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.
I know that you play against Clovis East every year in California. The next two years we too will face a similar powerful team that runs the Double Tight, Double Wing. I have began looking online for ideas on how to defend against such a "different" style of offense. Any ideas or thoughts on schemes, reads, ideas for practice, etc. that you could provide would be awesome. You can never start too early to prepare for an opponent and this is one win we would really like to beat! Thanks in advance to any coaches that respond.
If anyone else has any ideas on how to stop the Double Wing I would love to hear some ideas. Please respond! I am always intesrested in hearing quality ideas...
It 's a really tough offense when it is run well, called well by the coaches, and the team has the athletes to do it all. My best advice would probably be an odd front with the OT's covered. Jump into a 6 from time to time. Teach and preach your keys. Be careful when watching film to see if they give false line keys. Bottom line is you have to win, or at the very least "tie" on the line of scrimmage. Your players have to be fundamentally sound and be willing to sacrifice themselves by taking a blocker on head-up in the hole. Can't be pretty, just smart and sound.
Ryan Kelly
Offensive Coordinator
Austin High School
Austin, MN
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THE Double Wing is good for masking ones deficiencies in several areas. However, just because someone runs a DW, doesn't mean they are necessarily deficient. If they have the horses in place they can run over you like a well oiled Oklahoma 70's era Wishbone.
JR has it right. I'll add that you cant be predictable play after play. I teach my LB's to cross key in other words if the WB on your side goes away the other WB might be coming, read first then flow. Guards are another key or key breaker. A well run DW will, from time to time, false pull a guard or guards. That can send a LB or two in the wrong direction. Disciplined play is KEY to facing any misdirection based offense. Know what your role is and play it like you wrote the text book. The best advice I can give is to make sure your setting the edge HARD! Depending on your front, either a DE or OSLB has got to maintain that mantra. Watch for traps and pulls, know how to deflect them but never get turned or driven off the edge.
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