mgoblog - communist football en 3 Zone Shotgun Option Play Diagrams, and Bama blowing one up <p>Not a lot of personal input into this diary, but with Brian&#39;s front Picture Pages asking who the option read was there has been some confusion of which play is what. It&#39;s impossible to know what the play call is on any given down, and Bama did blow up just about everything, but I thought I&#39;d post some diagrams showing what various teams do.&nbsp;Please chime in as well with different names for plays, as different coaches call the same play by different names.</p> <p>All kinds of information (these pictures)&nbsp;can be found here: <a href=""></a></p> <p>Play 1: Zone Read (Read Option)</p> <p><img alt="zr" src="" /></p> <p>The offensive line zone blocks and leaves one defensive end (circled) unblocked. The QB then looks to see what this end does. The end picks one player and the QB&#39;s job is to make sure the other player has the ball.</p> <p>There are variations on this (bubble screens etc) that are very nuanced and again, Chris Brown goes over them here <a href=""></a></p> <p>Play 2: DT Read Option (Midline Option)</p> <p><img alt="3tech" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-746" height="369" src="" title="3tech" width="553" /></p> <p>Very similar play, but here a DT is left unblocked. Lots of teams do this against stud DTs (Oregon optioned off Glenn Dorsey some)</p> <p>Play 3 - Inverted Veer<img alt="invert" src="" /></p> <p>The big differences here are that you now have a pulling guard and you leave someone unblocked playside. <a href=""></a></p> <p>Michigan used this play to dismantle OSU last year as Brian pointed out here: <a href=""></a></p> <p>Typically your pulling guard and playside tackle would both serve as lead blockers on the 2nd level, but as noted elsewhere Borges and Hoke don&#39;t like leaving linemen unblocked. What worked against OSU was the LBs getting caught in the wash and Denard being awesome. I can&#39;t find an exact diagram of how we draw it up, but they still option off a DL, then get blocks elsewhere.</p> <p>So how did Bama blow this up completely? Do we need to worry about teams doing this in the future? By being way more talented and maybe. What Bama did was &quot;absorb&quot; blockers and control them. Hopkins can&#39;t block #1, who forces a give. Omameh and Schofield are stuck double teaming DTs and can&#39;t get to the next level. Barnum is beat to the hole. If this was a true read&nbsp;play (I dont&#39; know, and as mentioned, the coached don&#39;t like unblocked DLs) Hopkins should be on the 2nd level as well. <a href=""><img alt="option-2" border="0" height="361" src="" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="option-2" width="564" /></a></p> <p>Do we need to worry about other teams doing this? Maybe, but I don&#39;t know who else will have the talent to. If a DL tries to pick off the lead blocker AND force a give, AND 2 DL force double teams so that our OL can&#39;t get to the 2nd level AND their LBs beat our pulling guard to the hole... then yes, we&#39;re in trouble. I don&#39;t think the talent disparity will be as big in future games. If it is, our option game will get blown up.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="more"></a> communist football football inverted veer read option spread option Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:24:57 +0000 JeepinBen 71698 at