It has been 20 years since Pro Football Hall of Famers Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed last took the field together for the Buffalo Bills and ran a no-huddle offense known as the “K-Gun.”
This season in college football USC is employing a more straight-up sendup of the K-Gun — the Trojans call it “smash and gun” — and it isn’t the only team doing so.
Coaches are human, and like all humans they get intrigued by what’s next, the evolution of technology, of thought, or in this case their sport. And after a decade of college teams embracing the spread and spread-option, coaches are thinking about what they can do with more runners in the backfield and tight ends on the line — commonly known as a “pro set.