Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
New Grantland: June Jones’s Retirement, and the Lasting Influence (and Possible End) of the Run-and-Shoot
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New Grantland: June Jones’s Retirement, and the Lasting Influence (and Possible End) of the Run-and-Shoot
It’s now up over at Grantland: Yet Jones’s most important contribution to football will be his association with the run-and-shoot. It was an offense he first encountered as a record-breaking quarterback at Portland State while playing for Darell “Mouse” Davis. The run-and-shoot was developed by Glenn “Tiger” Ellison.2 Sometime in the mid-1950s, Ellison stopped to watch…
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Run and Shoot “Go” Concept
The Run and Shoot is one of my favorite offenses, and I’ve long believed that it still has a lot to teach us, even if it was supposedly “discredited” or is defunct. It’s foundational play was and remains the “Go” concept, which I’ve previously described: [“Go”] is a “trips” formation play — in the ‘shoot,…
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Thoughts on the spread and run and shoot offenses — Hemlock’s comment
[This is part of an ongoing back and forth between me and a friend of mine who goes by “Hemlock.” He was a D-1 coach at a Big 12 school (among other places) and now is pursuing a PhD in non-football related matters. He’s a spread offense/run & shoot guru, and has a lot of…
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