Airyx Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 The talking heads often call the Redskins' offense a read-option offense. This is a collection of Alfred Morris' longer runs. Tough dude, fun to watch. http://youtu.be/1y03-lYvJjE Lets categorize each play and see how many Read-Option plays there are... 1 = Point Of Attack Counter - Not R/O - Gibbs Style 2 = Inside Zone - Not R/O...Shanny/Terrell Davis Style 3 = Outside Zone - Not R/O...More Terrell Davis Style...awesome toughness 4 = Inside Zone - Bounced Out - Not R/O 5 = Read-Option! 6 = Inside Zone 7 = Screen - CB's nightmare 8 = Outside Zone...knocking Panthers over like bowling pins 9 = Inside Zone - Eagles afraid to hit Morris 10 = Point of Attack = Gibbs Style 11 = Outside Zone 12 = Read Option...only the 2nd one on this list. 13 = Read Option 14 = Point of Attack with an H-Back...Gibbs patented this one 15 = Outside Zone 16 = Inside Zone - Outstanding downfield blocking against Eagles 17 = Fake Outside, then Inside zone 18 = Outside Zone 19 = Inside Zone, Bounced 20 = Outside Zone 21 = Read Option 22 = Outside Zone 23 = Outside Zone 24 = Inside Zone 25 = Outside zone Of these 25: 3 = Gibbs Style 4 = Read Option 18 = Shanahan standard zone-stretch Four out of 25 hardly is enough to call this a read-option offense. Now, to be fair...early in the season, DE's and OLBs would bite on the hand-off almost every time, so RG3 ended up keeping the ball. Only later in the season did the read-defenders start to stay at home and cause the inside hand-off on the option. Still. This is a pretty good sampling of plays that worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Great breakdown, but for some reason the video isn't working for me. EDIT: had to leave the site. Was able to click on youtube in his post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleTinyUnbornBaby Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Yeah vid doesn't work on this site... good breakdown though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_HOG Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 The video works fine for me with out leaving this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tress Is The Way Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 A great break down of what our offense truly does, now can we please put it to rest that our offense is a read option offense? Probably not, the talking heads will continuously say its a read option attack when in reality it's a beast of an offense with multiple looks. All I have to say it is a good time to be a redskins fan, HTTR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman21ST Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Good breakdown. It won't stop the talking heads from calling ours a "read option" offense though. I say let them call it whatever they want: read-option, college, fad, whatever. Doesn't make it any less potent or dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinC Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 In his presser today Kyle said the read-option accounted for about 1/3 of our running game last year. That's sounded a little high to me just based on my gut feeling I would have said a bit less. Point is as the OP shows the read option is just a part of our offense it's not the whole thing. It's an important part of the offense though as it really slows down defenses and makes them tentative especially the edge rushers. Kyle pointed out how much it has reduced the amount teams blitzed us and slowed down pass rush. Imagine that, the read option helping REDUCE the number of hits RGIII gets ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDawg Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Never understood why we'd be tagged with that label. People saw what we did with Cousins at QB, I'd assume. And that certainly wasn't read option. Shanahan's offense has always been a zone scheme on the ground and west coast in the air. He now has zone read elements and the pistol alignmet. They're calling it the East Coast Offense in its whole. That works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kindred Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Love this video. Morris is like a bowling ball going through pins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#BgMase76# Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Can't see the video or link. However as far as those who don't know I say soo what. It the opposing teams buy into it and focus their preps on it. Then itbonly makesbthe game offensively that much.lore simple. But in all seriousness, you'd better believe Coughlin, Kelly, and dallass understand the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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