Double Slot-Option on Me

I know it would work if you repped it enough and got your motion down.

A couple of years ago, we took the option on me concept and applied it to a three-wide set, which is similar to what you get once one of your HB's go in motion. Our version of option on me (and Coach Campbell's if I'm not mistaken) reads the weakside invert first. If there is no weakside invert, we want to get the ball out there. Instead of running veer, though, we run what we call "freeze" which is a single read for the QB of the EMOL. We dive the FB up the midline because we feel it does a better job of constricting the defense than the veer path. If there is a weakside invert, our QB knows we are going to the strong side with either veer, midline, or sometimes even speed option, depending on the alignment of the DT and the presence of a strong side invert (which we get almost 100% of the time because of the 2 wides on the same side). In a double slot, it's a balanced formation, but if you predetermined which HB was going in motion, his side would become the weakside of the formation. I could see some interesting possibilities of running back to the side your HB just came from (the weakside), which would throw off some of the motion keys, especially if you see some teams that try to balance up and shift over when you go in motion.

At the end of the last season, I thought we might go from being a Twins-Open, I-formation team to a Double Slot team for lack of a true tailback, so I played around with ways to keep option on me in our offense if we made the switch. Good or bad, this is what I came up with.