Redskins Experimenting With Pistol Formations?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:00 pm
If you were following along on NFL Network's live coverage of training camps across the league as I was this afternoon, you might have noticed a few clips of the Redskins running out of different 'Pistol' formations. This is something we haven't seen from the Redskins or a Mike/Kyle Shanahan offense before. I tweeted about the pistol formation while practice was taking place, but I thought I'd go into a bit more detail here.
The very basic concept of the pistol is that the quarterback is lined up in-between shotgun and under center. In a full shotgun formation, the quarterback will line up five yards behind the center with any backs next to him, like this:
Whereas in the pistol, the quarterback lines up just three yards back from center, with the running back directly behind him. I show you what it looks like
But perhaps the best look at it is from the sidelines of camp today.
