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Why is it all Rivera's fault?

megadeth078

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panthers55 Grand Master

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You don't think the fact our OL looked different and quit using 12 personel as our main package played a bigger role than teams "figuring out" the read option.

The Golden Calf of Bristol, RG, Wilson, Kapernick and Cam all run the zone read successfully.

If it is run a couple times a game it is fine. Anyone run it as their primary offense? As for 12 personnel we went to 22 personnel and sometimes 21 personnel. Instead of a second tight end lined up in the backfield we went with a fullback. Frankly the same blocking scheme. If you looked at our offense in the read option you could see that the DEs crashed down and read Newton waiting to crunch him or the running back while Newton was supposedly reading them.

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If it is run a couple times a game it is fine. Anyone run it as their primary offense? As for 12 personnel we went to 22 personnel and sometimes 21 personnel. Instead of a second tight end lined up in the backfield we went with a fullback. Frankly the same blocking scheme. If you looked at our offense in the read option you could see that the DEs crashed down and read Newton waiting to crunch him or the running back while Newton was supposedly reading them.

the reason it didn't work was because blocking sucked and the OL wasn't trained on how to block for an option and the only time it was used was on running plays. it was obvious. had we been able to block better and done more than run the ball out of that formation it would have worked better.

the reason it didn't work was the same reason our running game ceased being effective when davidson was the OC...the run game and offense as a whole was predictable, unbalanced, and didn't have all the personnel needed to make work what davidson intended.

read option is just another running play and the things that limit it are the same things that limit any running plays or run first offense.

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