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Triple Option is a 30 play situational playsheet built almost entirely around triple option style backfields, and it is one of the most specialized offensive sheets in Madden. There are no shotgun, pistol, or standard pro sets here. Every snap comes from two formations: Flexbone carries 21 plays (70 percent) across three sets, and Wishbone carries the remaining 9 plays (30 percent) in a single set. That makes it bigger than most of the game's 42 offensive franchise playsheets. It is also the only playbook in the game that carries Wishbone, and one of just 2 of the game's 236 playbooks with Flexbone.
The game plan is ground first and misdirection driven. Option reads like Cntr Option and dive concepts out of Flexbone are designed to put defenders in conflict. Downhill looks like Double Lead out of Wishbone pile blockers into the box. The passing menu stays tight on purpose: play action, Cover 3 beaters, Flood, Post, Streak, Speed Out, Flat, Deep Cross, and Crosser concepts. These shots are meant to punish safeties and linebackers who crash on the triple threat backfield, not to carry the offense on their own.
Picking Triple Option gets you formations opponents almost never practice against. Your three back alignments stretch the defense's run fits horizontally and vertically before the snap. With only 30 (3 RB, 0 TE, 2 WR) and 32 (3 RB, 2 TE, 0 WR) personnel, you also trade formation variety for a coherent identity where every run and every play action pass looks the same pre snap.
Triple Option wants a mobile quarterback with strong carrying and ball security, a stable of quick, elusive running backs who can handle both dive and pitch duties, and physical run blockers up front plus two blocking tight ends for the Wishbone package. It fits a patient, clock controlling play caller who is comfortable reading defensive keys pre snap and winning with volume rushing rather than a pass happy franchise player who needs spread formations to move the ball.
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Build your base audible package around the three Flexbone sets, keeping Cntr Option as the primary 1st and 10 call and a dive concept as your answer when the defense widens its edge defenders.
Save the single Wishbone set for 3rd and short, 4th and 1, and goal line situations, where Double Lead and other downhill runs out of 32 personnel give you extra blockers at the point of attack.
On 2nd and medium after a successful dive or option run, audible to a Flexbone play action Post or Streak because the safety will be cheating down to fill the run fit.
When facing a Cover 3 look on 3rd and 6 or longer, reach for the Flood or Deep Cross concepts and hot route the backfield release to a Flat or Speed Out to stretch the flat defender.
Mix Flexbone and Wishbone within the same drive so the opponent cannot match personnel, and use motion from a slot back in Flexbone to reveal man or zone before deciding whether to keep the option or take the pitch.
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