03-17-2013, 09:36 PM
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Pro Bowl
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 5,662
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Re: To Read Option, or Not
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Originally Posted by HailGreen28
RG is a very good passer, but he will also be a running QB whether we run the read-option of not. Again as others have said many times, RG took the worst hits scrambling, not on the read-option.
So the question is, does the read-option increase the chance of RG taking vicious shots? Last season says that the confusion and hesitation inflicted on opposing defenses actually reduced the risk.
If you want to reduce RG's vulnerabilities as a running QB, you have to make him stop scrambling, extending plays, and running upfield on broken plays. That's why running QBs don't last, before and since the read-option was introduced to the NFL.
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So...what's your expectation for our boy?
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