BR sports Burrow “This (RPO) is what I’m used to running

The Advocate’s Brooks Kubena reported that “Mike Kuchar, co-founder of X&O Labs, a research company for football coaches, explained that quarterbacks making the decisions in RPO’s (run,pass, option offenses) is the hardest part of the transition into this new style of offense.

A transition which The Advocate writer noted bodes well for LSU’s Burrow, who was running RPO’s at the age of 13 and at OSU. “This is what I’m used to” Burrow said, adding “I can have a lot of input and have a lot of suggestions about where we’re going”. The report noted, expect LSU’s TE’s to be “used more” and “spread out” more, and it’s talented runningbacks ranked no.2 and no.8 “paired with a receiving corps that returns every starter... the Tigers are set up to make a smooth transition.”

The report explained, how a huge part of the RPO’s success is being able to run the ball so the offense can key on whomever the “seventh defender” is that’s moving in to stop the run, thus using that vacated space to complete a pass. I believe this all bodes extremely well for the offense and LSU’s success, since running the ball has never been an issue for the Tigers.