The Triple Option

[BigDikCane]

If Paul could recruit that offense would be **** to stop

 

[CaneSince4Ever]

By the way... Calvin Johnson played in a Triple option.

No He didn't, CJ played in a different offense under Chan Gailey. I think you have CJ mixed up with Damaryius Thomas.

 

[DTP]

It seems like the OP has lumped all option offenses together into one "triple option" category. When you're comparing types of option offenses, there's numerous drastic differences.

What's commonly referred to as the "triple option offense" today is also known as the "flexbone". The only teams that run this system in college football are Georgia Tech, the military academies and New Mexico under Bob Davie and Georgia Southern. This offense features a QB under center with a fullback directly behind him with two wing backs lined up on each end of the O-line about a yard back. Very few players who played in this offense in college have any success in the NFL. It's also limited because your quarterback is basically just another running back who gets hit almost every play. The triple option consists of the dive, the keep or the pitch. The dive is the first option, consisting of the fullback taking the handoff right up the gut. If the dive is defended, the quarterback pulls back the handoff and has the option of running himself or lastly, pitching to a wing back who is usually running in stride with him.

There's plenty of other option offenses like the wishbone (Miami killed it). The old Nebraska I-option (Miami killed it) or the veer (another 1800's offense that led to the invention of the modern spread option. I've already gone into TLR territory so I won't bother discussing the various differences in spread option offenses. I'll just say the spread is NOT the triple option.

 

[reidz5]

By the way... Calvin Johnson played in a Triple option.

No He didn't, CJ played in a different offense under Chan Gailey. I think you have CJ mixed up with Damaryius Thomas.

Well either way it works pretty well. Triple Option has proved overtime to produce strong, dominant receivers that are ready to play in the NFL.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

 

[Ibis Wingz]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

Triple input guy turned the rubes in circles.

 

[reidz5]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

 

[pumbaa]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

Right Ty Hilton, Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham, and the rest of their type WR never do anything in the NFL. You are stupid on a very differnet level.

 

[CaneOil]

Kaaya should do swell in the triple option. I'd imagine he would transfer before he would play one down of that crap.

 

[5NC4]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

If you are talking about the modern version of the spread and read option then I agree, but the triple option is a thing of the past. You can't win without being able to pass the ball very well in today's college football.

If the Canes were able to hire Tom Herman vice Mark Richt then they would be every bit as successful as they will be with Richt. Herman had OSU humming offensively with their 3rd QB under Meyer and beat BAMA and won a NC. This year he converted 2 WR's to QB and managed to beat a FSU with a team that has less talent than them with a balanced offense.

The Pro Style purists can disagree with that if they want, but both the Pro Style or Meyer's system can be very successful here. Some believe it would be much easier to recruit for that system here due to the difficulty of finding the smartest QB's to run the sophisticated Pro Style. We went 10 years between having 2 very smart California QB's to run the system.

By the way, I believe Mullen at MSU finished in 2nd place twice to be the U head coach. As many know he won NC's under Meyer at UF. MSU has maximized it's potential under Mullen because they will NEVER be able to recruit better players there than crooked @ss Bama, LSU and Ole Miss, not to mention the other crooked programs in the SEC.

I am a huge Spread and Read Option fan. It would be extremely successful here, but I am as happy as I can be with Richt and his Pro Style, which has brought 5 NC's to this program.

 

[Cane Dynasty]

Why not just run the Flying Wedge?

By the gods ya'll have let this place turn to schit

 

[JD08]

The flying wedge. Yeah, that's the ticket, we should do the flying wedge!

Or we could let the guy with the winning record and the chip on his shoulder decide how to run the offense.

 

[reidz5]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

If you are talking about the modern version of the spread and read option then I agree, but the triple option is a thing of the past. You can't win without being able to pass the ball very well in today's college football.

If the Canes were able to hire Tom Herman vice Mark Richt then they would be every bit as successful as they will be with Richt. Herman had OSU humming offensively with their 3rd QB under Meyer and beat BAMA and won a NC. This year he converted 2 WR's to QB and managed to beat a FSU with a team that has less talent than them with a balanced offense.

The Pro Style purists can disagree with that if they want, but both the Pro Style or Meyer's system can be very successful here. Some believe it would be much easier to recruit for that system here due to the difficulty of finding the smartest QB's to run the sophisticated Pro Style. We went 10 years between having 2 very smart California QB's to run the system.

By the way, I believe Mullen at MSU finished in 2nd place twice to be the U head coach. As many know he won NC's under Meyer at UF. MSU has maximized it's potential under Mullen because they will NEVER be able to recruit better players there than crooked @ss Bama, LSU and Ole Miss, not to mention the other crooked programs in the SEC.

