True enough, but it helps more on an RPO than on say a hand off out of I formation or a pass out of scat protection(everyone goes out for a pass except for the 5 o linemen.) The reason is a RPO looks exactly the same as a zone read to the defense. So them having to account for the QB keep puts a lot of pressure on them. Also like I said, there is the triple option RPO play where a QB can pass to the hot read, hand off, or keep it himself. It’s hilarious how NFL and college offensive coordinators talk about having a mobile QB being beneficial for the RPO, but this board thinks they are smarter and know better just because a few idiots confuse RPO and zone read.

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Posted by CottonWasKing

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Posted on 8/23/22 at 11:33 pm to sabes que

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It’s hilarious how NFL and college offensive coordinators talk about having a mobile QB being beneficial for the RPO, but this board thinks they are smarter and know better just because a few idiots confuse RPO and zone read.

To be fair there were quite a few NFL and College coordinators very recently who didn’t understand the RPO either.

I’ve never denied the fact that a running QB is beneficial to the RPO. Like we’ve both said it’s beneficial in every single play an offense will run.

I just get in a tizzy when people, especially talking heads who SHOULD know what they’re talking about, claim that a QB MUST be able to run to run an RPO effectively. When in fact the RPO is to slow quarterbacks what the veer was to skinny linemen.

Yes the veer is more effectively ran if you can run it behind 5* linemen because everything is more effective if run behind 5* linemen.

The point is it was designed as a countermeasure to a deficient personnel grouping just like the RPO.

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