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.
Quarter, quarter,half type of coverage. Jam #2 on the LOS. Trips side corner plays deep 1/3 really. FS plays in weak side A gap, then defends middle 1/3. Weak corner is locked up. Weak side LB has any back out his way, or takes hook to curl if no one shows.
That or we play cover 0 or 1. Depends on opponent.
QUOTING PAUL "BEAR" BRYANT - perhaps the finest defensive coach of all times: "Your "BASE" (no matter WHAT it is) must be easily adjustable to all situations WITHOUT changing front calls & coverages everytime the offense "breaks wind"!!!!! It may not be the BEST answer, but it must BE an answer, otherwise, your "base" isn't of much use to you. If you have to stray away from base TOO OFTEN - get a new base (there is a very limited amout of time in HS to get good at ONE thing, let alone many).
PS: It has been MY experience (on all 3 levels) that if you have to make too many adjustments - two things happen, & both of them are bad:
#1 You spend more time in practice on adjustments that on good, solid, FUNDAMENTALS!
#2 The kids get confused, & confused football players CANNOT be aggressive!!!
That is not too "earth shaking"! There are literally HUNDREDS of things the offense can do with SHIFTS/MOTIONSD/VARIOUS FORMATIONS - that is why adjustements must be FEW & SIMPLE (especially in HS) because they have to be made oin a SPLIT SECOND! I find that adjustments are just as difficult for the front 7 as the 4 deep in many instances!
This is what offenses hope to gain by "moving" people:
“MOVEMENT”
MOVEMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR TOTAL OFFENSIVE SYSTEM.
THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS FOR MOVEMENT IN OUR OFFENSE; AMONG
THE MOST PROMINENT REASONS ARE:
1. To create a personnel advantage by creating mis-matches on our Receivers or Backs.
2. To create a personnel advantage by effecting changes in run support and force responsibilities.
3. To create secondary movement in an effort to better enable our Quarterback to recognize coverage.
4. To get our personnel in better position to execute their given assignment.
5. To create problems for the defense in Man under coverages when attempting to hold or bump Receivers at the line of scrimmage.
6. To create an opportunity for indecision, confusion, and/or mis-alignment by the secondary.
7. To cause movement on the part of the Defense in an effort to realign their personnel with the coverage calls and changes and not allow them to set themselves and react to familiar offensive patterns. Make the Defense “play on the move”.
8. To force opponents to spend practice time and effort on adjusting to movement patterns rather than improving defensive skills and schemes.
9. To create a visual complexity to the defense, yet be able to run the same basic plays from a variety of looks.