CoachWiley1
Six-man fan
I have heard about a flexbone triple option offense called the "sainted six" does anyone have this playbook or can help me get this playbook ?
"Sainted Six"
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Roach
Six-man expert
Are you talking about the OBrien offense?
CoachWiley1
Six-man fan
Not sure, it was referred to me as the Sainted Six
Tigerfan85
Six-man master
That’s new to me.
CoachWiley1
Six-man fan
Me too but I am looking for something to install because the offense we ran worked but im looking to do something different and this came up so now I am trying to see if it is a thing, im fairly new to the sixman coaching game and looking for something that I can use thats effective
Coachporter
Six-man fan
Ive heard that referred with like an 11 man youth offense, but nothing with 6 man.
Jones26
Six-man expert
I consider myself an "option" guy, and I've never heard of this term before. And I have looked up all kinds of option football. If you find something, let me know! Would love to check it out!
Coach_Tarp
Six-man fan
Randomly, I saw a clip probably 10 years ago of a team in a J-Bird look who ran a triple option offense.
QB would open up and hand off to FB running behind him.
RB would then come downhill and be the "dive" option of the triple with the FB reading the EMOL.
QB, after handing off to FB, would circle all the way around and become the "pitch" phase if the FB kept.
I have no memory of the blocking scheme, but I imagine you could run it similar to inside veer? Maybe a down blocking scheme to handle the weakside edge.
Creative! A bit unhinged, but creative.
QB would open up and hand off to FB running behind him.
RB would then come downhill and be the "dive" option of the triple with the FB reading the EMOL.
QB, after handing off to FB, would circle all the way around and become the "pitch" phase if the FB kept.
I have no memory of the blocking scheme, but I imagine you could run it similar to inside veer? Maybe a down blocking scheme to handle the weakside edge.
Creative! A bit unhinged, but creative.
Roach
Six-man expert
Thats basically just a different (closer/tighter) formation way to run the Obrien. I have the Obrien offense and there is very old film of it i believe on this site.
Roach
Six-man expert
Jones26
Six-man expert
Strawn in the late 90's ran it, I believe.
Jones26
Six-man expert
That's basically how you block it, yes.
CoachWiley1
Six-man fan
That may be where it came from but if there is something similar in 6 man is what im looking for
CoachWiley1
Six-man fan
IS there anyway you can share it with me or is it just the video ?
Coach_Tarp
Six-man fan
THIS was an entertaining way to spend my lunchbreak, wow. Thanks for sharing.
Lots of reactions to that:
1) Its funny how some of it looks very similiar to modern day spread offenses. Sometimes looks like old school triple. Sometimes it looks like the Q plays like a modern day H-Back in 11personnel offenses. Crazy how creative that is for the time period? Makes the stuff we see on our schedule seem very vanilla.
2) I am not a 6 man historian, so forgive me for this question. When I hear the term O'Brien it seems to be people talking about a unbalanced shotgun look based on running a sweep / hammer type of play and counters off of that. Am I wrong that people call this unbalanced look O'Brien? Or when I hear O'Brien are they talking about the crazy double exchange stuff from the above video?
Roach
Six-man expert
That is the original Obrien offense from the film. Others could be variations of it. And no problem! Always fun to watch some cool old games.
Roach
Six-man expert
I can, i will see if I have it saved on my email or if not I can always do the printouts
CoachWiley1
Six-man fan
Roach
Six-man expert
Im busy at the moment but will send ot your way as soon as I can.
Tigerfan85
Six-man master
Roach, I remember Newcastle running that offense in the 80’s. You can find some film on them in Leman’s YouTube sixman football. They were pretty good at it.
