Pistol Offense?

Fuzzy

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While writing a term paper for my Composition II class, i decided to write a comparison essay on Pro-style offense and Pistol offense. And i started to think would the Huskers benefit with such a offense. Now i don't know much about Tim Beck and his offensive history except at NU. But I'm wondering would he implement such a system and would it work to the advantage of the players on the offensive side of the ball. It seems to me that you can still run the zone-read with the pistol based offense and I've always heard that it based around the use of dual-threat QB's like Taylor Martinez, Cody Green and Bubba Starling. So I am curious if other Husker fans feel the same way? Could Nebraska run a Pistol based offense in the Big Ten and be successful with it?

 
I didn't really notice it too much during the spring game. Truthfully i think they would be pretty good running the pistol as a base offense, especially since Bo likes to go after dual threat QB that are fast and shifty.

 
single back, smash mouth would be my preference. But, I would be happy with any style as long as it puts up points and takes the pressure off our defense.

 
Yes, we can definitely be successful using this offense. Its like running a simple Ace formation, but in shotgun. I love the pistol.

 
RedDenver said:
Didn't we run out of the pistol quite a bit last season?
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That's kind of what I was thinking. Currect me if I'm wrong, but the pistol is more of a formation than an "offense" with the back directly behind the QB, and the QB a couple yards closer to the line than in a standard shotgun passing down. That way he can read (zone-read) the defense better, and the play can move to either side of the field because of the position of the back.

Missouri uses it and everyone considers them a "spread" team.

I think you might have been comparing apples to oranges for your Comp II paper - hope that turns out OK.

 
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