Army: Defending The Option
The option is great, but it requires discipline to defend.
When the option is run perfectly, it is a thing of beauty. Sure, any football play can be described thusly, but the because the option is designed to make the defense wrong every time (with all eleven players involved in this purpose directly) and nothing quite approaches the perfect pitch back to a sprinting wingback with green grass ahead of him.
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