Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
This manual provides you with the full offensive line, receiver, and quarterback mechanics for installing each offensive play presented. Coach Campbell has left no stone unturned for implementing today’s Pistol Offense into your program.
I understand that this topic has been discussed a ton on this site. Maybe I am just stupid, of over analyzing things but I have some questions as we try and put this in.
1. Tailbacks footwork on IZ and OZ?
2. Reads on IZ for running back? V. a 3 tech? VS a 1 tech?
I was at notre dame in the spring, their offensive line coach talked about how if they get a shade that they solo block him with the center and the back reads him. And that if they get a 3 tech. the gaurd will solo block him and the tailback would read that block?
I have been reading on here about "getting vertical pushes" out of double teams and combo's, if I understood the nd guy they never get a double team.
Trust me, double teams sound great to me, out kids are used to combo-ing and reading backside linebackers , not playside one's? If I have them do that, how do i teach the running back to read the play?
Is adding fold block on a one tech regardless of what side he is on a crazy thought
Be VERY careful about adopting things the way colleges run them. Often times they have so much more time to devote to teaching little adjustments to fronts, etc.
Inside Zone:
TB Footwork: Lead 45deg; Crossover; Square down-hill
Aim for the crack of the G's butt... cram the B-gap... usually he's reading the 1st DL past the C
Outside Zone:
TB's aiming for a spot 2 yards outside the TE... open and go.
As a rule you want vertical double teams, with more of a 1 man overtake on the OZ. BUT... everyone has to remember to block a playside GAP, and block their track. Bill Mountjoy (oneback) has had great success with a numbering of the defenders to decide who you are running.
I suggest you try and get a hold of the Rams playbook circa 2000... it's well written up there. If you can't find it on a site, email me BlackFly73@yahoo.com and I will send it to you.
On the OZ we run for butt of TE (like A Gibbs) so RB can cut UP (not back) over TE's original align if man TE blocks stretches. Otherwise, we are the same as Black Fly.
Numbering of defenders is used by MOST (not all) NFL & College coaches I know on the Zone plays!!!!!
IMO - ANYBODY wanting to understand ZONE blocking must study Alex Gibbs' tapes. He is the MASTER of those plays! You can order them online from GILMAN GEAR! Any understanding of zone blocking WITHOUT watching these tapes is folly!
this is from an article I read about Alex Gibbs yesterday:
Alex Gibbs: He changed the way modern offensive lines block for the running game. Gibbs wasn't interested in 350-pound offensive linemen. He wanted 290-pound athletes and he couldn't care what round they were discovered in. In fact, a free-agent tight end willing to change positions was even more his kind of guy than a first-round offensive lineman. His style has to be considered more aggressive than most, and the way he teaches his players to get backside defenders on the ground has been the basis for the great Broncos running games no matter which running back they had in the backfield. He went to Atlanta, and overnight the Falcons became a leading rushing offense in the NFL. Gibbs proved you can still run the ball in the NFL when you want to, as long as you have the aggressive athletes he likes to coach.