Play-Action Passing From the Pistol

The 2011 Knox football team saw many statistical improvements that reinforce we are heading in the right direction. Our rushing attack improved by 45 yards per game and we averaged 21.5 more yards per game passing. One result was our scoring offense doubled from 2010. We run the Pistol and play-action complements the belly run play that we called 90 times last year. A simple play that we added this year that greatly impacted our passing game is play-action off of our belly run play. We completed 60% of our passes in this scheme. The concept and protection scheme can be run out of any offensive system that utilizes a pulling guard. We prefer using three formations (Figure 1) and their opposite formations with the tight end to the right. We used play-action off the belly 31 times, completing 21 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns. For protection purposes, play-action (Figure 2) is