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.
Coach, we are graduating a very good QB and RB as well as most of our other skill guys, returning all but 1 of our linemen. We are a very small school, graduating about 10-20 boys per grade total. We do not really have a kid on the team that can throw worth a darn. We have been a shotgun spread option team that has been about 70% run oriented but we were able to throw the ball very well in games when we wanted to. We have run some flexbone option as well. We have 2 athletes coming back that we are considering putting in the backfield together and staying with what we have been running. Have also thought about going to wildcat or maybe under center and just have our Q be a handoff machine. Just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on the matter. I don't think we have a kid who could be an under center option kind of QB and certainly not enough backs to run any type of full house backfield. Other than cut bait and find a different job, any suggestions?
I have a couple of good things you might be interested in--one is an updated single-wing, another is a split-back fly system which is pretty good. Have you looked into some Wing-T? If you want, send me your email and I can get those playbooks your way.
Ryan Kelly
Offensive Coordinator
Austin High School
Austin, MN
There is nothing that will show a man's true character like the 2 yard line.
Post by Coach Campbell on Nov 17, 2009 19:05:08 GMT
Coach a thought along with the things you've mentioned how about adding the Pistol. Tell is your guy a competitor. Look forward to visiting about this further. Coach CAmpbell
I have Jerry's Pistol material and I see it as a doable thing for those who dont want to go full shotgun. You can run anything you want from it Single back, Two Backs Power, Counters. My OC was not willing to try it at all but I got more than enough material from Jerry's manual to run a simplified version for Junior Ball.
Since most of them already know the Shoutgun Spread the Pistol should be easy. You have time to develop a functional QB who can hit the short and intermediate passes. They dont have to look pretty just be effective. Your not looking for 2000 yards from his arm just enough to keep the defense off the LOS.
In other words dont throw the baby out with the bath water. A lot easier to teach one or two kids to throw the rock a few times per game than it is to teach all the kids a new offense.
JMHO
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We had thought about the pistol as well, I liked that you don't give as many pre snap tendencies away, the kid we are looking at for the Q is a very good athlete, really a basketball/hockey kid that we talked into playing football for this past season. He was a very good corner for us and played one of our slots on offense. Physically he could probably play an option Q spot, I just don't know how he'd take getting hit 50 times a game. He is a senior and a competitor though. We have a kid coming up that is a freshman that I think eventually will be good, I just don't know if he has the physical ability to play varsity right now. Not sure if we want to throw him to the dogs this early, although the last kid we did that to ended up being the best QB we've had in years.