Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Hey Coaches, Ihave been selected to DC the KIWANIS High School Football All-Star Bowll game.The Team we will be facing plays the Triple Option.How do i simplify a defense in a short period of time? my email is jrogersjdk@comcast.net Listen i must tell you something Thanks so much Mr.Bill Mountjoy for all of your Help!
You are more than welcome. Others who wish to opine need this info:
Wishbone? SB Veer? I-Veer? Flexbone? ETC.
EXACT formations (& variations)? RANK the biggest THREATS in the backfield (who do you need to stop, who do you WANT to carry, ETC)? What defense do you wish to BASE out of?
People really need to know ALL of that before coming up with defensive game plan!
Thanks for Responding, I think it's the I-Veer and i'm a 4-2-5 Guy but i've used a 3-5-3 in the past in shut them out. The Ends & Nose have Dive- the Will & SS have pitch & sometimes a change up to QB, Bandit & Rover has QB unless change up call. Mike has Dive,Reads FB to QB. corners #1 & FS Free Alley QB to Pitch Tell me what you think thanks
I visited Notre Dame (Ara Parseghian's D-Staff) in 1974 to get the DETAILS on"OKIE-DOG-PINCH", & have used it ever since.
In all the posts I've seen on this site - no one has it exactly as ND played it. If anyone is interested in the MORE DETAILS - phone me at 804-378-0116 (from 10 AM thru 9 PM/EASTERN).
I have the complete defense (with adjustments) from Notre Dame's Game Plans vs. ALABAMA (& Bear Bryant). It CAN be adjusted to motion out of the backfield, & it CAN be adjusted to 2 back sets (by running it on ONE side, & playing base 5-2 on the other), but it is (of course) best vs. FULL BACKFIELDS (TE or SE's do not matter at all).
In CASE diagram shifts - both E's, T's, & Nose are HEAD UP:
Both Safeties shoot for hip of near back. Force "squeeze contain" D gap/pass rush. NO pass resp.
Both E's crash inside off hip of OT's.
Both T's crash inside off hip of OG's.
Both LBers key Near HB or TB (if he goes to YOUR side - MIRROR him; if he goes to opposite side of Center - fill away between Nose & pinching DT). Cover the HB's M/MN on pass.
Nose = 2 Gap player (both A Gaps).
Both Corners M/M on TE's (or split end if one or both split out).
ND knocked Bear Bryant out of the National Championship in 1975 with this. EQUALLY good vs Full Wishbone, Power I, Full Stack I, & full T backfield.
PS: Bama tried motioning a HB out of the backfield in desperation (late in the game). ND's ADJUSTMENT was: The DB on the TE goes with the motion back. The 30 tech. ILB on the side the back motions to stacks behind the 4 tech. & covers the TE if he releases (so you do NOT "deplete the box"). With the enormous pressure - it is still just as hard to run OR pass on.
Most option teams rely on outside-in blocking. The Dive blocking is a given, they are concerned with the 4 defensive personnel outside to make the option viable. Flexbone (Airforce O) will have similar requirements. Like Bill, I suspect they will have at least one SE to force the Corner or FS to come over the top and cover. You cant ignore that. They will also use the Midline to a great degree. Key to beating an option team is not to get caught chasing the ball. Your ISB have got to get to the outside (Look for a block from the guards or lmolos) DT have got to fill that Dive. Disciplined defensive football, force them to make every block, every play.
The ODP diagrammed is a good way to start
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If it counts for anything we have found the ODP to be very good against the option especially full house etc. The only time we have had problems was vs. an I option team whose TE absolutley thrashed our C gap player all night. They did go on to be undefeated and win a state championship, so I think it might have been a personell issue rather than a problem with the scheme.
Greenough: One big coaching point for the DE who has the C gap is: If the TE has a split of less than 2 ft. - let him block down first then crash off his butt. If the split is bigger than 2 ft - crash in front of him off the hip of the Offensive Tackle.
NOTE: If TE blocks DE - Corner aligned to cover TE should make the tackle AT the LOS *("ROBBER" style run support)!
These two thoughts will solve the problem you mentioned.
Great ideas. Don't try to reinvent the wheel with your guys, put them in a solid base to stop the option. Iowa vs GT this season, if that Mike Linebacker can hammer the dive from a 4-3 defense you force either QB keep or a pitch. Fill up the gaps, defeat blocks, keep it simple!
I go on a few different sites and people are wanting to "learn" Iowa magical scheme.
There was no magic. Just fundamentals, thats it. They had their assignments and played them all game. thats it.
When you have the bodies like Iowa had, GT's oline could do nothing to move them out of the way so they could climb up to the backers.
My advice to toget in a mirrored front so they can't outflank you, out shift you, out motion you, etc... Don't play shaded fronts as they will kill you with TE trade, unbalanced and DT. They outnumber you at the point of attack and hope you overshift, flip/flop, go corners over, backer over or something like that so they can confuse your kids or run counter away. We play 5335 or 6446 with the two ILB's stacked over the center. Its a 51 look and our two OLB's are outside the wings or in a 9 if there is a TE. Cover 1 behind. Biltz the motion adjust with the FS and Hammer the gaps and play option responsibilites all game.
If you like the 2 high safety look, Read Bud Wilkinson's stuff. Played a 54 with 2 inverting safeties. he always had the extra player to the option side and no ne had to adjust to anything else. ODP is just a 7-box which is pretty damned close to Bud's 54 with the corners back, Bud's had the corners up on the receivers and the safeties back and they inverted with flow. Just a 52 Umbrella. YO ucan easily incorporate this into your 43 look.
Play M/M Cover 1 football, invert one safety if you run a 2 high look and be balanced up front, teach the kids their gap responsibility and rep the crap out of the offense without a ball. Dive, Qb, and Option are tackled every play all week.
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If I recall correctly the FB in Navy's offense had an absolute field day against Notre Dame. The Irish were not able to slow his progress at all and, once the FB starts burning yards, you're wide open to the option. A decent option team does not care one way or the other about how they get their yards. A Wishbone or Flexbone is predicated on the belief that every play is a touchdown. An Option Coach has to be happy with a dive getting 4 or 5 yards a pop because he knows in his mind that at any given moment that play will pop. Similarly he knows that the dive will set up the option regardless of yards gained. There is a Coach here in Illinois that runs the Flexbone/Wishbone and he absolutely loves to toy with the 1 and 3 techs. Once he elicits the "Pavlovian Response" bang, here comes the option.
Last 3 seasons.
2008 Loss Third Round of playoffs 2009 Won State Title 2010 Lost Title game by 6 points (Best title game of the season IMHO)
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