The loyola marymount break was developed by paul westhead. Lomax alone at the top, lomax passes into the ncaa record books, man with the golden arm quarterbacks portland state, the washington. Spread offense may also refer to the four corners offense in basketball. Burrell football coach shawn liotta authors no huddle, no. Hi everyone, ive been collecting some historical football books and the next on my list was the above book by greg tiger ellison. The now attack hardcover november 1, 1984 by glenn ellison author. Years ago, one coach, glenn tiger ellison, the creator of the run and shoot offense, predicted that the run and shoot would be the offense of the future and teams would put the ovalshaped ball on display. In this video mouse davis explains the explosive run and shoot choice route along with special tags to the route. He served as the head football coach the university of houston from 1990 to 1992, compiling a record of 1815. The run and shoot offense is an offensive system for american football which emphasizes.
The spread offense is an offensive scheme in gridiron football that typically places the quarterback in the shotgun formation, and spreads the. A few weeks ago i started looking at the run and shoot offense. List of all madden 20 plays in singleback spread in the run and shoot offense. Coach blacks most important contribution was the addition of several playaction passes which combine run and shoot principles. John jenkins houston run and shoot tuesday, 12 july 2011, by. In fact, many teams run some form of zone read option play as a part of their offense. The passing plays the offense was initially predicated on motion, half rolls by the qb ending up behind the ot, and being under center with 1 rb. List of formations in the madden 19 run and shoot offense.
Tracing the history of the explosive run and shoot offense. Run and shoot offense american football database fandom. When it was initially designed, it was never run out of the shotgun, but now it is used extensively that way. John jenkins born june 20, 1952 is an american football coach and former player. The run and shoot offense is run out of spread formations and it relies on receivers adjusting their routes based on coverages and movement. 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. What is the best offense to run in high school football team. Difference between the run and shoot, air raid and spread.
While at lasalle college in the 70s and 80s, his 0 defense gained widespread notoriety when it was learned that the defense was named because one defender was asked to play no zero defense. Aug 07, 2011 the go package is often the first passing concept installed by run and shoot teams and is the base on which the entire trips passing game is built off of. Dec 08, 2007 the run and gun offense is a further evolved school of thought. Spread offense simply opens the field by spreading the offensive line and adding more receivers. The scheme is run out of spread formations and is executed by receivers adjusting their routes based on the coverage and movements of the defense. Coachup nation the basics of the zone read offense. As a coach, the one you know best is almost always the best one to run. The run and shoot offense was designed by a high school coached named glenn tiger ellison. List of all madden 20 plays in gun trips in the run and shoot offense. Mouse davis, the godfather of the run and shoot offense says this about the run and shoot, you cannot stop what we do. June joness retirement, and the lasting influence and likely end of the run andshoot offense. You will not be disappointed with this book regardless.
Do you want to combine the air raid offense with the run and shoot offense. Pro set near this formation offers great variety to the offense. Coach blacks book does not cover this variation, however. The run and shoot go concept using te formations and a qb. With the tight end to block and two running backs in the backfield, they can use lead runs where the fullback leads the halfback through the hole, or misdirection plays where one back fakes the run in one direction and the other carries the ball in another. Some are under the impression that coach davis invented the run and shoot. The wake forest demon deacons are lined up in a threereceiver spread package during a 2012 game against boston college. This is a very quirky kind of grouping of plays in that it utilizes long and complicated passes and also short and simple runs.
Dave smart if you get the ball in the corner, make a play, you cant hold it. The ball control run n shoot is a short, conservative, ball control ran with run n. June joness retirement, and the lasting influence and likely end of the runandshoot offense. Nov 04, 2007 i pronounced it to be a wretched book due to its lack of biblical exegesis for its foundation. The story of mouse davis and the run n shoot offense. Wide open football route conversions double slot, can be called the original flexbone flexbone triple option cowboy on the run the ingenuity and brilliance of this man cannot be understated. A system designed to spread the field and run or pass based upon your personnel. If you love the spread offense and want to learn the offense with me. Mar 21, 2011 drew hill sustained a successful 14season career as one of the n. Mark few when we throw the ball to the corner we want it out of there, dribble out. Today i talk with coach justin clark about the run and shoot offense.
And one of the things the run and shoot offense does is the quick game concept. This book contains enough plays and information that will guide you to offensive success and ultimately to lead you to more wins. In describing this package in his excellent book coaching runandshoot football al black says that the go play is designed to place a quick stretch. He claims i have called that mans judgment into question.
