Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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How would the width of #3 effect what you are doing? An extreme case where he is a wing to the other extreme?
If you are running 1 step hitches to any of the three receivers or bubble with the inside?
Or Curl/Bench (quick flat) with the inside receiver running to a spot near the MLB to his side as a blitz beater?
4 streak concept from 3x1, with outside rec. taking outside releases. #2 running straight up the field and #3 running immediately across the field behind the MLBs and in front of the FS if he's over the PSG. If playside is to the 3 rec side then he gets his eyes on the #3 coming across, if the FS simply drops he hits #3, if he begins to drift to the rec crossing, he goes back to his #2?
Because if #3 is in tight (say 1 yd outside weak OT & 1 yd deep - HE is no threat on "bubble". IF #3 is 5+ yds out - HE is a threat on the "bubble" & you have to walk a LBer out just inside of him (in Cov. 3 your S/S would be between #1 & #2).
Cover 1 is good because you MATCH UP with them. It is ALSO excellent vs. 4 streak & curl/bench AND bubble screen.
We RUN the plays you described from 3x1, & ALSO use the defenses I recommended above.
The real poblems begin when you play a guy like me who runs a 3 x 2 empty with the QB back 6-8 yds deep in the gun. 4 receivers present problems, and I figured 20 plus years ago if 4 receivers cause the DC's all this worry, what would 5 wides cause them? The answer proved to be really satisfying to me!
I move my receivers from a wide formation that covers the entire width of the field with the exception of 7 yd alley on either side so that we can stretch the field horizontally in the PSL, as well as, vertically on the snap. On the opposite end of the scale, we run a "close" formation where #3 trips side can actually be hid behind or inside of the playside tackle, or align as far outside as 5 yds outside the PST. How are you ever going to cover those receivers unless you play man straight across the board, your not. The minute you drop into ANY kind of zone, especially verses our wide 3 x 2 alignment we have you right where we want you because your defender will truly be put on an island with no help and it then becomes your best against our best. With some 8-9 zones to be covered by the defense, you are really at a disadvantage. If your thinking you will just send 6 against our front five, knowing we can only get a hat on 5, guess again because we pray for that to happen as that is when our QB's get an opportunity to really make something happen for our team as they are coached to become their own best blocker of the 6th man or free runner
that you will send by using their legs and getting out of harms way by throwing on the dead run without the necessity of having to pull up, plant, then throw. Just my way, but I was able to fashion a very nice win-loss record by utilizing the techniques just outlined and having good players who could execute them.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
We run cover 4 with the corner aligning on #1 and covering his quarter, the strong safety on #2 and covering his quarter, the free safety aligning in the middle of the field and covering his quarter, and we lock up with the corner on #1 backside. The outside linebacker to the trips side buzzes the flat, the mike opens to the side the running back opens, and the outside linebacker away from trips covers the back out of the backfield if he comes to that side. It has worked very well for us.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
IF YOU GET YOUR MIKE INFLUENCED, SAY BY A BACK OUT TO THE LIZ SIDE WHILE YOU ARE STRONG TO THE RIP SIDE AND HE LEAVES THE MIDDLE OPEN, HOW WOULD YOU DEFEND A PLAY (OUT OF THE "I") WHERE THEY SEND THE FB TO THE LIZ SIDE AND RUN A DELAY DRAW TO THE RB UP THE GUT? THE X WILL CRACK THE WLB AND THE TE WILL ARC RELEASE TO THE SAM AND TURN HIM OUT. JUST CURIOUS IF I AM UNDERSTANDING YOUR POST CORRECTLY.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Well it seems I've been doing the only reliable thing with my adjustment. I run a 1/4,1/4, 1/2 Coverage. or What we call Cover 6. I Align my Trips side CB to his 1/4 the SS over the #2 to carry into his 1/4 and the Free aligns over the weak B-Gap 12yds deep and Double teams the Lone #1 on the backside with the weakside CB playing one of three call. He can play 2 tech and Funnel #1 to the FS. He can Lock #1 Mana to Man with the Free over the Top or Zero with the FS playing 1/4 to the Trips side, leaving 3 1/4 covreage toward the Trips and man to man Backside. What has hurt us lately is the Buble which we play man to man on Screen downs, and the Mike not getting depth over the middle to take-away the #3 who can run skinny posts or Slant&go's into the Middle of the field.
