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 guys, we are looking at implementing a spread offense at our school. I have a couple questions about qb/rb footwork and mechanics out of certain plays. We want to keep the footwork mostly the same so we do not tip off any plays. Some of the schemes we are looking at are the zone read, counter read, trap read, midline, veer, inverted veer, midline trap, and iso read. Can we keep the same footwork for all of these types of plays. If so, we would love some suggestions.
It is possible to keep the same footwork for most of those plays if you run a double option (QB and 1 RB only) instead of a true triple in my opinion. My reason for saying this is with a triple you will have very different aiming points for the POA after the initial read. The Midline, Veer, Zone, and Iso can all be ran with close enough footwork that the defense may not be able to tell.
Some plays by nature will be slightly different. The inverted veer is completely different from the veer in that the path of the RB is north/south with the QB going more east/west while the inverted veer is the opposite, therefore you can't have the same footwork for those two plays.
IMO, don't worry about making every single play look the same, but focus more on being able to attack at two different places with the same footwork (see: inside zone / outside zone backfield actions).
Nick Medinger Head Coach C.C. Griffin Middle School
Games are won during the season, Championships are won in the off-season.
I agree with Newt. These plays attack so quickly that you have to not tip them via alignment...defense will not pick up footwork nuances that well. If your footwork and timing are greatly different, then ok, but I'm guessing they are not that far off.
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.