Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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I have a question that I hope a lot of people answer differently. Should I put in 3 basic plays or should I overload the kids with more information than they can probably handle? If I put in just a few plays for the first few days of practice, I think the upperclassmen, with experience, will get bored and start causing problems during the practice. If I put in too many plays it will keep everyone on their toes, but I will need to go over the more complex plays more often. I know that both of these have strengths and weaknesses, but I would like to know what you do for your practices.
What I have done in the past is put in a few plays everyday and progressively get into the harder, more complex plays.
Thanks in advance,
Nate
Should I put in 3 basic plays or should I overload the kids with more information than they can probably handle? Sounds like you answered your own question here.
If I put in just a few plays for the first few days of practice, I think the upperclassmen, with experience, will get bored and start causing problems during the practice. Who is in control. The coaches or the players?
What I have done in the past is put in a few plays everyday and progressively get into the harder, more complex plays.
Why more complex plays? why not block more complex fronts, movements, stunts, stems with your few plays. I do not know how coaches do all of this offense. We spend so much time on blocking all that a D can do to our basic plays, there is NO time for more complex plays. We do not have complex plays in our offense. I feel that plays should be easy to execute and reactionary in nature. If you are thinking then you are done. I do not care what my players think of the basic plays. We have a rationale for every play we run. We do not run plays to run plays or to fill up a playbook. When a play goes in, we ask the following:
1. Why run it?
2. What do we do to keep running it when the defense counters it?
3. How many formations can we run it from?
4. What is going to cost me in terms of time?
Work on those plays "you are going to hang your hat on". Because these are the ones that are going to work when the **** hits the fan. Tell your kids that we need to block this no matter what the defense does. NO EXCUSES. we do not except they know the play, or count or their cheating etc. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Concentrate on speed. When kids are challenged they are motivated. Find ways to challenge them. 10 perfect plays in a row. Pick up all stunts. Defense is going to cheat and know the play. Still block it. etc.
Finally,
Get a copy of Frosty Westerings books. They are good read and they might help with the upperclassmen problem.
Hope this helps
Karjaw
We dont lose any games we just run out of time.
Fisher Deberry
Don't ASSUME anybody (especially veterans) know ANYTHING! As Lombardi said about his famed Green Bay Sweep - "it is the first thing we put in every year, & we start from SCRATCH. To assume that the vets don't need to start from scratch is a mistake, and will get you beat quicker than anything I know. To A-S-S-U-M-E anything in football will make an "ASS" out of "U" and "ME"."
All posts have refelected good thinking for sure, as Bill says to one poster. To ASSUME anything in the dealings with veterans who have played for you in the past, is a REALLY BIG MISTAKE FOR CERTAIN!!!
As a young coach, I soon learned the validity of this axiom!!! As the years went by, it became abundantly clear that it is absolutely necessary to "start each season from scratch" as key mistakes were made by personnel that you just knew they knew what they were doing! If you want to win with guys who KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, START FROM SCRATCH SURE ENOUGH!!!
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
KARJAW:
Enjoyed your post! Well said!
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Whatever you do, keep it simple for the big dogs up front. They have the most difficult job in sports - handle an opponent in a specific way who gets to line up and move anywhere he wants and has buddies to help. I forget where I heard this (I think it was in a Oneback post?), but it is true - the skill guys aren't the ball handlers, the skill guys are the o-lineman who must step precisely yet be powerful and have many different situations to deal with.
IMHO an offense should install their bread and butter plays and understand those blocking schemes inside and out before they even think about anything else. Getting just the IZ right with the line and the backs can take a spring practice (if you have them) in and of itself. For example, it's been interesting keeping up with Rick Trickett's revamp job at FSU where he is installing the zone game. After the spring he's got some upperclassmen who started last year on the bench and underclassmen ahead of them because the older guys aren't getting it. He's gonna run his base stuff no matter what and the guys that play will get it and do it his way or they won't play. I'll predict they may struggle early, but FSU will have a running game again by mid-season because of his approach of getting the base scheme right and tight.
The things you do with formations, movement in the backfield, shifts, motions etc. is where you get the variety. For example, if you can block OZ to the TB, you can install the Jet sweep and block it like OZ for a different look. If you can run IZ, you can bootleg pass off of it. If you can't execute your base stuff against the defense you will see, all that other stuff just won't matter. If you can, the variety as suggested above gives you more than enough options to take it to the D.
Get the kids to understand that complacency is a killer, if they think they've got it all figured out have them draw up their base blocking schemes against every defense you will see. Throw situations on the base plays at them in practice and challenge them to handle it. Odds are they will get enough wrong that they will begin to understand they've got more work to do and can't afford to get complacent if they expect to win. The challenge for you and your staff will really have to know how to answer it for them and teach them. In the end, that's what it's all about and the competitive challenge we all face.
"The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his pursuit of excellence." - Vince Lombardi