Coaches, any holes or other suggestions you have would be great. Hopefully we see the team again in the playoffs. Also just a side note. How many of you would throw for the endzone (Twice) with a 28-0 lead with less then 2min. in the game with the defenses 2nd string? (varsity high school game) I really want to know.
The way that you are defending trips is succeptible to the wheel by #3 and corner-fly-post (inside-out) to the trips side. You need the free in the middle of the field to handle the third vertical player and provide help to the single receiver side.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
I used to play 1/4,1/4,1/2 vs trips but have since went to playing just quarters due to what coach cella has said with the free safety in the backside quarter he can play both the front side on the vertical and the double number 1 backside on the choice route.
quote: Originally posted by: CoachHawg Also just a side note. How many of you would throw for the endzone (Twice) with a 28-0 lead with less then 2min. in the game with the defenses 2nd string? (varsity high school game) I really want to know.
Interesting, it is a bit of an aside. Not on this end. We'd be grounding it out. If you are winning with less than 2 min. to go and up by 4 scores, then your D has done a great job and there is no way the opposition is going to score in that time frame if for 46 minutes they haven't scored yet.
There are some coaches out there that will tell you that "they are always attacking" and that if they don't continue to attack until the final whistle sounds then they are setting an example of weakness to their players that they can turn intensity on/off. I see a small slice of validity to this, but I think there are other ways to foster an aggressive attitude.
It's funny, but in our area, especially last year we had one team that decided to torch everyone they played (except us, ie they lost to us). They had one game where they scored over 60 points (the opposition scored 0) and on the final play of the game, which happened to be a PAT opted to line up for the kick and then have the holder take the snap and run it in for 2 instead of 1. The play that scored their final TD was a fake run to one side with one of their WR arcing back around on a reverse the opposite direction for the score. I could go on and I think the majority of you would be amazed.
When it was all said and done, I think the worst part was that both the HC and a number of his players commented that what they did was A-Ok.
I'm certainly not in favor of any type of slaughter rules, but there has to be some maturity with the coaching fraternity that respects the game as well as the mentorship aspect of what we do enough to say that the 1 extra point at the end of the game is not worth it, much less the 6 prior off of a razzle dazzle play as opposed to simply grinding it up the gut as they had easily been able to do throughout the game.
what we are doing this week vs. trips open ( no te, a split end) t othe trips we have the corner7-8 yds off of #1 playing 1/4's, OLB between 2 and 3 depending on their width sinking until 3-4 steps then settling in "flats" deep safety playing basically quarters ( we are in a two deep look)....backside corner is press man with other safety playing over the top....BSOLB has an automatic blitz off the corner, he covers rb if he flares or swings to that side, Mike plays hook to curl to the strong side. Now we do have some tendencies we are going by for doing this....what do you think.
I respect your opinion but here is how I have always looked at it: IF YOU CAN BEAT ME 100-0 GO FOR IT!!! WHY SHOULD THE TEAM THAT HAS THE BEST PLAYERS AND ARE THE BEST PREPARED BE "PENALIZED" BY NOT BEING ABLE TO SCORE ALL THEY CAN GET??? A GOOD TEAM KILLS A MOSQUITO WITH AN AXE!!!
I have always been offended by a coach who has just got his tail kicked going over to the oposing coach and getting all ticked off because the guy " ran up the score ". To me, that is about as childish as you can get. FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF COMPETITION AND JUST LIKE IN WAR, "TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS". The trouble with coaches today is they are more concerned with a players "self esteem" than his ability to play the game. Whenever I would get my butt kicked by a team that came to play and was better prepared than mine, and wanted the win more than my kids did I was the first one across the field to shake the other coaches hand and tell him "great job coach!" This mollycoddling of todays athletes is a joke to me. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Coach harder, smarter, be a better teacher and then YOUR guys will be in the drivers seat.
