Pin and Pull Schemes Qb and RB Variations

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Pin and Pull

The pin and pull scheme is used at both the NFL and college level. Teams such as Auburn under Gus Malzhan and Noel Mazzone ran it at Auburn  and Chip Kelly runs it at UCLA. At the pro level you see teams such as The Buffalo Bills run the play with great success.

It is taken from the old Green Bay sweep. some spread sweep and some old wing T Buck Sweep rules. Some teams will run it using the standard, if uncovered you pull. Other teams will take advantage of angles and block down. Neither way is right or wrong, just teams have preferences on how they do it.. 

The premise of the play is to get a pin and angle on a defensive lineman. The lineman not pinning is the puller.  It allows offenses to take advantage of angles and utitilize offensive lineman to pull and get on the perimeter. The aiming point for the back is similar to outside zone as it is a perimeter run play. You will see teams pull 2-3 uncovered lineman in the scheme and it is an excellent play to get the ball on the edge. 

The play is very similar to the old wing T sweep in many of it's principle:

1. The front side Guard or tackle will block the alley defender. Often times he will either kick out the force defender or log the alley defender. The RB will play off his block and make his cut accordingly.

The front side rules are very simple depending  on who you ask. Some teams will take advantage of angles, If you have a down block, down block. This is true of some teams who will block down on a 3 technque with the tackle. 

Auburn blocks it this way. 

For example, if you have a 4-2 base like below. The TE has a down block and the tackle has a down block, so down block. This can involve anyone from the center out to the playside. Here's Auburn's scheme.
One thing you will notice about Auburn is they love to crack with their wide receivers and have the Guard block the corner to the front side.

Another team that makes a living on this play is Chip Kelly at UCLA. He has always been a pin and pull guru from his days with the Eagles and that continued when he worked with Noel Mazzone at UCLA. 

Here's their variation.

In the next few clips you will see the scheme vs LSU.  

What UCLA does vs the 4-2 scheme is different in the fact that they pull the tackle and center who are uncovered like many traditional teams would do. The traditional theorists would say pull the uncovered lineman.

Teams like UCLA will utilize the QB pin and pull with a lead blocker who is the rb.

They do it with the QB.

2. Here are some other. qb schemes and rules:

Uncovered lineman will pull. In this situation you get a 3 technique and a shade on the backside.

TE=block the 6i

OT=3 tech

PSG= pull first thing outside

Center=shade

BSG=pull 

BST= 5 tech

Now with an end outside, you will often get a kickout by the playside lineman. 

Here the Bills run it out of 12 personnel 

3  QB Pin and Pull:

The Bills love the pin and pull scheme. They will run it at times as a qb pin and pull.

Here they run it in the playoffs vs. The Patriots. They will often do it on 3rd and less than 3 situations. Here its from 3x1 off the fake to the RB.

Nice fake and pull the center and right guard.

Fake wide zone and pull the qb.

In this example, you get a  bear front. The Bills pull the Center and right guard and get a good down block from the tight end and wing. The backside cuts off the nose and defensive tackle. 

Due to the wide outside linebacker the Guard ends up kicking out the outside linebacker and the center turns up for the seal. 

Nice job of pulling by the center and guard. They get a hard force so ball gets turned inside.

 

 

Fake to the rb and get the center and guard to the right. Guard kicks the hard force and center sees it and leads up

Again they get the guard and center pulling. Create angles.

Here they run a similar play vs the Texans They get the nice seal and down blocks and Allen gets a huge gain off the jet action the other way. The Texans are in the under front

Here's a nice qb run for 40 plus yards.

Texas QB Pin and Pull out of empty

TE comes down and cracks the 5

WR blocks #2 

G and Tackle get on the edge

 

Texas goes empty

They run pin and pull

Create nice angles vs the odd front. Nice block,

Tennessee Pin and Pull Schemes vs Bowling Green 2021 (3 film clips are below the write ups)

1st concept

They run it with Center and left guard pulling and the right guard and Rt all blocking back.

They lead with the h back and pull the center and left guard.

Here they pull the guard and tackle and lead with the h back

Nice design.

The 2nd time they read the DE and still pull the center, right guard and right tackle.

Again nice scheme                                                         

nice kick out and lead pin and pull play.

In the last example vs Bowling green they run it with the rb

4-2 front

Right tackle and right guard block the dt and de. 

They pull the center and left guard with the left tackle cutting off the backside

They read the 5 technique 

Nice scheme and design.

