10-18-2018, 03:42 PM
I'm hardly an expert but I think that RPOs are exclusively run out of the shotgun (hard to read a defense with your back to them). If you're trying to diagnose whether a play is a playfake or real RPO you need to read the line, if they're all pass blocking it's not a RPO, if it's a mix of run and pass blocking then it is a RPO (this just happened on today's "Belichick Breakdown", one of Mahomes's interceptions came on a play that looked like an RPO so the host asked Belichick if it was, and he pointed out that they were all pass blocking so it was just play action).
It's tough to say if adding them in would be helpful to us, but the main problem is that running one a handful of times a game isn't going to be a large change, and adding in more than that at this point is probably difficult. It's also not clear to me if asking the line to do two separate things is going to help anything when our big problem is that they're not playing well.
It's tough to say if adding them in would be helpful to us, but the main problem is that running one a handful of times a game isn't going to be a large change, and adding in more than that at this point is probably difficult. It's also not clear to me if asking the line to do two separate things is going to help anything when our big problem is that they're not playing well.