Breaking Down The Army Flexbone Triple Option Offense 

In the 1980's and 1990's Nebraska had ran the I formation option winnings 3 National Championship.

We run this in high school. Made it to state 3 times in the last 4yrs with this

Really enjoyed this break down and love the Flexbone for my 4th grade tackle team. Would really enjoy if you did more of these on the Flex

Thank you very much this video was great I love option football.. a huge Oklahoma fan going all the way back to Thomas Lott and Jemele Holloway

Thank you for this excellent presentation Jason. We (our family) have been passionate Army fans since 1926. My Dad, Charles was USMA (1930). My brother, Jerry was USMA (1955)...I, too, was privileged to be an Army Officer (1966-1968). You video, here, clearly shows the nuances of the great Army Triple Option...a style of football which we believe is the purest in the country.

John...Might i also suggest checking out Hawaii offenses from 1988-1995, when Paul Johnson ran the Spread Option(variation of Flex-bone), AFA btwn 1982-95(Ken Hatfield/Fisher DeBerry-HC), Calif. De La Salle btwn 1992-2004(Bob Ladouceur-HC) & Georgia Southern(1997-2001)/USNA(2002-2007), Georgia Tech(2008-2018)...All coached by Paul Johnson. From 2007-2022, Johnson "disciple" Ken Niumatalolo was USNA HC....

I wish Ga Tech would bring this back.

Paul Johnson explained the formation is derived from the run and shoot, but he needed to make it so he could run the triple option out of it.

Thanks for this breakdown. I know this is two years old, but I thought I would comment on the first play anyway. I think this is just a fullback dive instead of a trap. The guard and center execute a fold block. To some extent, I acknowledge that I may be arguing semantics, but given that this is presumably the first play call on the opening series, this is a statement to the defense--we will run our fullback! Trap plays usually seek to widen a player out of position (on this play, if it was a trap, it would seek to widen the 4 or 4i technique DT). This play is just a mano-y-mano gut punch. I coached for many years in small towns in western kansas. Stopping this offense is tricky!

Coach in your history of the Wishbone there is one Big exception about it. Bear Bryant's wishbone teams. They threw and hurt defenses from that formation (they used a couple of others including what we call the Flexbone formation). They put three QBs in the NFL. Bryant's Wishbone was a passing threat. The games are here to explore. The Trap option is a wonderful offense as well. Used by East Carolina and Syracuse.

6:00 minutes coach Smith. Okay okay lol Great video , I gotta remember where it starts to show the Head Man.

Coach outstanding job! No, No, Wishbone. Played for the University of the Pacific(Stockton, Ca) We ran the run and shoot, west coast offense. We lacked a true 'QB', Randall Cunningham style QB-Who we played against us and ate us up as we lost using the WB! In the spring of 1985, Coach Bob Cope changed the offense to the WB and recruited JC Qbs to fit the new offense. Hugh Jackson, now a NFL coach was our QB. All of us WRs were out of jobs. We dominated the first three games because of the extreme style difference. However, by the fourth game, all the next opponents made their adjustments and we were cooked! After two years running the WB offense Coach Cope was fired. The replacement coach went back to the West Coast offense until John Gruden, then TE coach broke a few NCAA rules and which consequently killed the program. Flexbone would have been a much better alternative!

Worked on Alabama football vs Georgia southern for a bit

The wishbone doesnt let your backs hit the line as fast, and gives the defense more time to read and react to your blocking. The flexbone also functions kind of like a doubles 4wr spread in some ways, and the wishbone would not allow the skill players those favorable match ups they get with motion, and making the defense tip their hand with symmetrical formations.

We ran this in my club in Australia for a very long time. A lot defences couldn’t stop it

Art Craig has a true pistol flexbone offense. Has some really good stuff available too.

Play 1: It looks like 3 is trying to get up to the second level to push the backside ILB away from the play. He does cut off the Will. Play 3: the play side end and Sam did an amazing job of beating their blocks and stringing it out. Number 6 (ILB? SS?) of course still had to make an amazing play. That was an excellent play choice for Army and Navy needed all their skill and luck to stop it.

Flexbone? I think the formation is run more like a Double Wing T offense. It requires the wing to motion back to be tailback

I would love to see army vs Alabama

Check out Oklahoma's Wishbone and they had a great tight end by the name of Keith Jackson

They destroyed Michigan with this.

So it would be the middle linebacker defense and an outside linebacker and the backside defensive end

3 plays 7 yards 0 first downs but good blocking tho really giving the D coach something to think about.

You should Google the 80s Wishbone flexbone and check out Arkansas's flexbone check out a Oklahoma's Wishbone which was the best and check out smu's Wishbone and they passed out the wishbone in Nebraska's Wishbone

Any suggestions on where to start as far as an install if your thinking of running this at the high school level ?

Looks like the LT is engaged in what would be an illegal block in the NFL? Am I missing something?

Three four with the quarterback the two Flex wings and the running back assignments

A little too much talking for me.

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we're gonna run this straight at you and there ain't thing 1 you can do about it, football is still football isn't it??? now your considered a good running team if you can average 200 yrds. a game that doesn't sound like all that much, i remember teams averaging over 350 a game, they would literally pound it and pound it until you were decimated

Defenses wouldn't know what to do.... recently notre dame defense stuffed this offense

It’s a wing T I think.

Wanna see a high school decimate another team with this offense? Search Downs Tri Valley vs Auburn 2015 IHSA state championship. Tri Valley was at one point statistically the WORST team in Illinois back 20 years ago from what i heard.

Odessa permian still runs it

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Bro you talk to much, just let us watch the play, keep replaying it making me wanna click off

Dude spit it out you talk way too slow