08-06-2024, 09:54 AM
(08-06-2024, 09:42 AM)Soonerpeace Wrote: You are one of the best X’s and O’s guys on here. They don’t run a lot of stuff because teams don’t respect our run game. A lot of the RPO stuff and under center stuff they still play it as a pass. Especially the rush end. Until we can run the ball effectively they aren’t going to expose Joe. The offense is restricted because they have to protect Joe. Or they can’t expose him at all. And it’s because they don’t trust the protection. They’ve had to play that way too long. There’s a reason he gets the ball out of his hands quicker than the rest of the QB’s. But all that limits the scheme.
If they could finally run the ball well and protect Joe I think the offense would be more diverse.
It's not quite binary like that. Defenders can't play a run fake like a pass play because they are leaving their gap responsibility which then opens up the run game for gashing you. Run game effectiveness doesn't really affect RPO or play-action effectiveness. They simply work because of the responsibilities of the back seven. Personally, I think a fair criticism of Burrow is that he doesn't do that great of a job trying to sell the fake which is why I think there was a shift last season of running more RPOs instead of play-action. A common Burrow play-action in shotgun is snap --> flash the ball --> set up to throw. It's not all that convincing.
