The option offense may be the most popular type of offense. Mar 19, 2014 qbb mesh drill this drill is exactly what the name implies. In fact, the first time the light bulb lit over my head and let me know that i was using the wrong name for this play was when i ran across the true trap option in some wintt playbook. Flexbone association flexbone triple option football. The origins of this offense come from the split back misdirection offense that we ran while i was a player under coaching great, dale mueller at highlands high school. One of the main keys for defending spread option teams is eye discipline. Jet wing t, iformation, spinner t, splitback, twins formation, and bunch formation. This section has files from a variety of offensive. The counter option is the primary misdirection play in the flexbone option offense.
Ashley ingram, navy centers and guards coach stated at the 2011 navy football coaches clinic that 75 percent of the flexbone offense and 75 percent of practice time needs to be dedicated to four plays. Second is the option phase on the playside of the play. Steve gunther is the author of a number of books, including how to coach the wishbone football. In the flexbone formation, intelligent and athletic personnel can adapt to playing a quarterbacks position without having to throw the ball very well. However with different formations and different backs carrying the ball, it can look a lot more complicated to a defensive coordinator. Mar 29, 2011 a look at triple option from stillman valley high school in illinois.
If you are incorporating this drill into your daily practice plan, then youre ahead of the game. Lou cella installs army and navys modernday flexbone triple option offense with you, your players, and your coaches. The mastermind of the triple option offense at georgia southern, navy, and currently georgia tech, is paul johnson. Trap both counter and give, belly, iso, and the lead option. It is also one of the more complicated plays in the offense.
Here he provides examples of the triple option offense. Often, pro style offenses use certain formations much more commonly than the air raid, run and shoot, flexbone, spread, pistol, or option offenses. The fact that one variation of coach russells formation is identical with the runandshoot. Characterized by a wingback in the slot just behind the tight end, and a split end on the weak side, the offense places all three running backs in prime locations for counters, fakes, and other misdirection plays.
The flexbone offense is a modern adaption of the wishbone offense, which was one of the most potent rushing offenses in the history of college and high school football. Ive studied it for all 8 years, but never been in a situation to run it. Lou cella installs army and navys modernday flexbone triple. The spread option runandshoot offense introduction many coaches are interested in adopting the spread option attack first popularized by coach erskine erk russell at georgia southern university. There are other runs, within the offense that have playaction passes off of them, however the main focus of the flexbone playaction pass game, should be the veer pass figure. The play can be broken down into two relatives stages. In the article, coach gunther draws on his many years of experience as a hs and college coach, including a stint on coach emory bellards staff see below to present a comprehensive look at the flexbone triple option, blocking schemes, and individual coaching. Assistant head coach terrance banks from lakeside h.
This tool enhances your players learning curve and does it in a fraction of the time. The flexbone formation it is an offensive formation in american football that includes a quarterback, five offensive linemen, three running backs, and varying numbers of tight ends and wide receivers. The high school where i coach runs a flexbone tripleoption offense. Against bruin last night i had quite a bit of success just running my regular nebraska offense. Trap, when coupled with midline, is the perfect way to make a three. It is imperative that each position on a defense understands his fits and read keys. There are two adjustments that you need to have to be sure you can effectively run counter option. The tag system is also very prevalent in the sprintout passing game. If you can see last years bowl game versus colorado st, they scored atleast 3 times on the pitch phase of trap counter option and in the 2d half, ballard ate them alive on trap. That doesnt mean flexbone teams are out of options. First, there is the inside veer fake on the backside. Firstdown playbook changes how coaches teach the game of football. Youve got to have your most trusted, best decision maker at qb and your best running back at.
Triple option football academy flexbone, navy, georgia tech. However, instead of a specific play in mind, the offense has several options of how to proceed. Rather, it is the triple option run from a flexbonerunandshoot formation with two wide receivers and two slotbacks, with a single back behind the quarterback, who is under center. You have to commit a majority of your practice time to the play in order to run it effectively. May 16, 20 the mastermind of the triple option offense at georgia southern, navy, and currently georgia tech, is paul johnson. If you cant get this play to go, youre going to have problems running this offense successfully. Red faught and tiger ellison would love this perfect blending of the run and shoot and the flexbone option. Ran a lot of midline, trap, and load option no triple. Those four plays are triple option, midline option, zone dive, and counter option coach ingram stated that the triple option is a play that should be run 50, 60, even 70 percent of the time. These plays are not necessary however, and should only be added once the. The veer is a form of triple option made famous by coach yeoman at houston in the splitback variety, but also the flexbone navy, georgia tech, some iformation teams osbornes. Installing the complete option game game forces defenses to have to defend the entire field because of the offenses ability to get the ball out to the perimeter quickly. The goal of the offense should be to line up and run 60 offensive plays with all of them being the triple option.
The 3on3 drill is the most important drill that youre not doing every day in practice. Armys flexbone offense gives defenses more to worry. In the flexbone triple option offense, every supplemental play is used to do one thing and one thing only. The flexbone is a literal carbon copy of the double slot formation that glenn tiger ellison had created over two decades before the flexbone was born.
The tag is y dagger which tells the y receiver to run the dagger route. Incidentally, the optionstyle running game in the flexbone is based entirely around the cowboy and gangster series of ellisons runandshoot playbook. The power spread offense old school power football with the new school spread beauty. Fullback trap page 7 speed option page 9 fullback draw page 11 go route page switch route page 15 smash route page 17 veer dump page 19 dive choice page 21 pass protection page 23. We are spread, so i dont have a huge base knowledge of flexbone, slott, wingt, etc. Since the base play is the inside veer, the playaction passing game is based on this play. Trap this also means that we have basically 6 running plays. Below are some of the more common formations used in this style of option football. This a complimentary play to the midline option that we installed awhile back so be sure to go and check it out. Harvard plays 148149 fly option 118119 spin full sweep 218219 dbl reverse 89 wb lead 34. A quality flexbone coordinator has to understand how plays fit together.
It started slow for both offenses but then started getting better. Triple option football academy flexbone, navy, georgia. The flexbone formation is a predominant turnover formation derived from the wishbone formation and it features a quarterback under center with a fullback lined up directly behind the quarterback. Additionally, the cal poly mustangs achieved success with its flexbone style option offense under former head coach rich ellerson, who has since installed the offense at army. Jun 19, 2017 jeff monkens flexbone running game punishes defenses in a number of ways. In this excerpt from how to coach the flexbone offense, by steve gunther. This drill is vital to the development of your b back and interior ol. Still offering you all 35,000 plays, defenses, and special teams schemesdrawn by nfl coachesthat were in our 1. Teams that run the flexbone use a variety of sets to compliment the base formation. Here is an example of georgia tech running option scheme at a 34 odd front structure with des in 4is from georgia. Those four plays are triple option, midline option, zone dive, and counter option. This article is an excerpt from how to coach the flexbone offense, by steve gunther. The flexbone is a headache to defend because it forces the defense to be assignment sound so they dont give up the big play.
Includes 3 diagrams for the trap, trap option and lead option vs. Flexbone teams are often playing against more talented teams so they must use time management and trickery of the flexbone to even the playing field. Offense playbooks the air raid offense is a shotgun spread, passfirst offense designed by hal mumme and mike leach while they were at the university of kentucky in the 1990s. Defensively the broncos are traditionally very stout but have struggled the past few years against the triple option, the primary attack of new mexico and air force. This book is outstanding, from a coachs point of view. Can run triple option on setno shift call play action play action. These are various college playbooks that range from full playbooks.
He can be found at and can be reached at 570 3320265. We are going to practice the qbb mesh on the veer play. Finally took a job at a school that will be diving head first into the flexbone. Marys springs, who routinely warm up playing catch before games and at halftime, used that experience on thursday in the biggest game of their prep careers. A system designed to spread the field and run or pass based upon your personnel. Incidentally, the option style running game in the flexbone is based entirely around the cowboy and gangster series of ellisons runandshoot playbook. The academy empowers you to execute the triple option offense the right way the first time. It can be run from any formation and in any offensive scheme. Flexbone triple option by steve gunther option central. An option offense is a style of offense in american football that is predominantly based on a running play. Again, refer to the ifthen sheet in this book table 21 for a users guide on.
