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.
This past season my 8th grade football team ran the 4-4 defense and had some great success using this. This year I have been ordering the GMC 3-5-3 videos and feel real good about this defense. Now, I'm planning on attending the glazier clinic's comming up but there are not to many places teaching this defense. What I would like to know is, is there any difference with 3-5-3, 3-3-5 and 30 stack before I make this trip?
Coach it's a great defense if you have time to teach it. To my knowledge they are all the same concept with different labels in that all of them feature 6 in the box with outside inverts. My experience with it is that it's great for stopping the outside run, strong on the inside run, strong on the pass, vulnerable to the Power. The key with it is to take full advantage of the stack and use stunts, slants, and blitzes.
The downside to that is it takes a lot of time to teach it to the kids. I've used that defense at that level and if you have time to teach it all, face strong outside and/or passing teams it's very effective. I've since gone back to the 4-4 and I like the 4-4 better because I think it is simpler to teach and rep.
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Coach thank's for your reply. I would have to agree with you on the 4-4 being easier, we installed the 4-4 last year after our 2 or 3 game with the basic's and finished real well. Now, would you suggest trying the 353?
If you play a lot of spread teams and/or outside run teams and you have some athletes that can anchor those Spur positions, you have the time to really study it in the off season so you can effectively teach it in the fall, it might be worth it. If you play a lot of old school smash mouth teams I'd stick with the 4-4.
As with all things, if you can teach it, you can be effective with just about anything - I was amazed watching how good Columbine was in the Colorado championship game running the goodl 'ol straight T against a spread team. Coach Campbell's advice comes to mind here to, and it's helped me a lot: Don't coach what you can't fix, which to me means if you're gonna teach it you better understand it pretty darn good.
"The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his pursuit of excellence." - Vince Lombardi