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.
Coaches, I coach freshman football. Last year was my first running the show (I had been a varsity assistant (QB's) for the last 8 years.) We run a 4-3. We play 3 wingT teams and have had some trouble stopping them. I take the blame, because I know that the players were not prepared to defend the wingT. I know how I would introduce keys and the scheme to a varsity group, but I don't feel that I have the board time, and my players don't have the knowledge of the game to use the same for freshman. Has anyone else out there coached freshman, or have a plan against the wingT, that would be suitable? We also see a couple of spread teams, the wishbone and the Fly. Kind of a broad question, I know. Thanks, Matt
The biggest key I believe when you face the wing t is the LBers must be reading the lineman. If the defense is reading the backfield, this offense will capitalize on you. You must take away the trap inside and the buck sweep outside and reading the guards will lead you to the play each time. I don't know what you teach your backers but thi is what i recomend
Coach, the 4-3 in the Wing-T works well. You have to demand productivity from your Defensive linemen to beat blocks and make plays. I know a coach who has won several state championships in New Jersey, and he told me at the Baltimore Megaclinic that nowadays most teams are stopping him with the front 4. Make sure that your tackles are staying in the guards' hip pockets and make sure that your ends play their gap in a disciplined fashion. Stick to your guns with the 4-3 versus the wing-t.
Lou Cella
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
Coach, if you talked to Wing T offensive coaches they will tell you that teams that give them the most trouble beat up the Tight End.
In addition to reading guards (careful about the influence and gut plays if you follow the guards), I think you could get some mileage out of playing a tight 9 technique and a 7 technique.
Our initial results with a 7 tech on the TE side and moving to an inside shade on the slot vs a tight slot have not been as good as we thought they would be. Since this is a new concept for us, we are not giving up on it yet.
i have had a lot of success against the wing-t using what we called our 30 wide front. it is really a 5-3. we play a 0-tech, two 3-techs, a 5-tech to the weak side, and a 9-tech to the strong side. all five of these players were true d-linemen. (i.e. the 9-tech played with his hand down, he did not have coverage responsibility). behind the line is a mike backer in a 50-tech to the strong side (c-gap player on flow to), a will backer in a 00-tech (because of the front alignment, this backer cannot be blocked), and rover-type in a 50-tech on the weak side. we usually played cover 3 or 1 behind it, but you can also use a bastardized form of cover 2 by rolling one of your corners back. the weakness of this defense is that you are forced to give up one zone (usually the hole). but typicall if you can force a wing-t team to rely on the pass, you are sitting pretty.