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.
Coach, as an ex-QB and long time QB coach, I always teach that the QB is not to take a pounding if he can avoid it. QB's don't grow on trees, and on any option I run the QB's are taught to run to the hash, the numbers, and the boundary. The reason for this is simply to avoid running back into the heart of the defense where they can get crushed. If they run in the manner described they will end up one on one with a CB or safety a large percentage of the time. If you attack with this rule in mind, then you will attack the outside number in response to your question.
J.C.Easton number
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Post by Coach Campbell on Jul 30, 2004 15:42:15 GMT
I teach to attack The inside jersey number of the read, this eliminates the slow play by the defender. I like coach Easton can't afford to have QB's get hurt and by attacking the inside jersey number I haven't lost a QB yet. Our QB this past year signed with Air Force. I want as much outside grass to run on as we can, by running at inside number this gives us this. Coach CAmpbell
Coach Campbell, I think we are both saying , essentially, the same thing. I understood the question to mean if the QB was in space and a secondary guy is making the attack, I want my QB to stay on his outside where he will only be taking that defender on. I take your answer to mean the inside read before he gets in space, am I right on this assumption?
J.C>Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Post by Coach Campbell on Jul 30, 2004 16:35:02 GMT
By the use of counter rotating blocking schemes and the ability to attack the inside jersey number of the defender (Read) we keep the outside perimeter play open and the defense can't string our options out. Coach Easton from one coach to another who have potentialy been around the block a few tiimes, I and Lyle certainly appreciated your obvious experience level that you bring to our site, keep up the great job. Coach CAmpbell
I certainly appreciate being part of the site, and reading yours and Lyle's and all the guys comments, philosophies, schemes, etc. Bill Mountjoys posts from top coaches in the profession that he admires have proved to be very valuable as well. The best thing I really enjoy is the fact that the coaches, one and all, seem to be totally sold out to the fact that the kids come first! Some articulate the fact a little more openly than others, but I can sense the dedication and the rewards we all receive from having the priviledge of working with young folks. Thank you for your kind words.
J.C.Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
I had the priviledge of coaching Carlton McDonald at Raines High School in 1988. He had taken his SAT in his Junior year and made 1150. All he ever wanted to do was fly jets. He was a really good CB and when Fisher heard about him ,we sent film and within a week it was a done deal. He went on to have a stellar career and in his Senior year was the WAC's defensive player of the year. The Air Force only takes the top 2% of it's students for flight training and he didn't make that plateau. He was offered by several NFL teams to be drafted, but said no because of his committment to the Air Force. I saw him and his family on the street in Jacksonville some time later, and low and behold he was flying F-18's, and had attained the rank of Major. In 1997-98 I was helping a friend of mine with his QB's, the best being a kid named Buck Palmer from a little Georgia town named Darien, Ga. Coach Deberry signed him also and he had a nice career at the Academy. If your ever up watching your last years QB, (what is his name?) ask Coach DeBerry about the two young men I mentioned. I think that is the greatest reward of them all to see former players be successful, not only in football, but in life.
J.C.Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Post by Coach Campbell on Jul 31, 2004 20:39:34 GMT
Garrett Rybak was my Quarterback this past season that signed to play for Air Force. A great kid an a great competitor. We call all our options on the LOS and he was good at keeping us in good plays. Coach CAmpbell
Isn't it the greatest feeling in the world when you have a hand in developing a young man who has the intelligence and the talent level and the proper attitude to lead your team at the QB position, and then go on to the next level? I'll be watching for him, and wishing him the best in the coming four years!
J.C.Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
Thanks TigerOne and CoachCampbell. I also teach Hash - Number - Sideline to our QBs as their path downfield. I should have specified a player that was trying to slow-play the option. We were working in camp and one of our coaches' kids is a college LB and he was slow-playing our option. I always taught to attack the inside #, but worried about the pitch to the tailback being knocked down by the defender's outside arm. I try to stress this when working with the QBs on their pitch technique.
Not to worry about your specifying the slo play, you got the answer you needed and that is what counts. Give 'em the dickens this year! Hope you win them all!
J.C.Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE