jim Leavitt gave Dave Wannstedt pointers on how to stop the read option. Pitt played a 4-3 defense. Leavitt always used a 50 defense.
As a defensive coach at Kansas State from 1990 to 1995, South Florida coach Jim Leavitt went up against the Nebraska option attack six times. So the Times asked Leavitt if he could give a...
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The read-option in a quick hit. Stopping it is just as quick to explain. Option quarterbacks want what's called a fast read. They want the defense to crash hard into the backfield. The quicker the defender reveals his intentions, the quicker the QB can make his read and get on with the play. A fast read also, generally speaking, means the higher chance for a mistake from the defense. And mistakes are what the read-option feeds off of.
So, instead of a fast read, the edge players facing a read-option offense need to give the quarterback a slow read. That may sound crazy telling football players to slow down but it works.
The outside linebacker and defensive end flow into the backfield like a wave, one after the other, as soon as they read run. Here's the slow-play principle discussed before. The linebacker doesn't run wild and crazy into the backfield. He's patient, uses his vision and waits to commit to the ball-carrier until the defensive end fleshes out the play.
The quarterback can run the option with the slot receiver as his pitch back if the ball isn't given to the running back.
Had Rod made adjustments instead of day dreaming about his next job he could have won easily.
Running the triple option.
The quarterback can run the option with the slot receiver as his pitch back if the ball isn't given to the running back.
We have four true options on this play:
1. The quarterback gives to the running back.
2. The quarterback keeps the ball.
3. The quarterback runs an outside option with the slot receiver.
4. The quarterback throws a quick pass to a tight end streaking up the seam made possible because the motion of the slot receiver will bring the nickel back out of position on this side of the field and cause the safety to track away from the middle of the field.
Four options, one play all you need is the defense to make a mistake and a quarterback smart enough to see it. This play isn't new by any means. Urban Meyer ran this early and often at Utah. Paul Johnson ran a variation of the play out of his double-wing offense at Georgia Tech. Clemson, under offensive coordinator Chad Morris, had run the play with success.
The purpose of many modern offensive schemes is to confuse the defense and get the ball into the hands of play makers. This triple-option look does just that.