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.
While watching a state championship game, a team played a 44 defense-cover 3. When the ball was run to a side or the qb rolled pass the OT. the secondary rolled up. The playside cb went up for the run or qb, the fs has outside 1/3, the back side cb had deep middle and the back side lb checked reverse/throwback. granted they had superior athletes, but has anyone run this successfully? They ran it about 30% of the time. Thanks
This sounds like rotation to me. We used to run this coverage in the 70's and 80's. The defense can rotate in one of two ways: first, the defense can predetermine the rotation. By this I mean that the secondary will know, before the snap, which way it will rotate. The second way has the secondary will rotate based on a key (meaning ball or a specific player-TB, FB, etc.).
The way you describe this coverage is correct except that the backside OLB is more of a backside curl player. If the defense is rotating one way, the chances of the ball being thrown deep the other way are slim.
When we ran this coverage, we would stunt an OLB and play this coverage behind it. We viewed it as a run coverage.