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.
We are wanting to basically rewrite our playbook. We went from being an I offense for about 15 years to gun option about 3-4 years ago. In that process we sort of picked things we liked from lots of different offenses and adapted them to fit into what we were running. While we have some great plays i think that we have gotten away from having a system and now we just have a bunch of really good plays with no continuity. Just wondering what others do when writing up a playbook, especially from an option standpoint. Do you just put in your plays, or do you say Ok, here's this play, if the defense does this we are going to do this to counter it. Do you have all your checks and adjustments written into your book or just in your head? Also looking for what some of those adjustments might be.
I tend to put my playbooks together in packages. For instance I go through our option game followed by our power game and then into our fly sweep package. I start each section with the "Base" play and work my way off of that with counters and other compliments. I am a firm believer in having a "system" so that there's some organization in thought process and some linear teaching with the system. It also helps me when I'm calling plays. I don't put in all my checks/adjustments, etc. You never know where your books will end up, and frankly, it is not that important for the overview of the offense.
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.
I believe in the old Paul Brown theory of having players write their OWN playbooks from chalk talks. Position coaches take them up & check periodically to make sure they get it right (& even give written tests on assignments).. Players LEARN much quicker than if you give them a typed playbook.
PAUL BROWN TEACHING THEORIES:
"A GREAT TEACHER MAKES LEARNING SIMPLE"!!
LAWS OF LEARNING: IN ORDER FOR A PLAYER TO LEARN A PLAY, THE COACH MUST HAVE THE PLAYERS:
1. "SEE IT": SHOW IT ON FILM, AND/OR DEMONSTRATE ON THE FIELD. 2. "HEAR IT": PRESENT IT AT TEAM MEETING 3. "WRITE IT": HAVE THE PLAYERS WRITE IT DOWN 4. "DO IT": HAVE THE PLAYERS REP IT OVER & OVER