Do the Skins keep the read option with RG3 or scrap it?

[bobbi3stix]

I know, I've beem seeing alot of Star Trek scenes posted in the tailgate lately.

I almost didn't catch that one, but I was referring to females

[DiscoBob]

griffin didn't get hurt on any read option plays, and its presence does three key things:

1) gets us pretty reliable yards

2) consumes a large portion of the other team's defensive preparation during the week despite making up only being used a handful of times per game and

3) overloads the minds of defenders during the game with all the stuff they have to worry about, opening them up to more opportunities to be indecisive or make mistakes. i would bet those long bombs griffin kept throwing with the receiver wiiiide open (niles paul, moss, robinson all got in on it) were due to the threat of the read option.

....and it still does all these things if the QB only keeps it a very limited number of times (see San Fan vs Atlanta). I don't understand why you would scrap it when it works so effectively, even if the QB only keeps it 1-2 times a game. When Griff is the QB and is a threat to take it to the house, it's worth 1-2 runs a game for the advantage it brings. You just have to train the QB to go slide or go out of bounds at the right time. I'm confident that Griffin can be taught to do this...