Whats the difference between the run n shoot and the spread. Coach al blacks excellent book, coaching run and shoot football harding press, 1991, details how he joined the powerful run and shoot offense of coach darrel mouse davis with a triple option attack. Mar 17, 2016 gutfoxxs guide to the run and shoot offense madden 16 march 17, 2016 march 21, 2016 gutfoxx this is the hardest playbook to master in madden and you will throw a lot of interceptions when you are learning it. Its no surprise that following the success june jones had running the run and shoot offense at the university of hawaii, many local high schools now run that same offense. The wr splits make for intense spacing, the passing game focuses on attacking deep or wide with screens and vertical routes, and the run game is. Coach westhead developed a reputation as a free thinker throughout his coaching career. A proponent of the run and shoot offense, jenkins also coached professional football in the united states football league usfl, the canadian football league cfl and the fall experimental football. The run and shoot offense lined up 4 receivers on most plays and ran with no huddle. Coaches i am looking for any and all information on the run and shoot. From what i understand air raid is like a mixture of west coast and run and shoot concepts option routes and and emphasis on yac, the run and shoot is all about wr option routes and the spread is like both of them but with more running and emphasizes giving the ball to your athletes on jet sweeps and screens and using the qb as a running threat. Going into the game the oilers were averaging 307 yards passing, just off pace needed to break marinos passing record, yet staggered away from this game only averaging 232 the rest of the season. The wampus attack portrays a basic version of the runandshoot offense.
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. Jan 19, 2016 mouse davis explains the run and shoot. As of 2012, the only team in the nfl that is running the west coast offense is the san francisco 49ers and jim harbaugh. A team blessed with great physical talent is what every coach hopes for it certainly helps make coaching easier. Offensively, the team moves the ball forward as quickly as possible and takes the first available shot, often a threepointer. My opinion is viewed by a fellow christian as a verbal assault against another who likes and promotes the book. Keep in mind that he was doing this in just 11 game seasons. List of all madden 19 plays in gun spread in the run and shoot offense. We have found, though, that just running the basic version of this is not enough to be successful.
The other modern run and shoot variation thats achieving success at the high school and college level is the triple shoot offense, which combines the run and shoot route packages with the flyjetspeed sweep series, maintaining the davis philosophy of complexity through simplicity. I received dutch meyers spread offense book that had been out of print for some time, as a christmas present some years back. Every single day, a new outrage, a new offense, a new anger, over something that someone, somewhere, had done or said. Westheads teams try to shoot the ball in less than seven seconds. The run and shoot revolution continues kozlovsky, jeffrey on. This is the fan page for a movieinthemaking about the triumphant story of darrel. The run and shoot offense was first developed in the 1960s by glenn tiger ellison from middletown, ohio. Jan 25, 2017 the run and shoot is one of the most prolific, high scoring offenses of all time. The above clips show some of the key concepts in the shoot, versus various coverages. The run and shoot starts from a oneback set with two receivers on each side of the formation.
One of the more surprising pieces to the paul johnsonnavy puzzle is the effect the run and shoot offense has on their. See georgia tech 4out 1in motion, and walberg dribbledrive motion. Mar 21, 2016 how dino babers will build syracuses new offense on the baylor model. Smu mustangs run and shoot offense 1994 tom rossley. Here at xs os football we want to take a look at a very popular offensive style.
Lots od diagrams that illustrate the evolution of tigers thinking. Looking back at drew hill, runandshoot receiver for oilers the new york times. Do you want to score at will with the power of the two best passing offenses. Run and shoot series part 1 a simple approach to the. 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. Gutfoxxs guide to the run and shoot offense madden 16. Jenkins made these reads player specific, so a receiver makes a presnap read of his area, rather than the entire coverage package, looking for leverage. The run and shoot offense set records in the usfl in 1984. Offense of the future, in 1965 that found its way into neumeiers library. In this video mouse davis explains the explosive run and shoot choice. His very popular version of the offense averaged scoring a touchdown every ten plays and once scored 98 points in a single game. 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. Dec, 20 then mouse davis took over portland state and the division ii world got slapped upside the head with the new run and shoot offense. The passing revolution john jenkins and the run and shoot.
Published on jan 20, 2017 this video gives you a basic rundown of the run n shoot offense, from its rise in houston all the way to hawaii with june jones in its prime. Madden 19 playbook database run and shoot offense gun. You dont really see it much anymore in its traditional form, but run and shoot passing concepts are scattered throughout all levels of football. Chris 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. Run n shoot atlanta, georgia gymphysical fitness center. June joness retirement, and the lasting influence and likely end. To prove their point, they provided a handy interactive online calendar. Combining the air raid offense with the run and shoot. Coach al blacks excellent book, coaching runandshoot football harding press, 1991, details how he joined the powerful runandshoot offense of coach darrel.
