Post by IUGA on Nov 10, 2006 12:21:23 GMT
One thing we installed this year from the pistol formation was switching the traditional alignment of our H-Back and our Tail. The Tail was at 5 yards to the right or left of the Quarterback who was at 4 and a half, and the H-back was at 7 directly behind the quarterback. We zone read the backside DE and meshed with the tail like traditional zone-read option. The H went and blocked the outside LB to the playside as soon as the ball was snapped. The QB read the DE away from the inside zone and either gave the inside zone or pulled it and ran behind the H. This formation gave us some good looks because we could run inside and outside zone, we could run anything wanted to out of the passing set once we incorporated motion from the backfield to give us an Ace look (plus this made the defense give away their coverage, and the Ace formation is our base formation). Counter toss was fairly easy to integrate, along with counter out of an Ace look. It gave the quarterback the same viewpoint throughtout the entire game. Anyway the point of this post is to see if anyone else has come up with use for the pistol formation, or perhaps why they don't like it.