Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Post by New MD Youth Coach on Jul 3, 2008 13:00:32 GMT
Good afternoon coaches!
Everyone please excuse my ignorance as I am new to the youth coaching scene. But, how do you explain the term inside-out pursuit in reference to LB's? Also when someone says, "Squeeze the gap", what do they mean by squeeze?
Inside out pursuit basically means teaching your defenders to play behind the ball and not overrun it, giving away cutback lanes. If the ball carrier was running outside to your defensive left, your linebackers want to pursue, "inside out" attacking the ball carriers inside shoulder and forcing him to run into the force player. If they ran to his outside shoulder and he cut back they would give away the running lane.
Obviously your force player to that side would attack the ball carrier on his outside shoulder and turn the play back in.
Squeezing the gap means knocking the blocker back into the hole and using his body to restrict the running lane. If your right defensive end was getting a kickout or turnout block from the Offensive left tackle he would attempt to knock the tackle back and use the blockers body to close B gap while defending C gap himself.
I don't agree with your assesment, for example the will backer has responsibility for most cut backs run to the rip side. Squeeze the hole means just that, for an example, the tackle who is in a 4 tech would squeeze the hole (b gap as he steps into the hole) to take on the runner on the ISV, if he can throw the OLM into the hole great, but most OLM's are going to beat him as they veer release to the backer.
At any rate, go with what you know coach, that is what I always do. Just because we differ doesn't mean your way is wrong.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
I think we're talking about two different plays here. I'm referring to something like a weakside iso play run at the B gap. The Tackle would likely try to base block the DE trying to widen him. In that instance we would ask our DE to knock the Tackle back and use the Tackle's body to squeeze or close the intended running lane in B gap while keeping his outside arm and leg free to play C gap if the ball carrier bounces outside. We expect the inside linebacker to come fill and make that play in B gap but we want our DE to help him by reducing the size of the B gap if possible. This is probably just a difference in terminology, but we actually tell our DE in that instance to "squeeze B gap." We use this technique when we are on the front side of plays against things like base and down blocks, not to take away cutback lanes. We try to take away cutback lanes by chasing with the backside DE and letting our outside backer play things like boot and reverse.
Against ISV we play it exactly as you have described, we would try to get our hands on the Tackle if possible and turn his shoulders so the linebacker can scrape to the quarterback but our responsibility is to bend down inside and take away the dive.
Post by New MD Youth Coach on Jul 4, 2008 22:20:23 GMT
Coaches, Coaches.......English, LOL. j/k. Thank you very much, I think I have a better understanding now. But I'm still learning some of the terminology, what is "rip" (the rip side) and ISV?
"Rip" in this instance is usually a call made by the defense to identify the strong side of the offensive formation, so they would call either rip for strong right or liz for strong left. Other teams use other words but there is generally a word that begins with "r" and a word that begins with "l", such as roger/louie or ringo/lucky, ect. Some teams identify the strength based on the TE's alignment while others identify strength to whichever side has more receivers.
ISV is inside veer, which is a dive option scheme. OSV would be outside veer.
THANKS FOR YOUR FURTHER EXPLANATION OF WHAT YOU MEANT. I'm sure the new coach will appreciate your explanation of "Rip" and "Liz". In the passing alignments we refer to the side with the most receivers as the FRONT SIDE and the least receivers as the BACK SIDE. Most of your older coaches will use this terminology today.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
In conventional formations, we always identify the strength as the TE side. But in the spread formations of today that have no TE for the most part, like my 3 x 2 for example, the trips side would be identified as our strength or front side, and the twins side as the backside or weak side.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE