The motion and backfield action is hard on the man coverage player to get to his run fit against the wr running the ball. The most famous game that involved a team running the run and shoot offense was one where that team lost. Apr 29, 2015 the run and shoot offense was first developed in the 1960s by glenn tiger ellison from middletown, ohio. The climate of football was filled with wideopen offenses. Jun 10, 2011 as for the run n shoot, its effectiveness was diminished and the race for the record book was over. Not all spread offenses are passfirst, and not all teams that use run and shoot concepts are passfirst, but if youre going to commit to the offense. They also looked to see how many defenders were in the box, and would run if the numbers were favorable running backs in the rns had very good yards per carry averages because they often ran against very soft fronts. The spread is basically a hybrid, more complex version of the run n shoot rns. Lomax alone at the top, lomax passes into the ncaa record books, man with. The spread offense is an offensive scheme in gridiron football that typically places the quarterback in the shotgun formation, and spreads the defense horizontally using three, four, and even fivereceiver sets. As a high school and college coach, mouse davis had been refining the runandshoot football system for more than 25 years when he arrived in texas in the mid1980s to enter pro football. Meyer does not run the wingt from shotgun his offense is not based around series football as those offenses are, he does not run. But when that coach is june jones and when his resignation means that, for the first time in roughly 30 years, no nfl or major college program will be running the famed runandshoot offense that blip on the radar becomes a historically.
The run plays in this offense are inside and outside zone runs. The wake forest demon deacons are lined up in a threereceiver spread package during a 2012 game against boston college. The above clips show some of the key concepts in the shoot, versus various coverages. The run and shoot remains one of the most powerful offenses ever invented, and is well worth studying. Basketball offense grinnell offense, coachs clipboard. Throwing on the run is also a better solution for 12u for both the passer and linemen.
Its not a run n shoot or an air raid, but rather something that more resembles a west coast attack. This is a very quirky kind of grouping of plays in that it utilizes long and complicated passes and also short and simple runs. We ran the program like it was a bigtime program, we had a run and shoot offense in place in elementary school. I believe the run game and throwing on the run will make our play action passing even stronger. Run and shoot series part 1 a simple approach to the.
Split ends in run and shoot were vertical players, running a number of deep passes that were capable of stretching offense vertically. Apr 9, 2018 pistol offense playbook for youth football youtube. Everyone who seriously considers passing offense should study the run and shoot. Offense of the future in the mid 1960s and run and shoot football. The ingenuity and brilliance of this man cannot be understated. Why dont more nfl teams run the run and shoot offense. The streak john jenkinss houston gamblers usfl qb manual a must read. Pass plays often have the qb and wrs reading coverage and adjusting on the fly. For me it meets the contrairian ideas of point of attack unknown until after the. Brilliantly written and eschewing unnecessary jargon and technicality, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of football to help all of us coaches, players, and. Alabama was coached by head coach nick saban and defensive coordinator kirby smart. Jan 19, 2016 mouse davis explains the run and shoot. The run and shoot offense was first developed in the 1960s by glenn tiger ellison from middletown, ohio.
His very popular version of the offense averaged scoring a touchdown every ten plays and once scored 98 points in a single game. My last year of football 1976 i played bantams freshmensophomores, 140lb. The choice package is designed to compliment the go package. Wide open football route conversions double slot, can be called the original flexbone. I have a chapter in the essential smart football on how teams have assimilated run and shoot concepts to todays game. For with our offense mere incompletions do not kill a.
Davis employed ellisons attack and adapted it to the point that his charges were regularly drubbing opponents at levels unseen in football and doing. In 92 neither the lions or the falcons came within 3 games of the playoffs and the lions and bills started to alter their offensive approach. Apr 09, 2018 apr 9, 2018 pistol offense playbook for youth football youtube stay safe and healthy. The ilb is affected by the lateral flow of the backfield action. Coach david arseneault its a run and gun offense with offensive possessions often lasting only five seconds in duration 12 seconds at the most, usually resulting in a 3point shot. He likes to recruit smart, quick athletes who can handle the ball and shoot the outside shot, and who are good decision makers. The pro style offense is an offensive system that uses multiple formations with tight ends, running backs and receivers. He defied the football world by simply observing children playing football. If you love the spread offense and want to learn the latest run pass option, pass concepts, and run schemes from within the spread offense then hit that subscribe button. Mar 19, 2020 if you love the spread offense and want to learn the latest run pass option, pass concepts, and run schemes from within the spread offense then hit that subscribe button. The essential smart football is an examination of footballs most important strategies and ideas, through the lens of the games best coaches, players, and schemes.
