The Pistol offense was fun to watch but it didn’t really lead to wins.

Wasn’t that down to the defense leaking like a sieve?

Good point. I would say the offense suffered from inconsistency though.

By the way, I meant to say at the top of the post that I was using spread/Pistol interchangeably.

keep the spread/pistol and develop it more. With the league gearing more towards passing now-a-days with all the protection given to WR’s, passing is where it’s at (as evidenced by the Cardinals appearance in the superbowl).

As well, more and more colleges are running the spread, and the QB’s coming into the draft are increasingly becoming spread QB’s. It’s going to infiltrate the NFL, sooner or later (and in some forms, it already has).

It’s hard to say whether or not the spread/pistol won the Chiefs zero games, or the defense lost them, because BOTH sides of the ball played inconsistent and helped each other lose 14 games. But I saw enough promise in Gaileys game to have the spread stick around to see how it fares for another year.

I’d wager that we scored two thirds of our points in the 1st half of those 9 games. I don’t think it was the fault of the formation that we couldn’t score after halftime. That needs to be figured out.

pitt wins super bowls grounding and pounding and strong d. Dont get me wrong i think we should keep the pistol but not lose site of pounding the rock we need to mix it up i hope we do not end up like a poor mans cardnals and put up a million points and lose by one point.

and i kind of agreed with herm he was saying playing in the playoffs in the snow trying to run the pistol your going to run into some problems and like your saying late in the game you still trying to pass to close out the game you give the other team chances if you cant get first downs.

But I would rather be top 10 if we could i remember when we had priest and we had barry word and the nightmare . It was like we are going to run the ball and there is nothing you can do about it ,and when you think u can stop us we will throw a pass . I would just like more running and a little less passing unless our D is to nasty then I dont care what you do as long as we are putting up points and they are not.

happy medium i dont mind the pistol . But their is a reason why pitt has championships their is a reason why clark wants to be like pitt and their is a reason the giants won it they have a running game and a pass game . but they set up the pass by running the ball not running the pistol all game i just say we do both happy medium.

I love this kid. All you have heard about him from the pundits is how he won’t make it at the next level as a QB.

Here’s Todd McShay’s Breakdown of Pat White before the Senior Bowl:

"The facts remains, though, that White has a fragile 6-foot-1, 190-pound frame, he does not show good accuracy when attempting NFL-style throws and he will have a steep learning curve transitioning from the Mountaineers’ option-based offense to a pro-style system. That’s why we have no doubt that White’s chances of earning a living in the NFL are much greater as a versatile slot receiver than as a quarterback. "

What does White do? Earn the MVP award.

Think he should be WR? He goes to the combine and performs the best among the QB’s, outshining Mark “I have played 3 quarters” Sanchez.

I love the idea of a guy that keeps disproving pundits and plays with a chip on his shoulders. Man would he look good in red.

spreading out a defense is FUNDAMENTAL to offense. Offensive players have an extra step because they know where they are going, while the defense must wait for the player to make a move before reacting. The best thing a defense can do is add another guy. If the offense lines up in goalline and runs it up the middle, 11 defenders are right there to stop the ball carrier. If they line up in the spread and run up the middle, the receivers might take 6 or 7 guys completely out of the play.

Spreading it out works, period.

WR’s, athletic TE’s, and smaller, more agile OL will be in demand to run the spread, then defenses will need a shitload of CB’s and rangy safeties to defend it. Some defenses will focus on up front disruption, others will try to load up on man to man shutdowns. Then Jim Brown will come along and bring back pounding the ball and driving forearms into puny second level arms tacklers.

QB’s that can run the spread must be accurate and mobile enough to avoid the rush that is coming to disrupt them. The shotgun helps, but unless you have a QB that reads and throws as quick as Warner, he better be able to run. Just look at the Rams a couple of years ago when they were running their offense. If you started to disrupt Warner, it got ugly, especially since that man couldn’t outrun Rich Eisen. Ideally you want to marry Thigpen’s arm, White’s legs, and McCoy’s accuracy into one body. A big QB with a slow deliver who isn’t mobile will get creamed.

I don’t know that the Chiefs are really a Pistol offense team. They ran it several times last year and it got a lot of notoriety, but they abandoned it the last two or three games of the year and went to straight Spread. The purpose of the Pistol formation was to enable some play action. I don’t know if they decided it was ineffective or what the situation was.

I don’t know about Pat White as a legitimate starting QB type, but I would love to have him as a SLASH player. It would be nice if he could make the transition from QB to WR as succesfully as Randel El did so he could be on the field all the time and always be a threat to do something crazy, but I don’t know if that is realistic or if White has that capability.