TRIPLE OPTION or SPEED with FB DIVE

Hi Coach,
I understand your thought process and I hope you understand that this is just my thoughts on this. You are like most OC who see how the triple can really handcuff defenses and open up the rest of your offense. If you only want to practice the triple a little bit. You will only have a little bit of success. I think that most of us option guys are spending about 20 min. a day just on a full line or half line veer/option drill. Your skilled players need seperate time to work QB/FB mesh drills and pitch drills. Linemen need to work on zone and veer scheme. Plus, the 2 or 3 different ways to block the perimiter. There are just to many after snap adjustments each time you run veer that your players have to make.

Most of us run midline in to control LBs and 3 tech. We use outside veer and load option to get to the edge. We add a counter option to control LB that fly like a bat out of hell to pitch and a full set of playaction stuff to keep those darn Safties out of the alley. See, good defenses will try to take away 2 out of the 3 give,keep, pitch everything I talked about above helps keep all our options open. IMO you may not want to go down this road.

But I do think the belly/belly option package is great for people who can't find the time to run the triple. It can be run to both the strong and weak side. When its a give its a give. Later in the game the belly option (keep/pitch) is a bear to defend.

I will say that many people around here are having success running Coach Campbell's option on me package. You might want to get some info on that.

Good luck,
Coach B

I don't know if this is how it is really called or just our system. For us, "Belly" is when the TE and T down block and the playside guard kicks out the end man. The ball is given to the FB every time throgh the hole. "Belly Option" the QB will fake the give, FB goes through to block MLB, the TE will hook the end man, and the pulling playside guard leads around the corner to block the OLB and we pitch/keep off of the safety. Again, I don't know if this is the terminology or if we are alone is calling the plays this way.

Coach-
You might want to take alook at midline (givekeep read) and the freeze option (keep/pitch) off of it.