What Percent of Georgia Tech and Navy’s Offense is Misdirection?
September 14, 2015
In Navy’s win versus Colgate (2015), 6 of the 54 plays they ran were classified as misdirection. This is because they were run away from the A-Back’s pitch route/motion. This was 11% of their offense.
So in making decisions on how much offense you need to run the Triple Option offense effectively, less than 20% of your offense should be misdirection based.
The average high school game consists of 48 plays.
20% of 48 is 10.
Arizona Cardinals’ Offensive Line Coach, Larry Zierlein has done extensive research in running the football over the last 15 years. He has indicated that for a play to be successful, the play must be run at least four times/game.
The answer to how much misdirection do we need in our Triple Option Offense is the following: Less than two concepts.
