Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
This manual provides you with the full offensive line, receiver, and quarterback mechanics for installing each offensive play presented. Coach Campbell has left no stone unturned for implementing today’s Pistol Offense into your program.
In teaching LBers at the youth level coach, all I try to teach them is to know what their gap responsibility is, to read flow (Stay, Slow, Scrape, Speed) and to shuffle two steps laterally when the play is away before pursuing the football in order to put them into position to play a counter, boot or reverse. I do teach our "spurs" (inverts in a 3-5-3) to read the EMOL to the far back but this is the only type of key I try to utilize.
At the upper levels of the game, keys are obviously very important, but, I've found them to be very unreliable at the youth level, primarily because of the inconsistency of play on the offensive side of the ball. Just my way of thinking. Others may have had better experiences trying to rely on keys at the youth level.
Dave Hartman
CYFL Coach
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
If facing a Wing-T or similar offense, I agree 100% with Coach Mountjoy. Against many youth offenses though, reading the guards will not prove to be as reliable as one would hope based on the coaching they receive in carrying out their blocks. It is difficult to teach a player to react based on one thing knowing that in reality he may never see it. That's why I prefer to pretty much just read flow only at the youth level. Just my opinion though.
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."