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Ohio State Scheme Insider: Understanding Run/Pass Options (RPOs) · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Tuesday, August eleventh. I'm
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  Speaker 1: we're welcoming back in Buckeye Insiders scheme Insider Michael Pettitt
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  Speaker 1: football season right around the corner you just heard, twenty
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  Speaker 1: you watch that ball Stay game and you turn on
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  Speaker 1: TV and you're going to hear three little letters, probably
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of times those letters are OURP and oh.
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  Speaker 1: So on today's show, we're going to be doing something
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  Speaker 1: to let you know what exactly an RPO is so
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  Speaker 1: you can sort of recognize it, you can understand it.
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  Speaker 1: And when you see, I don't remember if it's a
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  Speaker 1: Fox game, may be Gus and Joel, or it'll be
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  Speaker 1: someone else talking about an RPO. You can turn to
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  Speaker 1: your friends, or your spouse or your kids and tell them. Aha,
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  Speaker 1: allow me to explain it. I already know because Michael
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  Speaker 1: Pettitt explained it to me. So Michael, let's start just
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  Speaker 1: what is an RPO and why has it been something
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  Speaker 1: that has become a real phenomenon in college football and
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  Speaker 1: even in the NFL over the last decade or so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So, an RPO, what it stands for is run
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  Speaker 2: pass option. So you know, you think of old school
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  Speaker 2: option plays, they're you know, generally run option. A quarterback
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  Speaker 2: reads someone and decides whether to hand the ball off
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  Speaker 2: or to keep it himself, and a run an RPO
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  Speaker 2: is a run pass option. So same concept. The quarterback
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  Speaker 2: is reading one guy on the defense, and depending on
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  Speaker 2: what that guy does, the quarterback is either going to
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  Speaker 2: hand the ball off or he's going to pull the
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  Speaker 2: ball and make a pass. And one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: that RPOs have become as popular as they have, in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, is just because it kind of allows for
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  Speaker 2: a way for teams who don't have, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: mobile quarterback to still run some option stuff and potentially
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  Speaker 2: put defenders in conflict because you know, as an offense,
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  Speaker 2: you always want to put defenders in positions where they're
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  Speaker 2: in conflict.
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  Speaker 1: And I think one thing that people may not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: know about an RPO is you can basically read any
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  Speaker 1: player you want to. It doesn't it's you're not just
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  Speaker 1: always reading you know, or we're only reading the mic
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  Speaker 1: linebacker and whatever he does. That's that's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: You can read any player on the defense basically, not
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  Speaker 1: not exactly everyone. You probably not going to be reading, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your your nose tackle all that often on
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  Speaker 1: an RPO. But this is something that is not just
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  Speaker 1: you have to read this guy and and no, you
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  Speaker 1: know anything anything else is just you know, completely out
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  Speaker 1: of the question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to read. You can read pretty much
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  Speaker 2: any defender. Depending on the type of RPO. It can
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  Speaker 2: be a linebacker, safety, even a corner and even in
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  Speaker 2: some cases defense then but yeah, to your point, I
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  Speaker 2: thought about it after you said it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I've ever seen an RPO where the defensive tackle
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  Speaker 2: is being read. I've seen a couple with the defensive end,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it can be anyone on the defense essentially.
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  Speaker 2: And beyond that, the RPO can be any run scheme.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can run zone with it, you can
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  Speaker 2: run counter power, ISO, whatever it is. You can attach
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  Speaker 2: any run scheme to it. And in the same vein
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  Speaker 2: you can pretty much attach any type of route schemes
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  Speaker 2: for the pass option to it as well.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned putting guys in conflict, and putting guys
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  Speaker 1: in conflict is essentially you're reading what the guy is doing,
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  Speaker 1: and then whatever he is doing and whatever he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to take away, you just do the other things. So
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  Speaker 1: this feels like something where if you run it correctly,
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  Speaker 1: at least in theory, you can always be right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in theory you can. Defenders at some point can
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  Speaker 2: get a hold of things and they can start trying
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  Speaker 2: to bait the quarterback into making the wrong reads and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But let's look at an example of an RPO here.
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  Speaker 2: I first want to go for an example of where
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  Speaker 2: the ball is handed off the r and RPO is
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  Speaker 2: what the quarterback does, and like I said, it can
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  Speaker 2: be any different run play, any different route scheme. This
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  Speaker 2: RPO is from Ohio States game against Penn State last season.
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  Speaker 2: The run scheme they're running here is ISO, or some
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  Speaker 2: people call it INSERT. So what ISO or INSERT is
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  Speaker 2: is the offensive line is trying to create a hole
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  Speaker 2: for a lead blocker to come through and be isolated
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  Speaker 2: with a one on one block and a linebacker with
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  Speaker 2: the running back following that lead blocker. So you'll see
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  Speaker 2: here if you look at the play on the screen,
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  Speaker 2: I have the defender who julians say and is reading
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  Speaker 2: circled in a red box or I should say box
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  Speaker 2: in the red box. And if he backs up or
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  Speaker 2: sits still to the then the pass Julian Saying hands
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  Speaker 2: the ball off. If he comes up to defend the run,
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  Speaker 2: Julian Saying pulls the ball and passes to that side.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're gonna see here is that safety drops
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  Speaker 2: back when the ball is snapped. Julian Saying sees that,
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  Speaker 2: so he makes the correct read to hand the ball
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  Speaker 2: off to Bo Jackson and Max player. The tight end
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  Speaker 2: is that lead blocker on the ISO run. He comes up,
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  Speaker 2: gets a good block on the Mike linebacker, and Jackson's
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  Speaker 2: able to go for about a nine yard game. And
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  Speaker 2: now if you want to look at the end zone,
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  Speaker 2: view of this play, it'll get a you can get
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  Speaker 2: a good idea of what the blocking scheme of ISO
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  Speaker 2: looks like. So you'll see the left tackle is blocking
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  Speaker 2: out on that defensive end. The left guard and the
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  Speaker 2: center are double teaming the three tech climbing over to
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  Speaker 2: that will linebacker. The right guard is blocking out in
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  Speaker 2: that other three tech. The right tackle is blocking out
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  Speaker 2: on the other defensive end. There able to create a
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  Speaker 2: nice hole for max player the tight end to slip
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  Speaker 2: through and get a good isolation block on that linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that's an example of where the guy
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  Speaker 1: they were reading was backing up. So, okay, you hand
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  Speaker 1: the ball off, but obviously if it's an option, you
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  Speaker 1: have a plan B here and if the defender gets
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  Speaker 1: a little more aggressive or is trying to get into
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  Speaker 1: the run fit, you can throw the ball right over
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  Speaker 1: his head.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So this next one, we're going to be looking
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  Speaker 2: at an example of the quarterback deciding to pass the
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  Speaker 2: ball on an RPO, which again here it's the right read.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, I have the defender being read in a
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  Speaker 2: red box on the screen here and the offense the
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  Speaker 2: run play attached to this is split zone. So you'll
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  Speaker 2: see the entire offensive line steps to their left zone
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  Speaker 2: block the tight end comes back to you know, block
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  Speaker 2: out on that defensive end, and both receivers to the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the screen are running glance routes. I glance
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  Speaker 2: rout I would describe is like a somewhere in between
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  Speaker 2: a slant in a post. And Will Howard here is
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  Speaker 2: reading the safety to the field. And bear in mind,
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  Speaker 2: this is fourth and short here, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: safety was getting, you know, a little aggressive, wanted to
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  Speaker 2: make sure he's there to clean up, and he runs,
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  Speaker 2: but you'll see he comes up when the ball is
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  Speaker 2: snapped to defend the run. So Will Howard sees that
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  Speaker 2: and he's immediately able to pull the ball and pass
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  Speaker 2: the Brandon Inis on that glance route and it was
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  Speaker 2: the perfect read. So yeah, this is a good example
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  Speaker 2: of an RPO when it passes the correct read.
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  Speaker 1: And on the last show, we talked about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we're sort of in a post spread era or
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  Speaker 1: heading towards a post spread era. Where are we on
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  Speaker 1: the scale of the RPO in the sport of football?
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  Speaker 1: Are those getting more popular still? Have we hit peak RPO?
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  Speaker 1: And now defenses are starting to figure it out and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see a little bit less of them
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  Speaker 1: as a sort of going on this year. How big
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  Speaker 1: of how big is the RPO going to be an
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  Speaker 1: Ohio States offense this ball, I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to say it'll be roughly the same. The RPO's
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  Speaker 2: been a I wouldn't call it a huge part of
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  Speaker 2: Ohio States offense over the past couple of years, but
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  Speaker 2: it's been a very It's been very much a part
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  Speaker 2: of the offense, and I think it'll continue to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of the offense. One unique type of RPO
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  Speaker 2: that you might see this year that it might look
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  Speaker 2: a little clunky is Arthur Smith actually runs RPOs under
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  Speaker 2: center instead of out a shotgun sometimes, which is pretty
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  Speaker 2: unique because RPOs they can also be Look the two
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  Speaker 2: examples I showed today were post snap reads. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterbacks reading what a guy does and then deciding
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  Speaker 2: to run or pass. But you can also run pre
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  Speaker 2: snap RPO reads, and oftentimes that means you're reading the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Like if the corner is playing twelve yards off a
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  Speaker 2: receiver and the receivers just running a six yard hitch route.
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  Speaker 2: You see that when the ball is snapped that the
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  Speaker 2: corner is getting them. That much space and you can
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  Speaker 2: throw the ball real quick. But even that's usually done
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  Speaker 2: from shotgun. Arthur Smith will do things like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pre snap RPO reach from under center, So it might
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  Speaker 2: look a little odd, but that's something to look out
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  Speaker 2: for this year.
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