Installing an option attack from the gun

Coach:

The one thing you want to keep in mind adding the option to the gun is that you can keep the actions the same to make it easier for the QB and the running backs. We have the backs take a jab step so they are in the same spot on the midline, inside veer and the outside veer. This way the QB knows where they are on the start of each play. If you run the speed option you can shuffle pass back off of it and also false key the same action to run the option. We have had great success with this action.

Mervin - Do you have any more information that you can send me on this? Visual Aids...etc..

Coach:

I'd be very happy to send you the information you need, just let me know your address at my E-mail address, Shotgunveer@yahoo.com. Thanks

Hey Mervin,

You are absolutely right about the dive back's angle being read. That is why I have always coached, when running any option, that the QB's and Dive backs first step should always be directly DOWN HILL AT HIS READ, BEHIND THE SURGE OF THE LINE AND NEVER PARALLEL TO THE LOS. Thanks for your response and best of luck this season.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

To each his own, coach. I know I do like the down hill angle of the gun, but I also ran the triple out of the bone from under center for many years with good success. What your kids (QB + Dive Back + your pitch back ) like best is what I would go for. Best of luck.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE

thanks tiger and merv.i can tell you are both smart experienced guys. would you say from your experience that the QB's from Gun veer are getting less head shots than from UC veer? that was certainly the experience of the QB's at U of charleston.another good reason to switch to gun for me.we've been dicking around with it informally before official spring camp starts and our kids love the gun so far.remains to be seen in game situation but i think i'm going to be a convert to the GUN religion.Not to mention my stolen WV fake zone read play action underneath pass play.i think play action is just as effective or even more effective from what i saw at the spring clinic at UC.

I think the old rocking chair theory after you pitich the ball is a good one. We work on it with the QBs where they rock backwards and thus don't take a direct hit, the keyword is hopefully.

the other thing Demeo taught was to get a quick shot at the DE while releasing to the second level to slow him up slightly and take a little heat off the QB without messing up the dive read.a hard charging DE can kill a QB under center.obviously other ways to mess with the DE but i'm going to try and run zone read pitch and gun veer pitch at him so he won't know whether we are coming or going.Tiger i had my share of concussions running this under center in my old days. that's why i'm a little senile now.hoping to save my QB's from my fate.

Good for you!!!

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE