Flexbone Triple Option Playbook: Utilizing Formations
October 3, 2013
Flexbone Triple Option Playbook: Utilizing Formations
No longer is there a need to use formations for the sake of using formations. This shows you how.
Coaches, here is how our Division-1 Flexbone schools call formations during the course of a game, and what you need to do as the play caller.
1. Find the Free Safety. Is he inside the tackle box or outside the tackle box?
2. Find the number of linebackers inside the tackle box.
3. See if the defense has an odd or even number of defensive linemen.
4. Align in a balanced offensive set (ex. Spread) and see if the defense aligns in a balanced defensive alignment.
If the defense does not balance, attack where the defense has fewer numbers.
If the defense aligns balanced, attack where they have the angles on blocks, especially on the playside linebacker.
If the defense aligns balanced and there are no angles, look for personnel mismatches.
5. Align in an unbalanced set (Trips or Over) and see where the free safety is aligned.
If the free safety is in the box and nobody from the defense goes over to the unbalanced side, attack where the defense has fewer numbers.
If the defense takes somebody over, attack the side from where the defender was taken.
6. In attacking a triple stack (3-3-5/3-5-3/5-3) from a balanced set identify where the linebackers are “in” or “out.”
If “in” go back from where the linebackers are kicked, or away from the secondary roll. Then, get into Trips or Over to make them declare their coverage.
Now is the time to work on different situations as a playcaller. Draw up situations and see if you can attack the situations just as Paul Johnson would! Then practice the situations with your players.
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“I know many coaches would rather install an offense the traditional way by researching it, visiting colleges that run the offense, and then picking coaches for information.
I have used that same strategy, and I know that it takes about three years to really gain an understanding of the offense and get players to execute it at a high level.
Consequently, in the research method, you do not have any collaboration with experts that are readily available when questions arise or resources that have consistency.
We wanted to give our players an offense that they could be successful with immediately.
We also concluded that by the time we visited colleges, bought DVDs, playbooks, and sent players to college camps to gain skills, we would have invested many times the cost of the camp.”
–Dr. Jimmy Woods, Head Football Coach, Timmonsville High School.
Went from 1-9 (2010) to the state semifinals (2011) in one year after their three-day camp with Triple Option Football Academy Owner, Lou Cella.
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