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Originally Posted by O.city
You son of a bitch, how are you?
Anyway, when you say "cutback" rules do you mean cutblock?
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I sent out the Sorter signal; he saw I started a thread and thought "Holy crap, I'll bet this is AWESOME..."
Yeah, I presumed he meant the cut-block rules. Though in some ways it seems like those rules should actually make it easier to run an outside zone given that DBs cant submarine those pulling guards anymore.
I hadn't considered the RPO element of it and yeah, that makes a ton of sense. You want your lineman going slow/sideways in an RPO so you don't end up with an ineligible man downfield penalty if the QB elects to pull the ball.
I wonder if that's not the most obvious explanation. Andy didn't use to favor the OZ like he does but that was before the rise of the RPO - so it seems pretty likely that the run design is more likely to follow the pass design than anything. And since you can't really go out there and run two different styles (because again - reps and time are limited), he's just elected to steer into the skid and find a way to get better at OZ runs rather than feature a gap system and try to maul his way between the tackles.
Still seems like an opportunity missed (especially since I'm not a fan of the RPOs at this point either)...