Please don't get me wrong, I have done this far to long to not realize that I am a dinosaur with this kind of thinking, but if I had it to do all over again I would do it exactly the same as I always have. In 42 years of coaching, I have never had a player who went on to become a killer because I thought it right to teach him to be tough. I never coached a young man who even went on to go to prison, and I will guarantee you there are few coaches today who can say that.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Why have your strong corner on the trips side sit off? You are rolling up your corner on the split end side because he is their best receiver, I would assume, and that to me is exactly how I play BOTH corners. I roll up both CB's with inside leverage and don't give them any shot at a quick slant or skinny post. I learned a long time ago that the hardest thing you can teach a receiver is how to get off the jam. So, with this knowledge, it always made sense to me to jam the fire out of him and not grant him free release into the pattern by sitting off, plus by playing with inside leverage you force him to run the fade or go which is a much lower percentage of completion pass to throw, than a shallow inside route. Just my way.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
I agree with what you are saying, and most times I would pressure the receiver with my corners. But this weeks team from the trips set is going to run a rocket type screen to that side and work a rocket and go off of it. Our OLB on that side between 1 and 2 when he reads screen will get up in the throwing lane (hopefully) our corner is playing off to watch for the rocket and go by the blocker....our safety to that side will come up hard on screen as well as our MIKE>
I don't think we are so much disagreeing as we simply are looking at some of the subtlties a bit differently.
I'd agree, back in the mid 90's when I was playing HS ball we played a team we were "supposed" to smoke, we came out and had it handed to us to the tune of about 42 to 7. What frustrated me the most during the game was the fact that in the 4th quarter the HC of the other team decided to sub out his 1st string fellas and put in his 2nd string guys. We ended up pretty much in a stalemate from there on, but I would have rather been out there fighting their #1s and getting waxed then play even or defeat their #2s. But, I was also 17 at the time and for me personally I think that was simply a ton of adrenaline and a lot of pride.
As a coach now I can see all sides of it and IMHO, if you can go out and score X amount of points go do it. Shoot, that is what we are all trying to do each week, but I also know that for me personally in a program that at the moment averages 50 to 60 kids on the varsity I have a ton of kids that work their tales off in practice making my #1s better players and personally I believe they do deserve the reward of entering the game and contributing. Not to mention the fact that I think at some point when you know the game is "over" there is a time to get your studs out from the injury perspective (and yes an injury can happen at any time, but if I give a player 20 plays versus 40 plays simply probability dictates he has more of a chance over a season of having an injury with the 40 plays then the 20 plays). My point here is that if you've subbed folks and are running your base offense and making your kids better and happen to be continually pounding folks then so be it. But when you leave 1st string studs in a game until about 4 minutes remaining (winning by over 60, inorder to pad stats) and then once you finally sub folks in you (even though you are picking about 5 to 10 up per carry straight up the field) decide to (a) bring a stud from one side of the ball and put him on the other side of the ball so he can get some stats and then (b) once it's completely 2nd string folks decide to run plays that are somewhat special to your offense and so forth. Well, I'm just not down with that. Add to that fact the team that they were facing hadn't won a game in about 2 to 3 years.
IMHO, this isn't about sugar-coating things and it's not about helping little johnny feel better (ie give him a trophy) for coming in 20th out of 20. This is about respecting both the young men across the field and the coaches across the field. IMHO, there is a time where as a coach (if you've coached long enough) you look and say, "Game over, time to make the rest of the team better and if we can add some scores great, but whether it's 42-0 or 56-0 when the whistle sounds it's going to be a W" The question will only be whether or not our guys continued to execute down the stretch.
This is a bit of a soap-box for me, and ironically as a coach I've really never been in this situation, but like I said in our area and more recently we have at least one program that seems it their obligation to do this type of stuff. I would add that in another game where they were winning by 21 with 2 seconds remaining in the game and on the 5 yard line of the opposing team they decided to throw for another score. Did the extra 7 make the W that much better?
This would also be a team that routinely was flagged for excessive celebrations/taunting which included turning at the 5 to 10 yard line and holding the ball out towards the chasing defender to say can you catch me or doing frontward flips into the endzone upon scoring.
I guess when you add all of those things up, plus more, it's the total picture that stinks. If that is what coaching HS football is about, then I'm participating in the wrong thing, period.
I understand your dilemma now, did not know about the rocket screen. If you mentioned it I guess I missed it reading your post. YOUR ADJUSTMENT PLAN SHOWS GOOD THINKING ON YOUR PART. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Thanks Coach Easton,
I do not think I mentioned the rocket in my first post. I always appreciate your input and insight I am always learning alot from everyone on this board.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with anything in your last post. To be sure, there is such a thing as being a jerk about a players on field demeanor (taunting, etc.) that is totally unacceptable to me and always has been.
