Option on Me

Steven Burke 

Option football, dealing with house cards is the best way describe this triple headed spear, and it does take time to master, but an old saying from one of my favorite people of history.



A woodsman was once asked, “What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?” He answered, “I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.” Let us take a few minutes to sharpen our perspective.



Option game is broken into 3 types of option attacks, veer, load and midline, based on the overhang of the defense and invert players the QB can begin to read and break down the defense, if he deals the right hand house wins, we are always letting him put us in house odds. If there is no overhand defender the QB will call veer to that side to a two man surface, if there is no outside invert player to the a three man surface (TE side or overload tackle side) we will call load option. Most defenses try to counter this by adding a 3 tech with a wide 9 to keep contain on veer or use dual overhand defenders the recent addition of the college tight front these days with the dual overhang defenders and double 4i's we lean on midline option to attack this front.



Quarterback will be checked into this play by me, because we are tempo check with me team, it has become a big advantage, but once we're checked into our play now our hours of drilling the mesh over and over begins to show if we have fruit born from our labor or if we didn't sharpen the right axe. He reads the unblocked defender, feeding the the back, swinging the bat from hip to hip an either giving the ball to our back or pulling it himself.



Pro's we're putting our QB in the right position with the right odds, but in the end it is a teenage boy who thinks fortnite and what color shoes match their backpack swag is more important than watching film late at night some times so in the end it is a kid out there so if you are an option team, this is what you are, you own it, and you work it over and over again. The big pros are we can get huge explosive plays and when we are running this style of offense our two best athletes are our QB and our RB, we want them touching the ball the most and giving us the best chance on Friday Nights.