I am a huge Spread and Read Option fan. It would be extremely successful here, but I am as happy as I can be with Richt and his Pro Style, which has brought 5 NC's to this program.

The only problem with passing is the amount of turnovers it causes. In today's age, DB's have become far more fast, tall and strong. DE's are so athletic that it is becoming almost impossible for OL to hold their blocks. This results in a greater number of interceptions.

Interceptions are the greatest type of turnover in the game. If we can effectively reduce our interceptions to zero, we will win the turnover battle everyday with an elite defense. Turnover battles are what decide games.

 

[5NC4]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

If you are talking about the modern version of the spread and read option then I agree, but the triple option is a thing of the past. You can't win without being able to pass the ball very well in today's college football.

If the Canes were able to hire Tom Herman vice Mark Richt then they would be every bit as successful as they will be with Richt. Herman had OSU humming offensively with their 3rd QB under Meyer and beat BAMA and won a NC. This year he converted 2 WR's to QB and managed to beat a FSU with a team that has less talent than them with a balanced offense.

The Pro Style purists can disagree with that if they want, but both the Pro Style or Meyer's system can be very successful here. Some believe it would be much easier to recruit for that system here due to the difficulty of finding the smartest QB's to run the sophisticated Pro Style. We went 10 years between having 2 very smart California QB's to run the system.

By the way, I believe Mullen at MSU finished in 2nd place twice to be the U head coach. As many know he won NC's under Meyer at UF. MSU has maximized it's potential under Mullen because they will NEVER be able to recruit better players there than crooked @ss Bama, LSU and Ole Miss, not to mention the other crooked programs in the SEC.

I am a huge Spread and Read Option fan. It would be extremely successful here, but I am as happy as I can be with Richt and his Pro Style, which has brought 5 NC's to this program.

The only problem with passing is the amount of turnovers it causes. In today's age, DB's have become far more fast, tall and strong. DE's are so athletic that it is becoming almost impossible for OL to hold their blocks. This results in a greater number of interceptions.

Interceptions are the greatest type of turnover in the game. If we can effectively reduce our interceptions to zero, we will win the turnover battle everyday with an elite defense. Turnover battles are what decide games.

Your premise with turnovers is wrong. Look up how many turnovers GT and Army had last year. How many games did GT win last year now that everybody has caught back up with that antiquated offense.

The Miami Hurricanes forced Nebraska to change their offense forever. After the Canes blueprinted how to stop them to all of college football they were never the same again.

The only teams other than GT doing the offenses you speak of successfully are service academies who are forced to use undersized players due to height/weight requirements in the military. No team in college football that runs the triple option (that would include the Canes if the changed to the antiquated system) will ever win a championship or even be in the running to win one.

As you should know, teams load up the LOS and stop that antiquated system on 1st and 2nd down and force them to do what they don't do well on third down. Any team that runs the newer version of what you speak of knows they must be an equal threat to run or pass out of their formations or else they will not be successful. All of the newer versions put their QB in the gun more often than not. Even the powerful running system Meyer employs at OSU has their QB in the gun. Meyer understands that his offense must have a threat to pass the ball.

ALL OF THE BEST CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING TEAMS IN COLLEGE AND PRO FOOTBALL HAVE CLOSE TO A 50/50 RUN/PASS SPLIT. That even goes for the latest dynasty in college football...Alabama.

 

[westcoastcanes]

Seriously the best thread I have read on this site in what seems like months.

 

[reidz5]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

If you are talking about the modern version of the spread and read option then I agree, but the triple option is a thing of the past. You can't win without being able to pass the ball very well in today's college football.

If the Canes were able to hire Tom Herman vice Mark Richt then they would be every bit as successful as they will be with Richt. Herman had OSU humming offensively with their 3rd QB under Meyer and beat BAMA and won a NC. This year he converted 2 WR's to QB and managed to beat a FSU with a team that has less talent than them with a balanced offense.

The Pro Style purists can disagree with that if they want, but both the Pro Style or Meyer's system can be very successful here. Some believe it would be much easier to recruit for that system here due to the difficulty of finding the smartest QB's to run the sophisticated Pro Style. We went 10 years between having 2 very smart California QB's to run the system.

By the way, I believe Mullen at MSU finished in 2nd place twice to be the U head coach. As many know he won NC's under Meyer at UF. MSU has maximized it's potential under Mullen because they will NEVER be able to recruit better players there than crooked @ss Bama, LSU and Ole Miss, not to mention the other crooked programs in the SEC.

