Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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Just wondering what are your thoughts on the numbering system . I have been under coaches who have done both on giving a back a specific area to run . What are the advantages & disadvantages of both ways of numbering?
Post by Coach Campbell on Feb 14, 2017 19:53:02 GMT
Coach I use to use a numbering system which designated who was going to get the ball, the direction and blocking scheme. Since we are a hurry up and snap the ball I us codes and send in plays verbally from the sideline. Coach Campbell
Post by Coach Campbell on Dec 24, 2017 4:58:43 GMT
Diego Ramirez
In my opinion a good offensive line should understand how to block both schemes in order to have a successful balanced attack. Our main offense is a Slot-T offense which is primarily a man block scheme. The man block scheme works best with this offense because we use a variation of dives based on what hole we want to attack. A zone scheme with the Slot-T is applied in our toss plays, buck sweeps, and our counters, but with a somewhat of a man block in a what-if situation. Their blocks will be predetermined based on line calls and then adjusted during the actual play if they need to improvise. When we do get into our 10 or 20 personnel out of gun formations, which is at about 25% of the time, then we do use a zone scheme to help with our counters, jet sweeps, and read plays.
I personally prefer the man block scheme because I think it helps our style of play the best. In our offense every defender is accounted for because of this blocking technique. This allows us to attack quickly with our dives and not have to worry about having too many one on one battles between our ball carrier and the defender. In our offense the ball carrier shouldn't have to worry about making a move on someone until they've passed the second level of the defense, as long as it is blocked correctly. This does tend to make our offense slightly one dimensional because there is no doubt in what we're going to do, everyone knows what's coming, we just expect our guys to make the blocks. As an assistant coach this is the format we follow because that's how the head coach wants it. When I do become a head coach I will use a balanced attack with both the Slot-T and Gun formations. In our current offense we don't throw the ball enough to be effective and our passing plays all come out of bootlegs. I would like to combine our style of play from under center into gun and pistol formations to expand our offensive attack, thus applying both zone and man block schemes to my offense.
I was looking back on this question & I saw it was confusing. So, what I am asking is do you number the gap or the linemen? Like 2 hole between C & G or do you number the guard as the 2 hole? Thanks
Post by Coach Campbell on Jun 22, 2020 20:07:54 GMT
I have a strong preference for zone blocking schemes over man as I find that they offer multiple advantages when compared with a man blocking scheme:
Teaching: Easier to teach the play concept and then apply the rules to specific fronts, rather than memorizing defense fronts.
Flexibility: If our OL applies rules and communicates, we win from a scheme perspective. We have many ways to block a front.
Gap Sound: If we account for the 6 or 7 offensive gaps with our scheme, we should be able to block any front and any blitz.
Creates double teams: We are always trying to find double teams and zone blocking allows us to maximize zone combos to handle down linemen and create movement.
75% of our run game is inside and outside zone so I have a real strong preference here. We work on it, we drill it. Our fundamental drills are based on base get off with the hands on the DL right now with inside help from a push step strike technique from the uncovered OL athlete. Definitely would not be able to control the front this way WITHOUT the use of extended hands so that rule change is absolutely crucial to this scheme. For me the biggest benefits are that we CREATE double team and get to drill that work which is the same no matter who's working together, TE&T, G&T, C&G's, Trio Calls, whatever it's all just double team principles and also the flexibility to block any front. I really preach to our OL athletes that they can combo call this front up any way they want. If we want to just call it solid and go across the board (everybody is on a man block) we could. Now, they usually buy into the idea that this is WAY harder and start to call for combinations that give them the best chance of moving the down lineman and meeting the backer. We also incorporate the same basic principles in reverse on our gap scheme stuff (frontside down blocks are just like the backside of inside zone for us) and then throw in a little extra flavor with pullers and maybe a backside pick and hinge for kicks. Again, it allows us to be gap sound at the point of attack and communicate a plan to deal with a front.
I can only think of really 2 times where we may use pure man blocking schemes:
1) In scout team when we KNOW the front we're gonna get from our own defense
2) In lower levels where we're only going to see a few fronts and we see large skill disparity.