No Huddle Power Pistol - Implementing Tempo in Your Offense

Tempo is the engine of the No-Huddle Power Pistol, and this is the session where Robbie Owens explains how Grand Junction actually operates it. Owens runs five distinct tempos and shows when each goes in during a game, how the offense communicates the call, and why going fast on every snap is not the goal. Tempo is a weapon you choose, the same way you choose a play.

What you'll learn

• How Grand Junction runs its base two-back offense from the shotgun
• The Grand Junction identity: multiple formations, multiple personnel groups, a conflict-assignment running game, a vertical passing game and up-tempo no-huddle
• The base philosophy built on the run game, the screen game, the passing game and combinations of personnel, formations and motions
• When the offense burns all 40 seconds and when it speeds plays up
• The five tempos, Attack, Look/Peak, Slow Down, Automatics and Lightning, and the situations each one is used in
• Grand Junction's communication methods: signals and signs, words and numbers, and wristbands
• Ten reasons the no-huddle system is successful
• How cadence calls change tempo and adjust shifts, with actual calls including Bronco, Alabama, Yankee, Florida, Dodger and Oregon
• How automatics are implemented, plus the full play call breakdown for 832 Gator

Who it's for

High school head coaches and offensive coordinators adding no-huddle tempo to an existing offense, and any staff that needs a working system for signaling plays quickly and cleanly.

About the coach

Robbie Owens was head coach at Grand Junction High School in Colorado, where he combined the Pistol offense with the no-huddle to build the Power Pistol attack.

Part 4 of Coach Owens's four-part Power Pistol series.