All of the text in quotes was pulled from john jenkins 1985 qb manual. Fast break and transition offense paul westhead loyola. Now then, after that really long history lesson, let us finally delve into the plays and meat of the run and shoot offense. I have a chapter in the essential smart football on how teams have assimilated run and shoot concepts to todays game. It was modified and popularized by mouse davis with portland state and in the usfl with the houston gamblers. Taking an offense is a great way to hinder the progress god is making in your life and work. 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. Installing run and shoot offense quick game concept youtube.
Chris 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. Throwing on the run is also a better solution for 12u for both the passer and linemen. The power spread offense old school power football with the new school spread beauty. Tracing the history of the explosive run and shoot offense in. Call tells the sback to align 1 yard outside of the tackle and 1 yard off the football.
So, to answer that question, liotta wrote, no huddle, no mercy, a 126page book about installing a nohuddle, run and shoot offense. The run and shoot offense remains one of footballs necessary fundamental building blocks when creating and sustaining a successful offense and passing attack. A simple approach to the run and shoot part 1 the most famous game that involved a team running the run and shoot offense was one where that team lost. Demystifying the run and shoot go vs 1 high zone by. With the assistance of jason hahnstadts demistifying the run and shoot offense video series, i came up with a base understanding of the offense. Jun 10, 2011 the beating was so decisive it ruined the oilers season and this game was the complete blueprint on how to stop the run and shoot.
It is named run and gun for its use of both run plays and shotgun plays. So in todays video, we talk about installing the run and shoot offense quick game concept air raid book. My mind wants to trace everything back to the roots from where it started. A victim cannot instantly pull a gun and shoot an attacker who raises a fist or slaps or punches the victim without trying another way of fending off the attack, because that would be more force than was reasonably necessary. I believe the run game and throwing on the run will make our play action passing even stronger. The briles veer and shoot takes the idea of a power run playaction spread offense to its logical extremes. Run and shoot passing concepts are qb friendly and allow the receivers some options to. Find great resources on christian art and culture at. While run and gun basketball is often thought of as a system of offense, westheads system uses a combined offensive and defensive philosophy. Harbaugh has modified the offense to be a run first, pass second offense.
Is his position not taking offense simply because we disagree on the value of. There are elements of the run and shoot in every nfl offense today, and most college offenses as well. You can pick a day, any day, from 2014, click on it, and find out what everyone was outraged about during that particular 24hour period. Pretty young women try and fail to fit into the prettyyoungwomen shaped boxes they are expected to fit into. 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. No offense chronicles the day to day lives of women who are figuring out how to be themselves and get what they want, one messy, embarrassing mistake at a time. This book a single pdf is a great way to be introduced to how passing works in ncaa football 06. Jeff bauer have a player cut to the ballside corner against trapping defences. Complete with comprehensive text and detailed play diagrams, this instructional football book covers all aspects of todays explosive run and shoot offense including topics on. Its main purpose is to help struggling smaller teams to be more successful offensively. Thats not the case with the veer and shoot, an optionstyle offense with a vertical passing game built in. The 4 main schools of spread offense football study hall.
For me it meets the contrairian ideas of point of attack unknown until after the snap, and optioning defenders. Dec 30, 2008 run and shoot is about a single back, slots and receivers that are freed up to adjust their patterns. The run and shoot is based on presnap reads that dictate routes for the offense. How dino babers will build syracuses new offense on the. The primary question is whether using a gun was reasonable or reasonably necessary under the circumstances. I purchased this book to find the roots of the al davis, houston gamblers offense. 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. With conor brown, griffin burns, kyle cooper, dante gabiati. Why dont more nfl teams run the run and shoot offense. This is a book that anyone interested in football can read, enjoy and understand.
From 1975 1980 mouse would put up a record of 4224 while scoring 366, 424, 416, 337, 377, and 541. No huddle no mercy a complete guide to installing the nohuddle offense. I like to find old books on passing the ball from its infancy years, and compare what we are doing now. From the perspective of an offense that you can scale to suit almost any level of player talent, the w. Looking back at drew hill, runandshoot receiver for oilers. The offense affects many areas, including roster makeup there are no tight ends on run and shoot team rosters, but as many as nine wide receivers are kept, the running game it. Thoughts on greg ellisons book the run and shoot offense. Run and shoot football pdf the run and shoot starts from a oneback set with two receivers on each. The run and shoot offense is run out of spread formations and it relies on receivers adjusting their routes based on coverages and movement of the defense. The purpose being to uncover the intentions of the defensive secondary.