Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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I'm facing a team with superior speed. Our D line is physically bigger and stronger then their O line. The teams best play is outside veer. We are 4-2-5. My ILBs are too slow to scrape to their fast QB when the DE Squeezes Dive. What should I consider as an answer? TB is fast too, so I need something with 4 secondary men too play pitch to both sides and pass effectively.
How can they run outside veer vs. a 7 technique, Coach? They can't. You eliminate the play by alignment. Even if you run an 8 (head up on TE) technique (now the preferred alignment by all NFL 4-3 teams), how is outside veer a question?
Versus a 4-2-5, if they are a TRUE triple option team, they will attack you by running midline vs. inside veer. If they do, Email me back and I will tell you how to DESTROY it from a 4-2-5. We've killed the triple four times in four years and I have been a triple option offensive coach since I started coaching.
What's their plan B? Is it inside veer? If they are an outside veer team, they need to have a 4i/4/5 technique to tight end side. If they are going to run the triple option, make sure that your players fast play everything... read key on dive, pitch key on QB, secondary support on pitch and then change it up by putting the read key on the QB and the pitch key on the pitch.
You must have two ways to defend the option so that the offense can't load your dive player and they can't get the ball outside vs. secondary force.
Give me their top three concepts and I'll help you eliminate them. I await your response.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
Sorry Coach, I wasn't clear. We play two 3 Techs a lot. The outside veer would go weak, usually to twins. Their adjustment to the 1 & 5 on weak side would be inside veer, but no they are not a true triple option team. They will run Iso, sweep, and speed option out of gun with 1 back. They basically just try to get their fast athletes on the perimeter. Backs have good vision and can run inside though if necessary. They haven't run a single midline, even vs. other 4-2-5 teams. They are better athletes in space, so I need a way to keep them inside.
We run the veer, but it's really more of a straight dive or option call, the only read is based on the EMLOS. I call either the "veer" or the "veer option".
All that said, we don't run the veer to a 7 technique. We would have to run our inside veer which is to the 3 or 4 hole, typical left is odd and right is even. We will double the 3 thru to the MLB, in more of a stacked front that means my PSG has to be a beast and ultimately will have the 3 tech almost by himself as my PST will only be able to marginally help while trying to get to the PSMLB. What makes it tough is that 7 tech based on the PSG blocking down is going to shoot like crazy off his hip. Our TE has to make an incredible block and this is typically not going to happen. I suppose we could really move our TE splits out and put the 7 in more of a bind.
But as a result we'll tend to either go weak/to a quick side where our inside veer blocking now becomes a bit better for us. We'll also tend to use more spread out formations that do not utilize a TE, which gives more of an impression of pass and ultimately more of a hard pass rush from the DE in their 5 techs.
My focus would be training my backers to fill vs. iso, force the ball back inside vs. sweep, and get secondary help on pitch man when running speed option to TE side. They can't run speed away from TE, you have them outnumbered. If they are a casual veer team, you can have ONE way to defend the option, because they're casual.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)