Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Coach We do not run the 4-3 but do run a defense that has two safties like you guys. We switch up our force players (pitch guys) with corners and safties because good teams will crack our safties if they know they have pitch all of the time. We tell our end if he gets a down block he takes first man be it fb on veer or qb on load. Our middle backers have f.b to qb depending on the option play. Hope this helps. Option is a great Offense because it forces the players to be asigned to a man.
Teach your ends a slow play technique where they force the QB to commit to run or pitch before attacking. This will buy time for the player(s) on the pitch and backside pursuit . If your end gets good at it, he will be able to take a flat step after the pitch is made and help play the cutback of the pitchman.
The thing to remeber is this. You need a base defense that is adaptable in its ability to defend the different types of offenses you will face. That being said, i like or basic 4-3 alignment in either cover two or three. We defend the option very well. We do not have set rules. We play first threat. It has worked wonders for us.
I think if you teach techniques as opposed to positions, you can jump into both odd and even fronts without sacrificing much. I think you want to be able to cover or leave uncovered any and all offensive line positions based on situations.
Teach your smaller Inside DL Players to play on the Nose and the guards inside shade, your bigger tougher ones to play on the Guard outside shade and Tackle inside Shade, and your bigger, faster athletic guys to play on the OT outside shade and on the TE.
Said a different way, teach 0 tech, 0 shade, 1 tech to inside smaller DL guys. Teach 3 and 4 (or 4 eye) to outside Larger DL guys. Teach 5, 6,7 and 9 to your taller more athletic DLinemen (who can run and contain QB).
Find at least 1 LB type or a 3rd DE type and you can play a variety of fronts and jump into them without committing to a 4-3 or 5-2, 5-3. You can align your players with your technique calls.
Take a look at the book, The Master Defense by Bob Troppmann, available at the CompuSports Media Exchange to see how this is done.
Looking at film, you can determine who their emphasis is on with the option.
We, in theory, want to force the QB to keep (inflicting as much punishment as possible on him). We generically defend it this way (from a 4-4/4-3);
DL read and step with OL, BSoLB/OLB has cutback on FB, BSiLB/MLB has FB, PSiLB/OLB has bounce, PSoLB/Monster has QB, DE flashes to pitch man, FS plays inside-out QB to pitch, and Corner has clean-up. This is effective, but not perfect. The teams we play do not hang their hat on the option, they only dabble in it (1 or 2 schemes).
If any team(s) were to get serious about it, we would have to rethink it.
This is the very reason we now run an option PACKAGE and not an option PLAY. From the I, we run; veer (w/ reverse, stutter pass, reverse pass, and true option-action pass), lead, deep, and counter options. This package (we estimate) gobbles up at least half of the opposing team's defensive practice time.
Coach, we defend the option out of a 33 scheme. Our DT and ILB have dive responsibility, our DE has QB, and our invert has pitch man. This is the simplest way I have ever seen of defending the option. If a team midlines us, we will run an 11 scheme. I hope this helps.
Lou Cella
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
How do you stop the dive with the 3-tech and ILB? I've never seen a team have success stopping the dive with a linebacker vs. a double team on the 3-tech.
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I'll tell you what. Most schemes I have seen dive vs. 33. The center blocks the backside LB, the guard blocks the 3, the tackle blocks down on the ILB. If your ILB reads it quickly enough, he will be in the fullbacks grill in no time. My advice- don't worry about scheme, worry about making the proper read and become great at reading keys. I hope this helps.
Lou
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
Coach, I'm thinking of a particular team that runs split back veer. They double team the 3-tech (trying to push him to the second level) and their backs read playside linebacker for cutback (if color shows outside the double team, he cutsback, if not, he hugs it outside.
If You're in a 33 front:
1) Does this type of double team change your linebackers reads/gap responsibility? (Will he tackle the dive back over the double team, or does he still attack A-gap?)
2) How do you teach/drill your BSLB to fight through the Center for cutback?
Thanks coach. I'm looking really hard at the 33 vs. veer teams, but I have a concern about this particular scheme.
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"Opportunites multiply as they are seized"-Sun Tzu