Class 5/6 Flexbone

[MIZ...ZOU]

So the Lamar method for winning seven straight titles? I hear it works great!

(Guess they’ll just have to dry their tears over how boring they are with those seven banners...)

And it's so easy to replicate. What makes me lol are these guys that act like its a given. For every WC there are 10 teams running the same offense not doing squat. Run the ball and play great defense gives you chance to win i get it but lets not act like scheme is more important than culture and players.

 

[freezeoption]

Flexbone can be double slots, or you can have a TE with multiple recievers, to me flexbone is a offense more than formation because you can run any formation with multiple recievers or backs because you have broken the wishbone, so you still have that fullback behind qb. Your formation is a double wing open formation which is used in dw football but not as common as double tight. Dw is also a offense and formation. So you can be a option offense and run a double tight double wing formation or you could run the dw out of an open offense. So, your picture posted would not lead me to thing double wing in the dw offense but is an option. Got it.

http://files.leagueathletics.com/Im...iate/Double Wing Offense by Coach Gregory.pdf

 

[BobbyMiles18]

Flexbone can be double slots, or you can have a TE with multiple recievers, to me flexbone is a offense more than formation because you can run any formation with multiple recievers or backs because you have broken the wishbone, so you still have that fullback behind qb. Your formation is a double wing open formation which is used in dw football but not as common as double tight. Dw is also a offense and formation. So you can be a option offense and run a double tight double wing formation or you could run the dw out of an open offense. So, your picture posted would not lead me to thing double wing in the dw offense but is an option. Got it.

http://files.leagueathletics.com/Images/Club/3392/Offense/Intermediate/Double Wing Offense by Coach Gregory.pdf

I was getting criticized like I didnt know that the georgia tech flexbone is different from the Delaware Wing-T when I was simply referring to the formation, not the system.
Either way, MOST flexbone and "double wing" teams are heavy on the run. They pass to keep you honest. Thats not what I call a balanced offense in MOST cases. I don't enjoy watching that style of football. Sorry.
Army. Navy. Air Force. Double Yawn.

 

[freezeoption]

There are many ways to skin a cat. I figured you knew but some do not. A school that I was at that ran flexbone, their base formation was a nasty split te with a wing inside of that and then on the nub side a wing outside the tackle and then a split end that was way out there. Then we motioned to different formations if needed. I automatically think of that formation when I think flexbone. Whatever you want to run.

 

[Sleepless_in_Jefferson_County]

I was getting criticized like I didnt know that the georgia tech flexbone is different from the Delaware Wing-T when I was simply referring to the formation, not the system.
Either way, MOST flexbone and "double wing" teams are heavy on the run. They pass to keep you honest. Thats not what I call a balanced offense in MOST cases. I don't enjoy watching that style of football. Sorry.
Army. Navy. Air Force. Double Yawn.

Balance isn't just throwing 50% of the time.

If I've got 4 backs each getting 12 carries for 80-120 yards is that not balanced?

 

[Mitsurugi san]

And it's so easy to replicate. What makes me lol are these guys that act like its a given. For every WC there are 10 teams running the same offense not doing squat. Run the ball and play great defense gives you chance to win i get it but lets not act like scheme is more important than culture and players.

Sorry (legit). Was not trying to make it sound like what Lamar has done is easy to duplicate; was just commenting on the notion that what teams like Lamar do is boring or unexciting (or that it somehow sets football back 50 years).

I will say this about high school programs that win consistently with the run game: At least part of their consistency (and maybe a BIG part, at that) is that unlike spread teams, run-first teams aren’t having to replace an accurate QB every couple years (something that is, IMO, harder to replace than a backfield); similarly, multi-back, misdirection running systems (unlike feature back, zone systems) aren’t reliant on replacing one stud back.

Just food for thought

Also, a “wing” is only a “wing” by definition if they are outside the tight end; if the end receiver is split out and the “wingback” is inside of them, they are technically a “slotback” or “slot receiver” (difference between “wing” and “slot” )

 

[BobbyMiles18]

Sorry (legit). Was not trying to make it sound like what Lamar has done is easy to duplicate; was just commenting on the notion that what teams like Lamar do is boring or unexciting (or that it somehow sets football back 50 years).

I will say this about high school programs that win consistently with the run game: At least part of their consistency (and maybe a BIG part, at that) is that unlike spread teams, run-first teams aren’t having to replace an accurate QB every couple years (something that is, IMO, harder to replace than a backfield); similarly, multi-back, misdirection running systems (unlike feature back, zone systems) aren’t reliant on replacing one stud back.

Just food for thought

Also, a “wing” is only a “wing” by definition if they are outside the tight end; if the end receiver is split out and the “wingback” is inside of them, they are technically a “slotback” or “slot receiver” (difference between “wing” and “slot” )

If they are tight to the emlos you can call them whatever name you want, but they are still wings. All you have done is move a TE out wide. Huge diff. Next you will tell me, thats not an H back, thats a sniffer. Nothing new under the sun boys.

 

[Graphic Edge Guy]

unlike spread teams, run-first teams aren’t having to replace an accurate QB every couple years (something that is, IMO, harder to replace than a backfield); similarly, multi-back, misdirection running systems (unlike feature back, zone systems) aren’t reliant on replacing one stud back.

Just food for thought

Also, a “wing” is only a “wing” by definition if they are outside the tight end; if the end receiver is split out and the “wingback” is inside of them, they are technically a “slotback” or “slot receiver” (difference between “wing” and “slot” )

You make some excellent points here

 

[BobbyMiles18]

A lot of the class 5/6 schools don’t have the talent to run it, either.

Most do. They just don't know how to teach it. Just like some coaches don't know how to teach the option game.

 

[Graphic Edge Guy]

Most do. They just don't know how to teach it. Just like some coaches don't know how to teach the option game.

If you don't have the same level of talent as everybody else...and you try and win the same types of schemes as everybody else...it AIN'T gonna work.

This is the main reason that Georgia Tech and all the the Service Academies run the flexbone...to try and level the playing field.