Originally posted by DrGonzo00:
Kap wasn't ripping off runs after the Packer game. They closed that seam and started spying, taking away that read option one.
If we stay in the read option and Pistol for a majority of the time, as was happening later in the year, he'll get figured out. I'm not a fan of that offense. Sprinkle it in to catch the other team off guard and off balance, but get Kap in 3-5-7 step drops, let the receiver run routes, use his arm or bootleg. We got too cute with that s**t last year and it cost us.
The Pistol and the Read Option are not one in the same.
The Pistol is not a offense, it is a formation, a Shot gun formation with the running back lined up behind the QB that allows for power running playcalling, something traditional Shot gun formations do not allow for.
We haven't even really opened up the for playcalling yet, wait til we have Hunter back and run the full house with Gore-Hunter-James and James motions out of the backfield and splits out wide.
We got too cute by throwing 4 straight times and not letting Gore touch the ball down the stretch. The Pistol is a key formation and far from figured out.