Used at every level of the game including professional nfl, cfl, college ncaa, naia, cis, and high school programs across the us and canada, spread. Joe was a fourthgrade kid playing up with older kids, running the offense. I thought i would be contrary using the pass first concepts from the davis run and shoot, but there is a very solid run game included in this offense. The passing revolution john jenkins and the run and shoot. A simple approach to the run and shoot part 1 smart football. The offense likes to run plays based on the defenses weakness. Before mike leach or dana holgorsen, there was john jenkins of runandshoot fame as maybe the original airitout southwest mad scientist other than dutch meyer of tcu, of course. Run and shoot is an spread offense based vertical routes, with or without motion to expose whether the coverage is man or zone.
Looking back at drew hill, runandshoot receiver for oilers. Difference between the run and shoot, air raid and spread. The offense reached its apex in the late 1980s and early 1990s when it was run by the houston oilers with warren moon, the detroit lions with barry sanders, the indianapolis colts and atlanta falcons. The story of mouse davis and the run n shoot offense.
Pistol offense playbook for youth football youtube youth. And im not just referring to spreading with four wide receivers. June joness retirement, and the lasting influence and. Spread offense may also refer to the four corners offense in basketball. Coach al blacks excellent book, coaching runandshoot football harding press, 1991, details how he joined the powerful runandshoot offense of coach darrel mouse davis with a triple option attack. The triple shoot offensehistorical perspective football. First, you have to distinguish between the run and shoot as a specific, delineated system, and the individual run and shoot concepts or routes. The run and shoot offense is an offensive system for american football which emphasizes. Jun 05, 20 identifying every nfl teams base offense. Rbs are mostly used as a pass blocker or the last option to throw to, but can be featured runners in the right situations. June joness retirement, and the lasting influence and likely end. It was conceived by former high school coach glenn tiger ellison and refined and popularized by former portland state offensive coordinator mouse davis. Why you want to simplify the air raid offense communication the play, formation, and snap count discover the easiest way to get everything in to your players so they can play fast how to run gods play the inside zone run scheme finally learn how to stop worrying what the defense is trying to do because you will. The run and shoot offense is run out of spread formations and it.
Gwynnes book filled in for me the offense s prevaldosta and prekentucky history, but what i found most remarkable about the book was its chronicling of the fact that in the early 1980s hal mumme was a division i offensive coordinator utep from 1982 to 1985 who desperately wanted to run a passfirst offense but had no real idea how to. For with our offense mere incompletions do not kill a drive. Not surprisingly, this forced houstons opponents to flow and devote more defenders to that side. This book isnt a collection of plays drawn up in power point and sold because i want to seem cool. Dec 30, 2008 the spread is basically a hybrid, more complex version of the run n shoot rns. An exciting balance between running and passing with lots of dynamic possibilities for the play to change based on the defense. Before mike leach or dana holgorsen, there was john jenkins of run and shoot fame as maybe the original airitout southwest mad scientist other than dutch meyer of tcu, of course.
Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. The houston cougars led by their maverick head coach, john jenkins was at the forefront of college football. The lb plays fast and lateral which puts him on the track of the 2nd puller. Whats the difference between the run n shoot and the. Whats the difference between the run n shoot and the spread. We ran the program like it was a bigtime program, we had a runandshoot offense in place in elementary school. Davis was a high school coach in oregon in the 1970s when he discovered a book by an ohio high school coach, glen tiger ellison, entitled run and shoot football the offense of the future. Brown is a contributing writer for grantland and the editor of the website smart football. The power spread offense old school power football with the new school spread beauty. Glenn tiger ellison is one, if not the, most innovative coach in football history. Run and shoot series part 1 a simple approach to the run and shoot. This is the fan page for a movieinthemaking about the triumphant story of darrel. Mgcst5 also shared a great link to an article called the shootbone by a guy named ligerborn and how he.
The run and gun offense is a further evolved school of thought. The offense he ran at byu has been very influential to a lot of pro offenses since. In 1990, the oilers new coach, jack pardee, installed a version of the run and shoot offense he had used with offensive coordinator mouse davis and quarterback jim kelly when he coached the houston gamblers of the u. Plus i read a ton of football coaching books so i am not easily surprised by a new drill. From roughly 1959 through 1963 he would amass a record of 387 utilizing this new found offensive system. Related to this is the phasing out of motion in the run and shoot that really began with john jenkins at the university of houston. The run and shoot offense is no longer widely used in college or pro football and by 2011, only two division 1 teams ran the run and shoot, hawaii and smu. Sep 11, 2014 by the late 1990s, the pure runandshoot had been taken out of football, done in by a combination of the zone blitz, which ravaged the original davisjones runandshoot pass protection scheme, and the weight of negative sentiment buddy ryan famously referred to the offense as the chuckandduck. The runandshoot was developed by glenn tiger ellison.
I purchased this book to find the roots of the al davis, houston gamblers offense. Mar 28, 2020 the motion and backfield action is hard on the man coverage player to get to his run fit against the wr running the ball. Considering the kind of week were having, the news that the head coach of 02 smu had resigned was a minor blip on the radar. A system designed to spread the field and run or pass based upon your personnel. In this video mouse davis explains the explosive run and shoot choice route along with special tags to the route. Its foundational play was and remains the go concept, which ive previously described. The run and shoot offense is an offensive system for american football which emphasizes receiver motion and onthefly adjustments of receivers routes in. As a high school and college coach, mouse davis had been refining the run and shoot football system for more than 25 years when he arrived in texas in the mid1980s to enter pro football. Xfl football odds johnsons out as offensive masters. A record breaking run and shoot offense, houston was known for lighting up the scoreboard with an offense that almost always had the quarterback sprinting to one side or the other. Aug 07, 2011 understanding the run and shoot choice package the choice package is designed to compliment the go package. And only one is bad with our offense the interception. The point shoot is essentially a system where there are 5 wide receivers on every play and they are allowed to adjust their routes on the fly depending on pre snap reads.
Teams that run the pro style offense focus on using a balanced offensive strategy. Jul 07, 2009 ive got tiger ellisons run and shoot football. Either they motion from a twobytwo receiver set into a trips or threebyone set, or vice versa. The run and shoot offense is run out of spread formations and it relies on receivers adjusting their routes based on coverage and movement of the defense. But when you start to read it you realize its nothing but a glorified playbook. It will stun the reader to find out that almost every modern offense directly stems from glenn tiger ellisons original run and shoot football book. Dec, 20 from roughly 1959 through 1963 he would amass a record of 387 utilizing this new found offensive system. While the go package is designed to attack the defense on the trips side the choice package instead attacks the backside end. The run and shoot offense also known as run n shoot is an offensive system for american football which emphasizes receiver motion and onthefly adjustments of receivers routes in response to different defenses.
Today the mouse davis version of this offense gets all of the attention but this original tiger ellison offense is perfect for any high school team. The spread offense is an offensive scheme in gridiron football that typically places the quarterback in the shotgun formation, and spreads the. Tracing the history of the explosive run and shoot offense in. Offense of the future on my bookshelf, given me by one of the sons of my old line coach. Why dont you see the shoot anymore in the nfl or major college football. In 1991 houston passed for 4,621 yards where in 1992 that number dropped to 4,029. Jul 07, 2007 11bravo said some are under the impression that coach davis invented the run and shoot. As for the run n shoot, its effectiveness was diminished and the race for the record book was over. Brown is the author of the art of smart football and the essential smart football, a grantland contributor and the editor of smartfootball. Pistol offense playbook for youth football youtube. In the original mouse davis run and shoot, the offense used a receiver in motion on almost every play.
Every football coach gooroo on social media as a book out that claims to be the best book in all of football. The offense is exciting and the book is an entertaining read. Culture crossfire article covering historybackground of run and shoot offense chris brown of smart footballs part 1 run and shoot series. He would also publish a book appropriately titled, run and shoot football.
The run and shoot is one of my favorite offenses, and ive long believed that it still has a lot to teach us, even if it was supposedly discredited. Here at xs os football we want to take a look at a very popular offensive style. Tracing the history of the explosive run and shoot offense. This prevents defenses from selling out to defend the go package by rolling their coverages over to the trips receivers. Identifying every nfl teams base offense bleacher report. It is named run and gun for its use of both run plays and shotgun plays. The shoot as a specific, delineated system with the four wide. The run and shoot is one of my favorite offenses, and ive long believed that it still has a lot to teach us, even if it was supposedly discredited or is defunct. The origins of this offense come from the split back misdirection offense that we ran while i was a player under coaching great, dale mueller at highlands high school. How to run the air raid offense with two run schemes youtube. Run and shoot series part 2 the seam read and the go concept. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, what houston was doing on offense was heresy, particularly the way they did it. The biggest difference in passing game was use of split ends.
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