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.
yr1 installed 4-3 when program always 4-4 and finished runner up in Illinois..had some serious players
yr2-4 back to 4-2 look due to personnel, did very well, multiple looks but has been mentally taxing to my head coach at times., and more grey hair for me. We have retruned to the playoffs each year still..
HC wants me to run one look with 2-3 coverages behind, so our front seven can run and hit! i UNDERSTAND...but havebecome very skilled at making my adjustments versus tendencies
I have talked him into allowing me to teach what I learned in college...3-4 under front, he has never been much of an odd front man, but trsuts me with what I do...
I am aware of the multiple looks available from this front, he would prefer me to stay with the 9,5,1,3,5 look, but I have really enjoyed changing up and annoying OC's....we still have had success, alon with the headaches of teaching ALOT!
When my head coach taught the 4-4, he believed we did best when he coordinated our kids to focus more on the D/D, formation and play tendencies...
Focusing on my last two comments, let's debate sit and read versus multiple looks basing out of 3-4 under, cover3/2/0
Bear Bryant once said that you hit & read out of BASE, but you can stem, move, stunts, etc. out of other looks. You don't have time to teach READS out of many fronts (unless the D-Line plays the same TECHNIQUES - I.E.: 3 tech, etc.)! It is LBer reads that are hardest to teach in multiple fronts.
Primary difference to me has always been that you teach a lineman to REACT FIRST and then READ, where you teach a LB to read and then react. In the old days, we taught defense by formation recognition
and the handfull of plays the opponent would run out of that particular set. Now, in the days of false keys it is no longer practical to rely totally upon those factors alone. Agree with Bill 100% when he posted that teaching the LB's is the main time consuming element to make the right reads in todays game. Lou, being a LB coach, I think will also agree with us.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
TRAIN your kids to react to their key quickly; however it is imperative to read uncovered lineman to backfield action. Your linebackers must know the difference between split flow, tight flow, and fast flow. Split flow=counter; fast flow= outside play; tight flow=iso/kickout. False keys have created the need to read more than just the uncovered lineman. In addition, high school linemen move so unbelievably slow, that they don't give you a sound read upon the snap of the ball.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)