When striving to get "all you can get" I certainly agree with the fact that you give the 2's and 3's a great opportunity that night to sharpen their playing skills, without doubt. Not so much worried about injury factor to the 1's but rather to insure that next years team and the year after that will be a scenario of
"reloading" and not "rebulding". I never was one to worry about injury because I think that attitude rubs off on the players and I never wanted anyone from my high school teams to my professional minor league teams to worry about getting nicked. Sure as shootin' when they start worrying about that, they start "tippin" (playing at half speed) and as you well know that IS when you get hurt.
I appreciate your comments and have enjoyed the exchange of ideas.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
quote: Originally posted by: CoachHawg How many of you would throw for the endzone (Twice) with a 28-0 lead with less then 2min. in the game with the defenses 2nd string? (varsity high school game) I really want to know.
Originally posted by: Coach Easton
"I respect your opinion but here is how I have always looked at it: IF YOU CAN BEAT ME 100-0 GO FOR IT!!! WHY SHOULD THE TEAM THAT HAS THE BEST PLAYERS AND ARE THE BEST PREPARED BE "PENALIZED" BY NOT BEING ABLE TO SCORE ALL THEY CAN GET??? A GOOD TEAM KILLS A MOSQUITO WITH AN AXE!!!"
Coach Easton,
I also respect your opinion, but I must disagree with you. I don't know how big the school(s) are where you coach, but where I come from, there is often a big descrepency between populations. There are schools in our conference that have twice as many students as we do (we have about 325). Every season we will play some interstate games that have schools with 1000 more kids than we do. The reason we play these teams is geography and money. They are the closest non-conference schools, and our district will not pay to send us 200-300 miles away just to play another school that is comparable in size. Therefore, in our down years, the other teams have the ability to run the score up on us. There is not much we can do about it. They are not the better prepared team, but they do have the better players because of numbers, and there is not much we can do about scheduling. They keep us on their schedule because they get power points by beating us. We schedule 3 of those schools every year and have won exactly 2 of those games in the last 5 years. Now I am not complaining that we play them because it allows us to get some work done and prepare for our conference games. However, there should be some level of professionalism involved in situations such as ours.
As far as I'm concerned, they can do what they want for the first 3 1/2 quarters. But when the game is decided and out of hand, then it is time to show some class as a coaching fraternity and not rub the other team's nose in it. It has nothing to do with self esteem or "X's and O's".
In the case of the 28-0 game, I say throwing in the last two minutes is fine. Reason number one is because the team with the ball is probably playing their second team, and reason number two is that is not that ridiculous of a score. In our case we would be down by 50 or 60 points and their starters would still be chucking it around. So it all depends on the situation.
By the time my son was a senior, there were exactly 6 seniors out for football, and only 35 out for the entire program (9-12). At the time that my son was in the 8th grade through his junior year, the coaches of those larger schools (especially at the lower levels) were of the variety that ran up the score. The kids at our school were tired of getting the crap kicked out of them, so many did not go out for football again. I firmly believe that those losses really killed our program, which we are in the process of rebuilding.
The schools that we played would bring 60-75 kids to their lower level games, while we were bringing 15-20. They would leave their starters in for the entire game, and use the excuse, "This is what we do! We are not going to change our offense just so you don't feel bad." Tell me that running the football in your last two or three series changes your entire offense, and I say you are full of crap. Not only were we getting our heads handed to us, but we were also getting injured (something a team with small numbers cannot afford). At this moment we have a lineman who was all conference honorable mention as a freshman who can't play now due to an injury sustained against one of those schools. Those losses really hurt our program in the big scheme of things. Fortunately, the coaches from the other schools were removed from coaching and things are getting better. We aren't winning those games yet, but our program is improving and our younger kids are not giving up on football. So once again to summarize, it all depends on the situation, and coaches need to make the right decision for ALL the kids.
Guess that is why we have vanilla and chocolate, if we all looked at every issue in the same fashion it would be rather dull.
In a 42 year coaching career that spanned from coast to coast, I have coached at the largest classifications schools and never the smallest but on two occcasions at the second smallest. If you have only 15-20 players, you have no business playing the big schools, that is ridiculous. I have coached at schools that had 3 complete strings on both sides of the ball and two units of special teams! I would never play a school that could only field a handful of players, never. Your board needs to get together with the other small schools and decide on a mutual playing site where you guys can easily reach and work out a schedule where you can "level the playing field" playing only the small schools of comparable numbers.
