Flexbone or Split Back Veer
- Thread starter Gubba Bump Shrimp
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Flexbone pistol. You can motion and run just about everything you can out of splitback and its really easy to go wide and spread the defense. Even if you rarely do it the opposing coach must spend time coaching against it. Motion to trips, rocket toss, jet sweep, midline, veer, motion to I and all out of one formation gives lots of options. Of course there's a chance to get carried away with it too and do nothing well. Just my opinion.
Don't know that one is superior to the other, just personal preference. I know people do it, but in my opinion, outside veer is not very good out of flexbone due to the angle of the B back. Both are great offenses, just depends on what you want to do.
Have coached both. Flexbone gives you more options in terms of blocking. But you better have two wings that can absolutely block. Georgia Tech and Navy are explosive in the Flex Bone because their smaller wings can cut which is a very effective block for this offense. In high school with no cutting beyond the line of scrimmage the defense has the advantage on the wings in terms of leverage. In split back you can use a larger player (TE) to do the blocking that a smaller back may have struggled with. Each has their advantages and personnel usually is the difference.
I've coached in a flexbone and at a couple of wishbone programs. Have not coached at a split back school, have coached against several and have studied yeoman's and rice's offense. Not being able to run the outside veer in flex is a myth. You have to adjust line splits a little, my linemen always have different splits any way according to what we were doing. You get your leverage by motion in the flex. You can use it for misdirection, a lot like dw, both offenses have pluses and negatives.
