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.
Hey Mr. Mountjoy, We just finish Spring football & i threw out cover 3 & used cover 1 man free, & "ROBBER" it worked great. I would really appreciate a copy of your Cover 2 stuff from the 4-2-5 my email address is jrogersjdk@comcast.net Thanks Coach Rogers
You have to consider why teams are spreading you out though. Cover 1 often looks great at 7 on 7, but can your opponent run the ball against six in the box? Are they running option looks? You can get in big touble against RB screens, too. You have to consider how good your front four are.
I have seen some very good teams play alot of one and be successful until they get deep in the playoffs and they see a team with equal talent. Then one of two or both things happen: 1. The team runs off their wide receivers and hit huge run creases down the seams on qb counters, and well blocked zone schemes, and shovel power passes. 2. Their unstoppable four man rush in the regular season becomes neutralized and your secondary is covering forever and start to get picked apart by man beaters.
I think robber is a great change up especially if you play alot of 1 or 3. I think one is great in blitz and some red zone situations, but if you are going to live in 1, i really think that you better be superior, far superiour up front.
Cover 3 sounds conservative, but you can really run alot of games in with zone fire and create more pressure if you need it and still keep the ball in front. Conversely, you become very limited in blitz packages agaist the spread from cover 1 in my opinion.
Cover 1 with the Catch tech gives you 11 to play the run. No one is being run off. Rocket, hammer, quick, swing, even slip screens are picked up very easily because people are NOT being run off.
Cover 1 is not a 7-7 coverage, thats just plain old stupid.
In our neck of the woods we see more and more M/M than zone the farther you move into the playoffs. Most playoff teams we play and see play straight man or Cover 1 when it comes down to it. We are in PA and power football is still #1 in November and December in all 4 divisions. Crowd the box and make the QB throw under heavy pressure to covered/roughed up receivers. To boot.... the more teams spread us out the more we play Cover 1 over our other coverage (Robber).
For us... zones opened holes to be gashed and our kids play soft.
We are slow, small and white. We lift all year and work our techniques all spring long from Freshman to varsity. If we can play Man anyone can. Just have to bag the "10 coverage philosophy" so you can rep the crap out of it. We play 2-3 coverages and thats it AND they are all called on the field be the FS depending on the set or if an overload or max blitz is called.
Coach, can you explain "catch" tech? I agree with you, we are not terribly athletic, but we rep man cover and man free every day and we are better with it than we ever were in zone.
Most schemes work if they are well taught and players execute. And I am not saying that there isn't a place for cover 1. I just feel like its hard to live in. I didn't say it was just a seven on seven coverage, I just don't feel like you can live with six in the box against the spread and tell your outside guys to play man to man on a wr and play up on the run-that sounds just plain stupid to me. I am not going to give my guys two completely conflicting jobs at the same time. That's just plain unsound teaching.
We are a well balanced team and when we are good we can threaten you vertically. If you want to cover up all of our WRs-fine with us. We will run the inside zone till the cows come home. You want to use the catch technique. Fine with us, too. It makes it alot easier for our B-Ball type WRs to get on your little guys and finish them into the ground. Get those ilb's flowing too fast and we'll throw in the qb counter where we now out number you in the box for sure. Get those outside guys flowing inside too fast, we'll pull the ball and the WRs will studder step and all four will be vert agaist your FS. Good luck.
You can play alot of 1, but like I said you better be real good up front.
Your kids played soft in zone, that's because of a lack of emphasis on being physical in a zone. You'll execute what you emphasize, so green enough that's why you are playing better in man free. You are practicing it everyday. And if you are comfortable with it and believe in it, so will your kids and you'll probably be fine most of the time.
Zone does not equal soft or not aggressive. That's faulty reasoning. Bob Sanders was soft and passive. Please!