Any football coach with experience agrees: The Triple Option is one of the biggest pains any defensive coordinator can face on gameday.
Here's the issue: How do you stop the triple option with only a few days of practice AND without throwing your whole base defensive scheme out the window?
A lot of coaches see it once a year, panic-install a gimmick, and hope they can solve in five days an option scheme that has been perfected over decades.
Coach Brett Hickman has defended the Flexbone Triple Option Offense 22 times at the college level (that's two full seasons worth of games against one offense). In this video series he breaks down every rep, including the plays he'd like to forget.
Watch as Coach Hickman explains how he's built a year-round system without any special last-minute gimmicks, just a repeatable system for fitting the option with the kinds of calls you already run.
Get two hours worth of clinic talk with Defending the Triple Option: The Complete Series.
Defending the Triple Option: The Complete Series
Topics covered include:
- Triggers over assignments: The single biggest mental shift in option defense, so your players fit the real scheme instead of chasing a QB-dive-pitch chart that's wrong most of the time
- The back-to-front install sequence: Fix the perimeter before you ever touch the front, so you stop getting cracked, wheeled, and pitched around the edge
- The long feather vs. short feather distinction — when your overhang is "pitch-to-QB" versus "QB-to-pitch," and why getting it backwards gets you killed
- Filmed with real game tape AND spring/fall practice reps — including freshmen and backups, so you see exactly how it's taught and what it looks like when it breaks
- The exact practice rep schedule (twice in spring, twice in fall camp, every three weeks in-season) that keeps it sharp without stealing time from your real install
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Defending the Triple Option - Part 1
Topics covered include:
- The cross-key system for your back four that's replaced near-man reading, why he switched after "seven or eight years" and what it fixed
- Tower — the Georgia-stolen wrinkle that adds an extra hat to the alley without flipping to a 3-high look
- The exact practice rep schedule that keeps it sharp without stealing time from your real install
- And more!
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Defending the Triple Option - Part 2
Topics covered include:
- The four core schemes every flexbone team carries and the one tell (the track of the back) that lets you ID them instantly.
- String the ball out, don't charge the mesh: the counterintuitive timing principle (from a former option QB) that forces edge blockers to hold too long and creates the negative plays you need
- The service-academy lesson: why Army, Navy, and Air Force all base out of an odd front to defend option and what that tells you about how to build your own plan
- And more!
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