I am a huge Spread and Read Option fan. It would be extremely successful here, but I am as happy as I can be with Richt and his Pro Style, which has brought 5 NC's to this program.

The only problem with passing is the amount of turnovers it causes. In today's age, DB's have become far more fast, tall and strong. DE's are so athletic that it is becoming almost impossible for OL to hold their blocks. This results in a greater number of interceptions.

Interceptions are the greatest type of turnover in the game. If we can effectively reduce our interceptions to zero, we will win the turnover battle everyday with an elite defense. Turnover battles are what decide games.

Your premise with turnovers is wrong. Look up how many turnovers GT and Army had last year. How many games did GT win last year now that everybody has caught back up with that antiquated offense.

The Miami Hurricanes forced Nebraska to change their offense forever. After the Canes blueprinted how to stop them to all of college football they were never the same again.

The only teams other than GT doing the offenses you speak of successfully are service academies who are forced to use undersized players due to height/weight requirements in the military. No team in college football that runs the triple option (that would include the Canes if the changed to the antiquated system) will ever win a championship or even be in the running to win one.

As you should know, teams load up the LOS and stop that antiquated system on 1st and 2nd down and force them to do what they don't do well on third down. Any team that runs the newer version of what you speak of knows they must be an equal threat to run or pass out of their formations or else they will not be successful. All of the newer versions put their QB in the gun more often than not. Even the powerful running system Meyer employs at OSU has their QB in the gun. Meyer understands that his offense must have a threat to pass the ball.

ALL OF THE BEST CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING TEAMS IN COLLEGE AND PRO FOOTBALL HAVE CLOSE TO A 50/50 RUN/PASS SPLIT. That even goes for the latest dynasty in college football...Alabama.

I understand your point but I have to disagree. I understand the need to pass the football occasionally which is why this would work so well for Miami. At Miami we are QBU so we should not have problems running OR passing the ball.

If we can use our triple option to lure defenses into a sleep and then our scrambling QB such as a Teddy Bridgewater or Michael Vick rolls out of the pocket and then bombs one deep, we will be hard to defend. A triple option in combination with a SFLA scrambling QB and our elite WR's would be devastating. It's exactly what teams WOULDN'T expect from us so we would have the element of surprise.

 

[DC1986]

Welcome back FootballHelmet.This thread is terrible.I hope Howard Schnellenberger walks up and punches you in the face.Miami will never run the triple option,period.

 

[Canedude08]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

There's only one problem with your assertion, teams that run flexbone or wishbone based systems usually have quite limited route trees, which means that a lot of these guys can't run a route to save their life.

 

[reidz5]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

There's only one problem with your assertion, teams that run flexbone or wishbone based systems usually have quite limited route trees, which means that a lot of these guys can't run a route to save their life.

Calvin Johnson says hello.

But that's not the point I was making. What I'm saying is these receivers are generally far greater physically developed which translates well to the pros. In order to be a triple option receiver, you have to be strong and fast and also block very well. There is a reason why spread offense receivers generally do poorly in the poors.

 

[Canedude08]

Triple option guy is fūcking with you people and you're letting him.

"Strong dominant receivers" , child...

It's a known fact that receivers who play in the triple option need to be strong and block well. It's these attributes that translate to the NFL much better than small, speedier receivers that are found in spread offenses.

There's only one problem with your assertion, teams that run flexbone or wishbone based systems usually have quite limited route trees, which means that a lot of these guys can't run a route to save their life.

Calvin Johnson says hello.

But that's not the point I was making. What I'm saying is these receivers are generally far greater physically developed which translates well to the pros. In order to be a triple option receiver, you have to be strong and fast and also block very well. There is a reason why spread offense receivers generally do poorly in the poors.

I know you are a dumb troll, but this is beyond pathetic. You pointed to ONE freakishly talented receiver, who NEVER PLAYED IN THE TRIPLE OPTION. Chan Gailey ran a regular pro style offense, where Calvin was expected to run the full route tree. Spread offense receivers don't do poorly in the pros, they have a hit rate similar to people who played in pro style offenses. What matters in the NFL is whether you can run the routes, adjust to changing coverages quickly, and CATCH. If you can do that, you'll probably stick around. With the proliferation of teams running spread concepts in the NFL, spread receivers have less of a learning curve, because a true pro style passing game is becoming a thing of the past. You have a lot of guys like Antonio Brown in the league now, and that number will continue to climb as more and more colleges bring elements of the spread into play.