Read Option

[Yuma Cactus]

Watching SF/SEA/WAS excel with the read option I believe most teams will spend some time working on defensing it in Training Camp. Likely only SEA and Was did any real work against it in camp in 2012. It is a copy cat league and I'm sure there will be more teams trying a form of it and drafting QB's who can run it in the future.
Will it go the way of the Wildcat, or evolve into a more dominant force NFL wide?
IMO it will go the way of the wildcat after the spotlight of success shines on it and Defenses teach to stop it more than a few days before they play a team that runs it.

[Titleist]

Just a fad that will pass after a year or two like the Wildcat. There is no substitute for a pocket passing.

[ABQcowboyJR]

I think it will stick around for a little while. San fran and seattle seem to have a good balance with it. They don't run it all the time like the foreskins do. If its just a sub set in the play book i think it can work.

[LatinMind]

Originally Posted by ABQcowboyJR

I think it will stick around for a little while. San fran and seattle seem to have a good balance with it. They don't run it all the time like the foreskins do. If its just a sub set in the play book i think it can work.

It will stick around. But teams will have the film to break it down. This is basically the first yr teams have ran in exclusively. Next yr im willing to bet these players numbers go down. And their mistakes go up

[juck]

Johnny Manziel Is gonna dominate in the NFL.

[theogt]

Originally Posted by Titleist

Just a fad that will pass after a year or two like the Wildcat. There is no substitute for a pocket passing.

Agreed.

[LatinMind]

Originally Posted by juck

Johnny Manziel Is gonna dominate in the NFL.

[Vanilla2]

It's the perfect offense.

The way the rules have been set up to protect QBs they almost have an unfair advantage over the d.

also the QB slide should be removed from the rule books if these guys are gonna be used in that manner.

[Rack Bauer]

Originally Posted by theogt

Agreed.

I hope so. I HATE seeing that crap in the NFL. Feels like I'm watching college (I love cfb btw). But with my luck the NFL with wussify the game even more making that crap even more feasible.

Oh, and I think the whole "Slide rule" should be negated if the QB is running the ball off a DESIGNED running play. None of that sliding feet first crap if you want to run the option.

[DFWJC]

Defenses will adapt quickly.
Btw, 4-3 and zone are both better equipped to defend it

[SkinsHokieFan]

Originally Posted by Rack Bauer

I hope so. I HATE seeing that crap in the NFL. Feels like I'm watching college (I love cfb btw). But with my luck the NFL with wussify the game even more making that crap even more feasible.

Oh, and I think the whole "Slide rule" should be negated if the QB is running the ball off a DESIGNED running play. None of that sliding feet first crap if you want to run the option.

The 49ers are about to win a Super Bowl running the read option pistol formation offense. This offense is the future of the nfl due to the post snap ability to read defenses that it gives qbs. Impossible to stop

[windward]

Originally Posted by DFWJC

Defenses will adapt quickly.
Btw, 4-3 and zone are both better equipped to defend it

I agree. There's a reason we made a philosophical change in our schemes.

[SkinsHokieFan]

Originally Posted by DFWJC

Defenses will adapt quickly.
Btw, 4-3 and zone are both better equipped to defend it

How do defenses adapt to this? And a zone defense being run will give you more Alfred Morris 200 yard 3 TD performances. QBs will hand off over and over and take the easy 5 to 7 yards

[Yuma Cactus]

I guess you missed the week 16 beatdown the Buzzards gave the Whiners. IMO it is because Seattle has played against the read option every day..... I'm thinkin' that Breakable Bob might have other ideas about "unstoppable".

[juck]

Originally Posted by LatinMind

U watch. Manziel runs this offense ridiculously well. He is an accurate arm. And scrambles and runs faster than any of these dudes.