Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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From an pass heavy offensive coordinator view, what are some advantages when a defense runs a bump coverage jamming receivers on the line? What are some disadvantages?
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. --Vince Lombardi
One of the advantages we have seen in bump is that if your receivers are more physical they can probably win at the LOS. The Other thing we have noticed is that the teams in our league that play bump and run usually have their safety's involved in other parts of the defense which will allow for a big play if you can beat the bump and run corner.
A couple of the disadvantages we have seen is that you get in troulbe during timing routes or when you are throwing to an area/zone. The bump defender can disrupt timing or force the reciever out of the specified zone you want to attack.
The stuff I just told youis pretty elementary but it is stuff we have had to deal with against bump and run. We try to flood a lot of zones in our passing game so teams that try to bump us at the line can sometimes have success slowing us down!
To us, it depends what type of technique the corner is using. If he is playing an inside technique, he opens himself up to a quick fade. If he's outside, he's probably playing a hard corner, and a skinny post can be a big play. We have been pretty weak at wr, so bump coverage gives us great fits. Luckily, we haven't seen it much.
Corners with speed, in my opinion, should play lots of bump. It can really take an opposing team's wr out of the game. With that established early, you can drop him off and get him involved in some of the run game.
Cover 1 bump and run. We look to throw the fade and corner route and we look to throw the ball to the sideline area.
Traditional Cover 2. We look to throw the seam pattern and we look to hit the sweet spots in the zone. This is typically near the sideline as well after an inside release.
Honestly, I enjoy facing bump and run coverage. But, if you live and die by it, your kids will get better at it, and your team will benefit.
Lou Cella
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
Coaches, IMO, teaching a receiver to get off the jam is the hardest thing he will have to contend with, bar none, if the CB knows how to really play the technique. There is a big difference between bump and run and turn and run. Playing rolled up hard corner with outside leverage is not bump and run to me, thats reach and chase, because it is too easy for a WR to escape inside. Bump and run to me is rolled up hard with inside leverage, mirror the receiver and when he takes the first step downhill, jam the stuffing out of him! With proper technique execution it is going to be awfully hard for that receiver to figure in the QB's throwing plan for that play, as the good jam has destroyed the timing and if both corners execute, it will result in forcing the QB to make a checkdown type throw. One man's opinion.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Against a pass heavy team, I love to run press coverage on the receivers on the LOS. It's not as good, IMO, against a WR in a flanker alignment because he has room to throw some moves on the DB. I think one of the greatest advantages of the bump is it throws off the timing of the short game. Also, I love making a receiver take two or three steps on the LOS instead of downfield at the start of his route.
I feel the major disadvantages of press coverage are 1) you have no secondary force/contain player against the run because your corner is completely focused on the WR, 2) the fade stop route is completely impossible to defend unless your corner is not able to run with the receiver on the fade, in which case he happens to be able to play the route because of his ineptitude or lack of speed 3) WRs that excel in getting off the jam are open immediately (and as a WR coach, we practice this every day using karate blocking techniques to pin the arm and shoulders of the DB and get him on our backs right now!)
I like to use the technique against Bunch or stacked formations because often the pattern development depends on the frontmost receiver getting out and rubbing a defender or clearing a zone, so the longer we can bottle up the pattern development, the longer our D Line has to get to the QB.