Anybody run the triple option from the gun?

We run the veer from two back gun also, as well as the load and a triple option off the trap read play. The gun gives you an extra back in the backfield for your iso/power game also. With the two back gun you have a third back in the backfield while still having three eligible receivers.

We had great success with our gun run game! From two back gun you can run inside veer to the open side with the same blocking as you would use from the I, and with the same reads. QB meshes with RB and reads the 5 tech. If he squeezes, QB keeps and replaces the 5, pitching off the next man. The backside RB dropsteps and gets into pitch relationship. This can be run from the two back gun as a triple, and the one back gun as a double option.
Great thing is the blocking is the same as from your sets under the center.

Coach,
The prospect of the triple out of the gun intrigues me. Could you diagram that play? If I understand your reply, the dive back is running across the body of QB, while the QB reads the 5 on the side of the formaiton opposite the direction dive back is taking? If that's correct, then it sounds like a give read is where the 5 tech crashes upfield directly at the QB, but I'm a little unclear on what's pull read--in a trap play, is it that you'd pull when the 5 tech chases the pulling lineman? I'd sure like to hear some more on this, Thanks, Steve

Coach/Stick,

Do you have a sense of the blocking on this play? Coach Vint's reply indicates the blocking is the same as for the I, but I don't see how that works if the Dive Back is running acroos the face of QB on a path away form the 5 tech/dive read. Do you know what the backside blocking looks like? Thanks, Steveokla

coach vint, have you ever tried running the veer from the gun where the back meshes to the playside just as though the were in the I ? I think if he ran a tight path and if the footwork was adjusted, that the play could work.