The Drop Option 8man Football

The overall concept of this highly successful scheme is to loosen up the secondary with a mimic pass route and run the option game behind it.

You can run the Drop from double tight and behind your best pass routes. Plus with all the counter plays to the Drop you do not have to have a great passing team to make it work. We combine the Drop with a passing game and trapping game.

Usually we have uncovered linemen show pass block before they go on their blocking assignments. Often when the guards are uncovered vs. the 3-2 they will flash their hands and show pass before blocking the LBs to their sides.

Adding the Drop with a crack back block on the playside Lb is lethal and doesn’t even have to be a true crack-back type block.  We also run a double crack Drop option play where we crack both the playside LB and the Safety.

What makes the drop work so well is a combination of the defense’s reaction to pass and the counter plays that can be run from the Drop scheme.

This is an absolute killer scheme that can be run at any level of play in either 8man or 11man football.