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYERS, AND IN THAT ORDER, ON YOUR ROSTER!
5. TO INSURE THAT THE ENTIRE TEAM, STAFF ARE TOTALLY DEDICATED TO THE NUMBER ONE GOAL
OF WINNING!
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
We are going to run inside and outside veer from the I next year for the first time. We do not see many 1 techniques. We do see a lot of head up players in 4-4 or 5-3 alignments.
We will always run outside veer when the D gives us a 4 front (2 tech), and can run OV vs odd fronts as well.
My question is for inside veer vs a 5-3 or 5-2. It seems like it is standard to have the FB aim for the outside hip of the guard. If we are almost always running IV to a 0 tech, should we have the FB aim for the middle or inside hip of the guard to get as far away from the dive read as possible? It seems like this might make the read easier, and then the FB could just be taught to bend it back playside a little after the mesh?
I personally have never even heard of running the inside veer to a 0 tech. If you run the A gap, as I have stated previously it is not A VEER option AT ALL. The very name of the play INSIDE VEER indicates the ball take a VEER path, not a dive path. What you describe then becomes what we call a BEND, not a veer and we only BEND away from the TE. Can you tell me what the big trend to call an old established play by it's name, then run it in an entirely different manner is all about? Not looking for any argument, just wondering why?
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Coach Campbell - so are you saying his path bends back to the inside as the OG and C combo the nose?
Coach Easton - I am calling it inside veer because we are considering tweaking the inside veer a little bit (inside hip of guard) to whatever you want to call it (if we decide to tweak it). The dive and pitch reads would be the same. The blocking would be the same.
We will call it 13/14 option. I am just using IV as a description of the type of option we are running, as it is not midline, and I do not know the other terms.
Anyway, what kind of option would you run at a 0 tech. I thought the inside veer was created to combat the 5-2 okie defense?
I know not of any option you run at a zero tech. That was my point. The Houston Veer was designed to beat Bud Wilkinson's 52 Okie just as you say, at least that was what I was always told. The REAL reason the option was invented was to take advantage of the double team by two smaller offensive linemen against a single bigger defensive lineman has always been my understanding. At any rate, good luck with what you are doing no matter what you may choose to call it. Just as Ara Parashegan's "OKIE DOG PINCH"
was invented to defense the WISHBONE (which it did very successfully!) the VEER was designed to whip the OKIE.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Post by Coach Campbell on Apr 16, 2006 7:56:45 GMT
Inside Veer reads the 5 technique so vs an odd front you should get a combo to a 5-2 scheme by the guard and center to the backside linebacker. The full back would run off the butt of the guard and off the inside release of the offensive tackle to playside linebacker. Coach CAmpbell
THATS IT, EXACTLY!!! THAT'S THE WAY IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN RUN, WHY TINKER WITH IT? COULDN'T BE ANY MORE SIMPLE, IMO. Just teach them them the correct way to block it: 1. who to block! 2. how to make the block!
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
I am totally with you guys on the play - I may not have done a good job of explaining what I meant to say. Anyway... Another coach nearby ran the IV this year differently than he normally does - with the dive back aiming for the inside hip of guard, but they taught the FB to cut back playside after the mesh. Their thinking was that they would get further away from the 4 or 5 technique they were reading on the dive. Everything else went traditionally. Would this not make it easier to read?