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.
If you've seen a term used elsewhere on this board or anywhere else for that matter, please post it here and allow the coaches who frequent the jcfb board, along with Coach Campbell and Coach Lansdell, to provide a definition for the term in question.
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An "Over" defensive front is one that aligns the defensive line towards the tight end side of the offensive formation.
An "Under" defensive front aligns the defensive line away from the tight end side of the formation.
A "1 Gap" defender is responsible for a single gap. The defender could be aligned in a shade technique or if aligned directly over an offensive lineman he would be slanting towards the gap he's responsible for.
A "2 Gap" defender is responsible for two gaps on either side of him. This defender will usually be aligned "head up" or directly over the offensive lineman across from him. A "2 Gap" defender must read and react to the offensive lineman's block in order to defend the correct gap based on the type of block used.
"Gap Control" defenses are very commonly used throughout all levels of football. A "Gap Control" defense does exactly that, it assigns gap responsibilities to each defender. It is important to note that these gaps are not static in that they move, expand and contract along with each play.
Coaches, please feel free to add to or better clarify these wherever you see the need to do so. Coach C. - thanks for the post. Hopefully this will be somewhat helpful in beginning to explain what these terms mean. Please feel free to ask for more detailed explanations if you like.
Dave Hartman CYFL Coach
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
Thanks for answers. Those helped. Few more questions on the 1 and 2 gap.
These terms apply mostly to d-lineman? Or linebackers as well? Not to secondary though right?
Is it usually the same for all defenders or for position? Will a whole d-line always be 1 or 2 gap, or will it vary for each defender, same question about the linebacker's gaps.
Generally speaking linebackers as well as d-linemen can be 2 gap players in the sense that their run responsibilities are usually defined as a run to or away from them which will determine which gap(s) they've got to close down. A called slant, dog or stunt will usually result in their being responsible for only a single gap. Secondary defenders playing run support will usually either have force responsibility, D gap responsibility or cutback responsibility depending on their alignment, the coverage they're playing and where the ball is run. And yes coach, although I'd say my answers are pretty standard, there's no real limit as to the number of variations you might see depending on the defense being run and the philosophy of the coach running it. The late Fritz Shurmur (former Green Bay DC) wrote a great book for learning defensive concepts called Coaching Team Defense. I'd highly recommend it to anyone, especially to new coaches and those coaching at the youth level. Thanks again for your post Coach C. here on the youth forum.
Dave Hartman CYFL Coach
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."