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I'm watching the games today and I realized that both Seattle and Washington run the read option. Indy has a few plays they ran to get Luck in space. All 3 were in the playoffs and Carolina runs it. College run a ton of it.
I'm wondering how long people think this this type of play calling last? I think it is getting some legs in the NFL but I don't know if it will be a fad like the Wildcat...
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I'm watching the games today and I realized that both Seattle and Washington run the read option. Indy has a few plays they ran to get Luck in space. All 3 were in the playoffs and Carolina runs it. College run a ton of it.
I'm wondering how long people think this this type of play calling last? I think it is getting some legs in the NFL but I don't know if it will be a fad like the Wildcat...
Thoughts?
Now that we have been watching it you are correct its alot more prevelent in these games then I had noticed before. Alot of things I liked about a possible hire I have been watching parts of in all 4 games. Strange really that I had not noticed it before this.
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About every kid in HS and college seem to be running some form of it. My local HS aint worth a crap at it though! 
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It's here in modified way.
In time it will be here even more.
It is a certain. There aren't many HS drop back QB's. It's a 20th century O. We are now 13 years in to the 21st century.
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I believe it's great...right up until the moment a guy like RG3 or Wilson are carted off the field and lost for the year.
The fix for this is a hybrid between the spread and the wildcat where you have your backup QB who really isn't proficient at throwing but may be good enough in a pinch to run some of the ground stuff. Think a Tebow-type.
The 'Skins dodged a major bullet by not losing RG3 to multiple-ligament surgery. That hit was nasty. Just a matter of time before one of these QB's get killed, then we'll see how people react.
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A lot of high school and college programs run it because they can't find great passing QBs. This style of O can take an average QB with speed and move the chains in the amature ranks. It's really effective. So yes there is a lot more athletes to choose from. But it doesn't mean they're good enough passers to make it work on the pro level.
In the pros you need to be a proficient passer and a great decision maker. Just finding one of them has alluded us for 13 years. Now you want to find one that can also run? I don't see how this is an easier search. Now you have to hope he falls to you in the draft or have the draft to sell for this one player that may or may not make it as a pro.
Can pieces of the read option work with a less than dynamic runner? Yes. Can the read option work in the pros without an exceptional passer? No.
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Just a matter of time before one of these QB's get killed, then we'll see how people react.
That or they just put more rules in place to protect the QB.
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The thing that makes those three teams dangerous though is not just the read option, but the fact that all three of those guys are good passers... I think you can take aspects of it if you have the right QB, but long term I don't think you can run it a ton..
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Watch the beginning few drives of the Minn GB game yesterday. Minnesota was running a pure QB read option. And they were gaining 7-15 yards a pop. But they gave it up and went to trying to have Webb throw it. Ooops. lol
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Just a matter of time before one of these QB's get killed, then we'll see how people react.
That or they just put more rules in place to protect the QB.
The only thing left is a perma-red jersey.
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Watch the beginning few drives of the Minn GB game yesterday. Minnesota was running a pure QB read option. And they were gaining 7-15 yards a pop. But they gave it up and went to trying to have Webb throw it. Ooops. lol
That game is the exact example of why you can't just run the read option. Your QB has to be a threat to throw. Once GB figured out what they were doing they stopped the option pretty easily. There was no threat of the pass.
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They went away from it long before Webb had to throw it. Of course as soon as he did have to throw it, he was 10 yards over/under throwing it. lol. That was just bad. I could have done what he did for half the money.
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Webb had 3 snaps all year so I cant put too much on him.
I cant believe Ponder couldnt sack up and play in the biggest game of his career.
Didnt Cutler get blasted for the same thing last year?
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I watched Ponder warm-up. He couldn't have thrown the ball 30-yards.
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I picked the Vikings then when I watched the pregame warmups before he was announced as out, I thought damn i blew that pick and boy was I right lol.
Anyway I cant help watching this Seahags game thinking what Randall Cunningham would have done if he had been QB for either team.
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Watching Griffin out there should give people pause to using a QB so many times as a rusher.
There is viability for packages in the read-option part of the spread, but damnit, Griffin is just the first who will go down. He won't be the last.
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I believe it's great...right up until the moment a guy like RG3 or Wilson are carted off the field and lost for the year.
Well, or maybe till RG3 is finished for the 2nd time late in the season ... this time late in a playoff game? 
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I believe it's great...right up until the moment a guy like RG3 or Wilson are carted off the field and lost for the year.
Well, or maybe till RG3 is finished for the 2nd time late in the season ... this time late in a playoff game?
I agree. Read option/inside zone is great at the HS and college level. Long term, I don't think it can work in the NFL. The knock on Vick is that he cannot make it through a season. He misses 4 games per year due to injury. RG3 went down during the playoff game today. I am pretty sure that we are going to learn that RG3 tore his ACL last month and that he is getting it repaired this offseason.
NFL defenders are bigger, faster, and stronger than what QBs see on a week to week basis in college. College QBs play 13 games. NFL QBs play 16+ preseason and post season. It is a huge risk to expose your QB to those hits week in and week out.
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That or they just put more rules in place to protect the QB.
The only thing left is a perma-red jersey.
No, there's always the pleated skirt option.
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