Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Basic zone-read option play: QB reads the LE, decides not to hand off to the RB going right, keeps it, runs left, and then pitches it!? To who?? The slot reciever!!
Of the snap of the ball the slot reciever takes two steps back, waits to get into pitch relation with the QB, and then becomes the pitch man. Very cool.
I had never seen anything like this until film this week. Anyone else?
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Post by Coach J Campbell on Oct 26, 2008 18:21:23 GMT
Coach this is a big part of our offense from the gun and from underneath the center. Whenever you use a slotted player and he turns into a pitch man I call it a cowboy technique. Whenever you use this particular technique the QB reads the invert aligned over the slotted player for pitch or keep. Coach CAmpbell
There is a high school coach from Illinois that goes to a few clinics that I have seen that uses this a ton. He will do the zone read and then tag either a bubble pass or a receiver screen route. The Quarterback instead of pitching will just throw to the receiver which makes it super hard for the defender over the #2 to do anything effectively. It's a great play if your quarterback can throw on the run. For you guys that run this play with the pitch, what splits do you use with your receivers?
This would be the formation I would most likely run it out of. I saw Oregon State run it a couple times. That backwards bubble pass that cost them like 10 yards. Yeah that was the play. It did work once for 7 yards though that I saw. We'd Read the End on the right. Most guys run Zone at him, which the Illinois coach did as well.
We don't run zone so we'd either down block it or pull a lineman depending on where our Guard is lined up. We sometimes flip the guards and tackles. The pulling lineman will either kickout opposite end or lead through B or C Gap. Sometimes Wham block the Nose.
After the read if we called a bubble our #1 will stalk block the corner and #2 runs a bubble. If we called a stop route the #1 will take 2 hard steps forward and then come back behind the line and look for the ball while our #2 receiver goes straight to the corner to block him either way.
The quarterback will attack around the corner and look to outsidebacker/pitch key. He then will either run or throw the appropiate receiver.
The Illinois coach does it quite often to the trips side, I would have to find the notes to see how he does it.
Steve Rampy at Blue Valley HS in Kansas also utilizes a bubble screen as their "pitch" option when running the zone read. I believe they throw the bubble about 10% of the time when the QB pulls the football. If the pull is to the trips side, #2 runs the bubble. If the defender respects the bubble and widens, it opens a lane for the QB to keep the football, if he plays QB, #2 gets the ball. The bubble sometimes turns out to be a lateral in the game footage I've seen.
Dave Hartman
CYFL Coach
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We've been doing this for a while. We get to the pitch in a variety of ways from a variety of formations, but this is one our favorites. I spoke at the Glazier Clinic in Baltimore last year and my powerpoint is in their online stuff (it should also have some video clips in the powerpoint). This method of getting to the pitch is included.