The staple passing game of the flexbone offense is the playaction passing game. Read option football is a hot topic right now with teams implementing the pistol and a variety of zone read schemes. Qbb mesh drill this drill is exactly what the name implies. Flexbone supplemental running plays in the flexbone triple option offense, every supplemental play is used to do one thing and one thing only. The flexbone offense has the flexibility to modify any route combination by simply tagging a receiver to run a different route. As much as wed love the players who grow up in our community to learn and run those types of plays, truth is, theyll be better prepared for us by gaining an overall understanding of how and why plays work. Add pulling guards and trap plays and a spread option offense can inflict a lot of damage if the defense is not disciplined.
Both midline and veer option have challenges against the 4i aligned des. Mitch waechter and cade christensen have been playing catch with a football for probably what seems like forever. At some point when you start your slot in motion with the flexbone offense everyone on the defense is going to start leaning to the motion. The quality of play from these two positions is the single most important factor in making this a productive play. Jeff monkens flexbone running game punishes defenses in a number of ways.
Armys flexbone offense gives defenses more to worry about than just the triple option. The wingt offense has been made famous by university of delaware coach harold tubby raymond, and is a popular misdirection offense that can be hard to stop. Jul 27, 2004 the original trap option looks a hell of a lot more like some kind of hybrid wingt play than anything an option coach drew up. The firstdown playbook flexbone package is a little bigger today than it was yesterday as we are installing the fullback trap. The flexbone ace set removes one of the split ends and puts a te on the field.
This comprehensive book features chapters on the zone drive. A look at triple option from stillman valley high school in illinois. My two pass plays actually came out of flexbone off of triple option pass. Why cant we run the triple option from the iformation. Lead trap ol outside of hole blocks down, ol inside of hole kicks out.
Based on the defense, the quarterback may hand off to a full back up the middle dive, hold on to the ball and run himself to either side of the field keep, or pitch the ball to a. This book is full of invaluable insights from coach stowerss days at georgia southern university, where the flexbone attack won six division iaa championships. Coach gunther draws on his many years of experience as a hs and college coach, including a stint on coach emory bellards staff to present a comprehensive look at the flexbone triple option, blocking schemes, and individual coaching points and techniques. Mar 21, 2014 trap option is best out of flexbone twins over. Flexbone supplemental running plays football is life. The original trap option looks a hell of a lot more like some kind of hybrid wingt play than anything an option coach drew up. Jan 27, 2014 ashley ingram, navy centers and guards coach stated at the 2011 navy football coaches clinic that 75 percent of the flexbone offense and 75 percent of practice time needs to be dedicated to four plays. The appalachian state mountaineers, who won three consecutive titles in division i fcs from 2005 through 2007, rely on the spread option offense.
However, i do know enough to know that this book is not over a flexbone, triple option offense. Football videos defending the flexbone offense with the. Armys flexbone offense gives defenses more to worry about than. Oct 08, 2016 the firstdown playbook flexbone package is a little bigger today than it was yesterday as we are installing the fullback trap. By stacking the ilbs clemson can get both backers quickly to the side of the option. Coach campbells 7 defensive e book bundles offer a tremendous amount of information on multiple defensive fronts and schemes. It has widespread use from college football down to youth football but is run very sparingly in the nfl. Army, navy, and georgia tech combined to do the following in 2018. If you can see last years bowl game versus colorado st, they scored atleast 3 times on the pitch phase of trapcounter option and in. This tool enhances your players learning curve and does it in a. Short plays in the flexbone offense that take advantage of aggressive defenses. In fact, the first time the light bulb lit over my head and let me know that i was using the wrong name for this play was when i.
The 2015 season proved to be an up and down season for boise state. Flexbone vs 52 i dont know that ive ever gone against the 52 but i do run the trap option alot to keep the opponent from shifting the d based on my motion direction. Im a hs football coach and our team has played in 2 texas state championships in the past 3 years. I recently stumbled on one of kiffins old playbooks from when he was. Have thought of maybe doing different playbooks like the wingt or the split backs beer.
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