But, it is my stance and I'm not changing it, if you get your butt kicked that is how it goes, don't blame the other coach as it makes you look like a whimp! Sure, the other guy is a jerk for doing the things that you mention, no doubt about it, but let OTHER COACHES AND FANS SAY IT, NOT YOU. I think if you adopt this policy, YOU WILL BE THE WINNER IN THE END. Just my opinion as always.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
If a team is running out of it, I'd play 1/4 coverage, but sky to the single side and bracket him. If a team is passing out of it-- How? If they are a screen to the trips, I'd push the coverage--- roll a safety down and walk a backer inside #2 and 3. If they throw 4 verticals, YOU MUST go two high-- can run cover 2 or 4.
If they do all of the above, mix the coverages.
If they run the option--- YOU CAN't go MAN!!! I learned the hard way!!!
Good Luck
If you can "stop the run", the offense becomes predictable.
I don't like running the score up - but on the other hand, I saw a team blow a 35-0 half time lead in the State PLAYOFFS last year (they LOST 38-35). UNBELIEVABLE!
Some would think that at 35-0 at half you should have it if you are playing sound ball coming into the second half, but then again if you scored 35 and they didn't score any and you've seen them on film and at the half are saying to yourself that your defense played a hell of a game combined with their offense playing terrible, then you have to be saying to yourself that you still have a ball game.
I really think this whole side discussion of scoring and such is about us as grown mature men not being kids out there and letting our emotions take the best of us, but rather being level-headed and logical in what is going on based on information gathered both prior to the game and during the course of a game. I think the ultimate issue is that too often some of us coaches get too much of an adrenaline rush for putting the points up that when it's happening even in a game where you are clearly superior the competition rather than subbing folks and doing other things that somewhat would be perceived to limit the damage to the other team we get stuck on wanting to get our "virtual high" of scoring X amount of points.
As others have said we all look at it in different ways.
One additional anecdotal thought -- We have a team in our area that just opened up this year, they have zero seniors in their school if I'm not mistaken and instead of playing only a jayvee schedule opted in their first year to play a full varsity schedule. Not sure if the HC decided that or the school board. But in one of their games they lost something close to 90-0 (to a rather good team). Some might look and say that this was running up the score, but after listening to comments from kids from both schools as well as the coaches it's clear that everyone left the game in pretty good shape. The HC from the team that won stated how after the score was clearly out of reach and they were scoring at will that he had two options, option one was to the kneel the ball or simply punt on first down, the other was to simply run his most basic running plays. He opted which I think all of us would agree to be correct, his most basic running plays and guess what he continued to score. What I admire about the HC from the winning program is that he understood his competition going in after watching film and he anticipated (a) that if it was a dogfight how they would execute, but that if (b) it wasn't a dogfight that he could help his entire team. He opted to dress a number of his JV players for this game (as the school did not have a jv program) and ultimately many of his sophs and frosh were playing the game throughout the second half (and yes they were still scoring). The HC from the losing team opted to (a) not let the clock be a continuous running clock as he had spoke to his team that each game would be a learning experience and that it would take time for them to get where they were going, that they should not have unrealistic goals, but that they should play with great passion on every snap even in the face of great adversity. He went on to commend the opposing coach for how he and his players conducted himself throughout the game.
I think to a large extent that story sums up my point. Sure we all want to put the points up, but I would say that both sides learned great lessons about life in a 90-0 ball game and at the end nobody was raging mad at the other guy. The winning coach allowed his starters to do their thing and then was prepared to make his program better by bringing up younger guys. He opted to run basic plays for his younger guys because in order for them to one day run the razzle and dazzle they need to be proficient at the basic. On the flip side the losing HC, coached up his kids in their opening season to understand that hard work in the offseason through weight training and speed conditioning as well as experience in season will one day help them acheive their goal. In understanding that, they should understand that early on their maybe some rough roads, some really rough, but that as long as each week they continue to improve and correct the correctable, they will oneday be in a different place. This game as I'm not a college, semi-pro or NFL coach is about those things. The X's and O's are supplemental to setting examples that hopefully the young men I coach will one day follow. In my book both of those coaches deserve a heck of a lot of credit.
