Pin & Pull

Milt Tenopir, former long-time o-line coach at Nebraska, utilized the terms "pin" and "pull and overtake" in describing blocks within their zone scheme. I've seen a couple of Coach Tenopir's tapes from several years ago, but they were not exactly the best quality video. Send me a private message coach and I'll see if I can get something together for you.

Dave Hartman
CYFL Coach

Thanks for the help Guys. I was told that Colorado was one of the innovators for this idea. They called it a "Horn" block. It seems simple enough at first, but it really changes some of the basic "Ace", "Duece", "Trey" calls. It seems that at certain times, line calls would have to be passed down thw line farther. For example, Say you have a TE right set and are looking at running an IZ to the right.


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With a 3 tech a 9 tech and LBers in a 10 and a 50 tech, your TE would make a "Trey" call to get help from his Tackle and would zone block the 9 tech and the 50 tech LB.
The Guard would give an "Ace Ram" (right) call asking for help from the Center to Zone block the 3 tech and the 10 LB.
The BS Guard will have to take the Nose(difficult block) some will have him cut the nose.

-----Now lets take a look at this pin and pull tech------

The TE could not call a "Trey" because the Tackle would be down blocking on the 3 tech. He would have to call "Base"
As stated previously, the Tackle would have to make a "Duece Fred" call asking for the guard to fold to the outside (Horn block) onto the 50 tech LB.
Now the Center (if he is facing a BS 1 tech) would have to call a "Lion Wilma" asking the BS guard to fold to the inside onto the 10 tech LB.
This would give a double fold block.

IS THIS RIGHT?
Seems awfully complex.
Any thoughts?

Coach Z

As Bill will tell you I am a big fan of what Colorado called it's 8/9 Slant. They lined their guards up deeper, almost even with the QB. The tape Bill [Oneback[ mentioned will help you alot if you are planning to install this method.

Zuck

Counter & Power (the way the NY Giants run it) GREAT vs. "Bear". Inside Zone not as good vs. "Bear"!

I can spend time describing this if you PHONE me: (804-378-0116) up to 10 PM/EDT. Too much to type!

PS: Watching Giants vs. Vikings right now - Giants are doing a good job on the "pin & pull" with their RB - Ward!

Tape a NY GIANTS game. They run Power, Counter, Pin & Pull (slightly tighter aiming point for RB than Colts did), & Inside Zone plays. Also some Lead-Draw. They have the best RUNNING game in NFL!