The Importance of Flexing

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Throwing Four Verts (60/70) Out of Trips

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Avoid These Eight Communication Errors in Running the Flexbone Triple Program

Assistant Coaches play a HUGE role in the development of the Triple Option program.

The information they educationally communicate to players make all the difference between winning and losing.

There are eight communication errors to avoid when coaching the Triple Option.

These errors are the following:

1- Coaches jumping to conclusions

If a coach is unfamiliar with the Triple Option, he cannot assume that the offense is going to look like Navy on day 1, day 5, day 10, or day 15.  This is a process-based offense requiring techniquing assignments.

2- Rushing to judgments

When problems occur during the Triple Option installation process, coaches must refrain from assuming the offense does not work.  They cannot judge the offense based on one bad practice or game performance.

3- Speaking those judgments

Here is where the problem gets huge.  The disgruntled coach does not agree with the offense and looks to start a clique of haters who are on his side about the Triple Option offensive strategy.

4- Giving unwanted advice

Coaches provide players with irrelevant information.  For example, a new Offensive Line coach tells the Tackle to “give the 5-technique a little push” before he veer releases.  This coach does not understand the concept of a veer release and believes that this is going to help the quarterback make a better read.  Coaches must know all the techniques and WHY the techniques are executed in the specific, non-negotiable fashion.

5- Moving prematurely to problem solving

Coaches are adding unnecessary detail to fix an error in Quarterback’s Triple Option footwork.  They need to follow the information provided by the Triple Option Football Academy and not improvise.  All the answers are right here.

6- Changing the subject

When Triple Option does not work on the first play of the game due to a singular error, this should not result in coaches “scrapping” the Triple Option and running constraint runs the rest of the game–this offense cannot sustain itself with constraint runs.

7- Talking about yourself

Coaches, nobody cares what you did on offense when you played for Polk High in 1976… this is a totally different offense with cutting-edge alignments, assignments, and techniques.  This offense is designed for the military.  It’s BETTER than what you did in 1976…

8- Talking about other similar cases

Coach, there’s nothing to compare this offense.  Stop attempting to treat this as a case study and just coach the alignment, assignment, and technique for Friday-night success.

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The Truth About Midline and Outside Veer

These two concepts are popular topics; however, here are the real-time facts about these two concepts:

  • The Midline Option has been a popular topic over the last 25 years; however, Midline as a Double Option was only run a combined 84 times in 2018 by Army, Navy, and Georgia Tech (3% of the offense and run 2.1 times/game).
  • Midline Triple Option was run slightly more as this concept was executed 95 times in 2018 by Army, Navy, and Georgia Tech. This was 4% of their offense and was run 2.4 times/game.
  • In 2007, Navy (then coached by Paul Johnson) averaged Midline Double and Triple 11% of the time.  In 2018, Midline Double and Triple Option is 7% of the combined Army, Navy, and Georgia Tech Offense. This is a significant decline over the last 11 years.
  • Outside Veer, another popular topic, was run less than a combined 10 times in 2018 by Army, Navy, and Georgia Tech. This concept was run less than 1% of the time.