I WISH we could sit down with our board and decide who we play and who we don't. Our state athletic association has the biggest say in who we play, not our school board. Things are done a bit differently where I live. Where I live the "mutual sites" are the still a several hour drive for us and the other team. Mind you, our CLOSEST away conference game is an hour drive. The rest are between 2 and 4 hours. Those non-conference games I spoke of are only 30 minutes away. We are located right on the state line, so all of our state competition is west of us. We only have two regions in our classification and the nearest school on the other side is a 5 1/2 hour DRIVE alone. We have a lot of wide open spaces, mountain ranges, and our "metropolitan" areas have 50-60 thousand people. Not to mentions hazardous roads and traveling conditions during the fall. Again, I am not complaining. We will be just fine. There is just no way that we will be traveling that far for games with schools of comparable size. I used to coach in the Phoenix area, where things like this were not an issue. But here, that's the way it is. And don't get me wrong, if we get our butts kicked, I don't run around yelling about the other coach's philosophy. I don't let my players use it as an excuse either. We turn them into learning experiences and get better from them. Any griping goes on behind closed doors. As for me, I would never intentionally continue to run over lesser competition. I believe that it makes my players confident and classy, and it gives my younger guys a chance to shine. If my 2's and 3's were still overpowering the competition, it would be with basic offense and defense. Where we come from it needs to be that way because our kids do not live and die for football (like I do).
SEFootball:
Great post, and I agree. As coaches we need to keep our emotions and egos out of the way in those situations. The coaches you spoke of were both exactly correct in their philosophies. And it is about life lessons. Both of those teams learned a lot about winning and losing, and how to do both while maintaining their dignity and respect.
P.S.: By the way, as I mentioned before, I wouldn't call of the dogs in a 35-0 game. I said that in the last 4-6 minutes of a game is when I would consider ratcheting it down. Too bad for the loser of that playoff game if that is what they chose to do.
When Jimmy Johnson was winning Super Bowls in Dallas, this was HIS "special" adjustment that he preferred from "QUARTERS" vs "Trips" from his 4-3 (he held it as a somewhat "guarded" secret in those days): I used this on the college level (Division II) in 1995 & 1996 (our staff visited with him). He SHOWED "Quarters" & cheated to this late wiuth only the F/S moving (on the RUN). You can see that 4 of the 7 coverage men REMAIN in "QUARTER COVERAGE":
I HAD a lot of video tape of him playing this, but can no longer locate it (in my ATTIC). His COACHING POINTS for "QUARTERS" were EXCELLENT. They set a TREND in the NFL & College with THEIR version of it!
I respect your opinion but here is how I have always looked at it: IF YOU CAN BEAT ME 100-0 GO FOR IT!!! WHY SHOULD THE TEAM THAT HAS THE BEST PLAYERS AND ARE THE BEST PREPARED BE "PENALIZED" BY NOT BEING ABLE TO SCORE ALL THEY CAN GET??? A GOOD TEAM KILLS A MOSQUITO WITH AN AXE!!!
I have always been offended by a coach who has just got his tail kicked going over to the oposing coach and getting all ticked off because the guy " ran up the score ". To me, that is about as childish as you can get. FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF COMPETITION AND JUST LIKE IN WAR, "TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS". The trouble with coaches today is they are more concerned with a players "self esteem" than his ability to play the game. Whenever I would get my butt kicked by a team that came to play and was better prepared than mine, and wanted the win more than my kids did I was the first one across the field to shake the other coaches hand and tell him "great job coach!" This mollycoddling of todays athletes is a joke to me. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Coach harder, smarter, be a better teacher and then YOUR guys will be in the drivers seat.
Please don't get me wrong, I have done this far to long to not realize that I am a dinosaur with this kind of thinking, but if I had it to do all over again I would do it exactly the same as I always have. In 42 years of coaching, I have never had a player who went on to become a killer because I thought it right to teach him to be tough. I never coached a young man who even went on to go to prison, and I will guarantee you there are few coaches today who can say that.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
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Coach this is HIGH SCHOOL Football!!! The purest form of the game and when I have opposing coaches taking away from the purity which entails , respect, sportsmanship, and class I am offended. I've been on the other side of the field when we're up by more then 40 points and our 2's are in and we run the clock out. It's about respect and remembering it's a sport to raise men and "kicking a man when he's down" is not manly its shameful. Repsect the man across from you he is your brother. I would never kick my brother while he's down.