Radically Oversimplifying Flexbone Football for Your Players’ Sake
March 26, 2025
Radically Oversimplifying Flexbone Football
Your players are craving radical oversimplicity. They want to hang their hat on a couple of plays. Too many coaches think a 20 play offense is simple. The reality is – a five play offense is radically oversimplified. David beat Goliath with a slingshot and five smooth stones… Now is the time to radically oversimplify your flexbone offense for the sake of your players.
Radically Oversimplifying Flexbone Football
Before the 2010 season, Falls City HS (TX) had never won a regional championship in school history.
In 2010, after running a camp with Lou Cella as Camp Director, Falls City HS (TX) won the Regional and State Championship for the first time in school history in Texas while scoring 680 points in 15 games.
“The biggest thing for us is that it gave our kids the opportunity to work together in our offensive system before the season started – the techniques and fundamentals they learned was so big, so was the team bonding, and so was having an outside source (Lou Cella) teaching them – this was invaluable.”
– Mark Kirchhoff, Head Football Coach
In 2021, Hollis (OK) finished 2-6.
In 2022, after running their Triple Option Football Academy Camp with Dr. Cella, Hollis (OK) won 8 games, went to the second round of the Oklahoma State Playoffs, and averaged over 400 yards/game of offense.
“I had Dr. Cella come in and do a camp in mid July. The camp simplified some things we were already doing, and got the kids on the same page. We changed our terminology to what we used in camp. Our play book became streamlined, and we worked rep after rep against all different defensive scenarios, it didn’t really matter what we saw defensively we had worked against that front and the kids were confident in what they were doing. It helped us tremendously on defense also, because an 8 minute drive became common for us. We committed to running the ball out the flex and taking what the defense gave us. Offensively we averaged over 400 yards a night and when you can do that you are a hard team to beat.”
– Trent Shelby, Head Football Coach
