re: What do yall think about the option play?

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Seems we used it well to set up the rest of the offense

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That is kind of what the announcers were saying. Crowton had the UG defense spread out all over the field. This option, however sloppy it might have been, kept the defense guessing about what we were going to run.

jj did not run the option very much in high school. you can tell he is not comfortable with it....he does not attack the outman and takes a deep angle.

in order to be effective you have to run at the outman and make him decide. you should be progressing up the field even before the pitch. if he bites, you pitch and give your back some room to work with down the sideline. shep should be running the option.

IF JJ would run the option right it would work. You can't run the option wide or should I say deep in the backfield and expect it to gain you many yards if he would have faked the pitch to scott he could have made that first down .

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I think it should be Shep and KW/ Scott.

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I prefer KW. He seems to have a skill set that fits the option better than Scott. I like Chuck in a more North/South game. Maybe they could let Shep run the triple option from the I with Scott at FB and Williams at TB. Crowton could set up some very effective playaction throws for Shep off of it. I think he did it with RP a couple times in 2007.

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On another note, I was happy to see Shep get to run some zone read (an option that JJ is actually decent with), he was good on his ballhandling.

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Yep, that zone read with Shep and Trindon is deadly. Shep fooled me good one time. He stuck the ball really deep in TH's gut, and Trindon sold the fake very well.

JJ is pretty good with a simple zone read as opposed to the traditional option. He has decent mobility, but it isn't like he is a RB in QB's body. He's not Eric Crouch; he's a throwing QB first and foremost. I like how we ran a lead play off of it (I think Scott led JJ through the line.) Having the ability to have both the RB or Shep run inside or outside will give defenses fits. Maybe Calhoun, Ford, or Seastrunk *fingers crossed*, can fill the RB role in it next year.

I think you are focusing on the few that don't work rather than the many that gain 4 or 5 yards.

It also spreads the defense out. They can't bunch up in the box, if the threat of the option is there.

It has a lot of impact on top of the yards gained.
It also doesn't look explosive, because JJ is very conservative with it. There have been no major mistakes in the option game, which is JJ's general MO.