Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Any simple coaching points on teaching a newby QB on the finer points of the pitch read. Not the pitch itself but seeing / reading pitch keys. What do you tell your QB after the pull decision - ie Steps? What are they looking at or for? Any basic self-corrections or common errors? Thanks
Plays: From a 2x2 Spread Gun Formation, Triple Option Inside Veer (read the force player as the pitch key) ala Tony Demeo UCharleston; From a 2x2 Spread Gun formation - Double Option (Speed) ala Tony Demeo UCharleston - reading the force player as the pitch key.
We tell our QB to attack the inside shoulder, and read the outside shoulder. If the outside shoulder turns into you pitch the ball. As long as the shoulder stays out you run.
Alan Peacock
Quarterbacks Coach
Clinton High School
Our QB's thought process is...same key indicators as above but more importantly..once the back has the QB's pitch read OUTFLANKED.... PITCH.....pitch back should be 4 1/2 to 5 yards from QB, even or a step in front of QB...if he's trailing too far then the defender can possibly play both.
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Always taught the Qb to read the inside shoulder of the readman and if he did anything but step into the hole and take the dive backs path away, GIVE IT. On the pitch read, if the read man IN THE PSL, has
aligned himself in a 4i tech (verses a 50 front in this example) it then becomes an AUTOMATIC PITCH with no more reading necessary. (iSV) If he reads pitch, the pitch man should always maintain a one yd deep and 5 yds wide relationship with his QB on the high school level. I see your point of having the contain guy outflanked by the pitch back, but always considered it distracting to have the QB take his eye off the pitch read to check the back's progress until he was ready to make the pitch. Never allowed him to pitch blind, Jamel Holloway from Oklohoma was the only guy I ever saw who could do that consistently. I junked the ride and decide 20 years ago and have utilized nothing but the point method ever since. With the QB's head always pointed directly at the read man, along with the rest of his body all pointing in the same direction and not having to reach back to the dive back which to me was always uncomfortable and unnatural, it is much easier for the QB to maintain his downhill angle of attack than coming down the line parallel which only invites penetration and then recovering by the QB who is now AWAY from his read and thus facing the nemisis of any option QB, the fuzzy read! Just my opinion as always. Your thoughts?
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Correction on my last post: wrote that if the QB reads a 4i in the psl, it becomes an automatic pitch. Of course, that is not correct. It becomes an automatic PULL, not a pitch as the QB is now on his way to his second read in the ISV which is the DE who will dictates if the QB keeps and cuts it up or makes the pitch.
Sorry about not being specific enough.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Right on..never pitch blind...we always wanted the pitch back to be running fast..maintaing pitch relationship..no matter where the QB goes. to many backs idle down and have to regroup after the pitch..so therefore we liked him to be out in front of the QB's peripheral vision.
Happy are those who dreams dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
I've seen some video of option guys teaching their qbs to break down and essentially "give" with the DE's hit once the pitch is made. How do you teach this? Or if you don't, what do you tell your qb to do post pitch?
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
-Coach Darrel Royal
Another thing I think a lot of fellow coaches miss is the emphasizing of the absolute necessity of the pitch back to stop his path and to cut it up the instant the QB decides to keep and cuts it up first! If he is late at getting the pitch relationship reestablished , the success of a down field pitch by the QB is seriously jeopardized. An idea that they seemed to really grasp when discussing this facet of the pitch(the pitch backs) wsa when I would tell them: Look guys, the QB has done all the work to a point if he keeps and cuts it up himself, right. What happens if you are not there and a safety comes boiling across his face forcing him to either get his jock knocked loose or pitching it? If you are there as you should be, you get to be the hero with a very good shot at a touchdown as you take the pitch and are off to the races! Just my way.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE