RGIII undergoing total reconstructive surgery: out 6-8 months

The problem is that he's carrying out the fakes and the defense doesn't know he doesn't have the ball. They aren't going to penalize the defense on this. They didn't the whole season.

youre describing the RGIII pre-concusssion. Post-concussion, RGIII started turning towards defenders while holding his hands up to make it clear he doesnt have the ball - if they still hit him, they get flagged. Wilson and Kaepernick picked up on it and do the same thing. Its almost comical to watch. These QBs completely fool defenders (and even the cameraman) and make them think they have the ball, the defenders come in as if theyre going to get a sack/tackle, and then the QBs show empty hands in the defenders face. I view it as a fun/legal/necessary form of taunting.

I think the d-coordinators will eventually just tell the DE to go straight for the QB, and ignore the RB and the fake.

I think the d-coordinators will eventually just tell the DE to go straight for the QB, and ignore the RB and the fake.

You're basically taking the DE out of the play then, which is what the offense wants. How is that going to stop anything? The QB would just hand it off all day and gash the D.

I'm pretty surprised to hear such simple-minded response from someone like Parcells...or a player like Taylor.

I was expecting them to say things like "teams will look for DEs with speed" or "teams will be using a DB as a spy more often". You know, more football talk rather than a simple/stupid "just hit the QB" answer.

My question is what was stopping them from doing that this year then?

You can't just give up 15 yard roughing penalties all day.

Exactly.

I'm pretty surprised to hear such simple-minded response from someone like Parcells...or a player like Taylor.

I was expecting them to say things like "teams will look for DEs with speed" or "teams using a DB as a spy more often". You know, more football talk rather than a simple/stupid "just hit the QB" answer.

I've seen other so called experts saying the same thing. I just keep coming back to so why didn't anyone use this so called tactic this year??

I've seen other so called experts saying the same thing. I just keep coming back to so why didn't anyone use this so called tactic this year??

Apparently the launch date for stopping the impossible is the 2013 season. They are just hyping it up. Lol.

I just cant imagine any of the DC's that got burned this year by the read option saying "oh my God I figured it out, next year when teams do that were just going to hit the qb everytime no matter what!"
Its actually absurd.

You're basically taking the DE out of the play then, which is what the offense wants. How is that going to stop anything? The QB would just hand it off all day and gash the D.

That's true. But we all know how sensitive everyone will be when QB's start getting hit.

I just cant imagine any of the DC's that got burned this year by the read option saying "oh my God I figured it out, next year when teams do that were just going to hit the qb everytime no matter what!"
Its actually absurd.

Only tactic they got is to try and scare RG3 and other mobile QB's. Actually if they send someone after the QB intentionally every time, the read option will work even better for guys like Morris. So I say bring it! It wont work against us.