In his years as a defensive assistant coach and then as a defensive coordinator, new Howard head coach Mark Teague has seen every imaginable offense.
That experience helped him settle on the Hustlin’ Tigers’ new offense – the pistol triple option.
“As a defensive guy the triple option is the toughest to defend when run correctly,” the former East Ridge assistant said.
As option offenses go, it resembles neither the wishbone of the Bear Bryant and Darrell Royal years at Alabama and Texas nor the veer run by a number of coaches. And as a pistol goes, it is not a package within the offense in which a running back takes snaps.
“The first option is the dive play. The second is the quarterback running, and the third is the jet [or slot] guy,” Teague said. “We’ll typically run one back, but we have sets where we’ll have two or even three in the backfield and some where we’ll run two tight ends. It may look sloppy early on until we get our timing down.”