 

 

They create good angles pin the de and get 2 guys around with a lead blocker

Empty Pin and Pull from the Utah offense.

Front Bear

Coverage cover 0

They bring the TE in motion and crack on the de. 

#1 wr blocks the SS

Tackle pulls and takes the CB

Nice scheme from Utah

Nice job with motion man cracking and the qb running it out of empty.

Nice job with the lineman getting on the perimeter

Nice angles and run

Ravens version of pin and pull.

They run it off jet motion out of 13 personnel

They get a nice down block vs the under front with the left guard and tackle and pull the center.

Ravens always do a great job with it.

Nice scheme.

Good blocking and down blocks.

Film with the clips above

They run it a 2nd time again for a huge gain.

Again nice angles and blocking with the reduced formation

See the angles. Te gets the good crack and they get the center on the CB by design.

Center kicks out the CB

Tackle gets to the LB

Panthers run pin and pull off of jet sweep action. Bunch formation puts bosa in a 5 technique. 

11 personnel

run jet with #3. SS goes with it and creates angles for the pin and pull the other way.Nice down blocks by

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QB designed runs, Pin and Pull counter, read at the College and NFL Level

Some QB Designed Runs Below

This article looks at the numerous run schemes you will see utilizing the qb as a runner. 

Pin and Pull

Lets look at the pin and pull concept that is becoming popular at the college level. Here are some different ways teams run the QB Pin and Pull.

Oklahoma 2019 with Hurts is one example. Pull 2 guards and get the rb as a lead blocker.

Another qb run with Murray as the qb

The G-T Counter  and QB Counter game

You  can run it out of 10 personnel, 20 and 21. They would often run it out of 2o or 21 to give them a lead blocker to the play side on the alley defender. Here are a few ways they ran it.

2018

Offense in 10 personnel, they get a light box and run it to the weak side. Thy do a nice job and Murray breaks it for 40 as they run the QB counter. 

Teams like UCLA will utilize the QB pin and pull with a lead blocker who is the rb.

2. Here are some other. qb schemes and rules:

Uncovered lineman will pull. In this situation you get a 3 technique and a shade on the backside.

TE=block the 6i

OT=3 tech

PSG= pull first thing outside

Center=shade

BSG=pull 

BST= 5 tech

Now with an end outside, you will often get a kickout by the playside lineman. 

Here the Bills run it out of 12 personnel 

3  QB Pin and Pull:

The Bills love the pin and pull scheme. They will run it at times as a qb pin and pull.

Here they run it in the playoffs vs. The Patriots.

In this example, you get a  bear front. The Bills pull the Center and right guard and get a good down block from the tight end and wing. The backside cuts off the nose and defensive tackle. More of a bash concept but still a nice designed run.

Due to the wide outside linebacker the Guard ends up kicking out the outside linebacker and the center turns up for the seal. 

Here they run a similar play vs the Texans They get the nice seal and down blocks and Allen gets a huge gain off the jet action the other way. The Texans are in the under front and you'll see the clip below.

Here's a nice qb run for 40 plus yards.

Bonus clip vs the Jets

They motion to empty as the Jets are in the bear front. Get the guard and tackle on the perimeter.

The Bear front with the 6i gives them good angles. Man free forces the Mike outside the box.

Texas QB Pin and Pull out of empty

TE comes down and cracks the 5

WR blocks #2 

G and Tackle get on the edge

Oregon Empty Pin and Pull

They design a nice QB pin and pull off of motion. They get both the LB and CB to react and get a nice surface with the 6i to the tight end. Stanford OLB cuts the guard and does a decent job but the QB makes a nice run for a 12 yard gain.

QB Counter 

Ole Miss 3rd and 4

out of empty

They motion to 4x1 the defense adjusts and they run counter the other way

Defense shifts with motion

Nice Counter scheme with excellent blocking.

Nice kickoff by the guard and lead by the h back. Nice design.

Ole Miss runs a read with a wrap scheme against Arkansas with a pull on the backside. Leave the 5 technique and wrap the guard on the LB.

3rd and 8

Qb Draw out of 4x1 formation. They motion to empty and trap Hutchinson with the Guard, 

A nice scheme vs the load front. Guard pulls and kicks out Hutchinson with a down block from the OT.

QB Counter with RPO attachment

Indiana Runs QB Counter off RPO action.

You can run this out of 2x2 or 3x1 with any rpo or screen action you want.