Offense
Installing The Option Game Without Losing Your Offense
Option football rewards teams that install it in order. Here is the progression the playbooks use — and where the option fits alongside what you already run.
Option is a teaching progression, not a play
The complete option game playbook treats the option as a system you install in sequence: the read, the pitch relationship, the blocking rules, then the formation variations that stress a defense differently without changing the reads for your players.
Take it to the next level
A separate title, Taking Option Football to the Next Level, picks up where the base install ends — how to attack fronts that have seen it, how to marry the option to your play-action tree, and how to keep the quarterback upright across a season.
Fold it into what you run
The library includes manuals on combining spread formations, run and pass options, Wing-T and RPOs into one explosive offense, and on combining spread, option, Wing-T and traditional run and pass into a single offense across 347 pages of formations, play action, drop back, sprint out and a no-huddle approach using codes. If you already have an identity, these are the titles that let you add option football without starting over.
Where to start
Coaches new to option football should begin with the complete option game playbook. Coaches with an existing option package usually get more out of the combination titles or the Pistol Wing-T material, which shows the same reads out of a different backfield.
Put it on paper
Every idea here is drawn from the coaching library — X-and-O diagrams, install progressions and the coaching points that make a scheme hold up.