Football Mike Tomlin: Read-Option is "Flavor of the Day"

tk13 · 03-19-2013, 08:35 PM

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PHOENIX -- The read-option may be the NFL's in vogue offensive concept, but to the league's defensive-minded coaches it's just the latest in a long line of puzzles to solve.

"I think it's the flavor of the day," Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings. "We will see if it's the flavor of the year. We'll see if guys are committed to getting their guys hit."

The success last year of young, athletic quarterbacks such as the Washington Redskins' Robert Griffin III, Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson and San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick, who led the 49ers to the Super Bowl running their version of the read-option, is thought to portend a new offensive trend toward dynamic offenses that force defenses to account for more than they're used to seeing.

But as Tomlin's comment hints, the read-option carries risk and exacts from the quarterback a physical price that the small sample size doesn't yet prove teams are willing to pay.

So while the read-option may be the hot concept of the NFL moment, opposing defenses view it instead as something to be stamped out.

"We look forward to stopping it," Tomlin said. "We look forward to eliminating it."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/90...nfl-flavor-day

Nightfyre · 03-19-2013, 08:36 PM

Tomlin's plan for stopping the read-option is simple. Injure the QBs.

DJ's left nut · 03-20-2013, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Nightfyre

Tomlin's plan for stopping the read-option is simple. Injure the QBs.

Duh.

There's no way for a defense, which is by it's very nature reactive, to deal with a true 11 on 11 situation; for the defense to have any chance at all, one of those guys has to be taken out of 'coverage'. When the QB can also run, we see the results; trying to put a spy on him puts everyone else at a decided disadvantage.

There truly is only one solution to the numbers game - raw deterrence. Sure - run your QB. We're going to !@#$ him up.

Tomlinson's absolutely right.

Once again - there have been plenty of great young running QBs. There are very few great old running QBs.

Deberg_1990 · 03-19-2013, 08:37 PM

Hes right about this:

"We'll see if guys are committed to getting their guys hit"

Molitoth · 03-19-2013, 08:40 PM

Tomlin is right.

And since The Chiefs are still stuck in 80's style football, perhaps the read-option will have come full circle by the time the chiefs move to it.

**Easy 6** · 03-19-2013, 09:19 PM

Count me as another brick in the Tomlin is spot on wall... throw your option QB out there to the wolves, and we'll eat eat him, thats an AWESOME football statement and probably exactly how teams will attack it in the future... **** you Goodell, you cant change everything right away.

The read option will mostly die out just like the wildcat did, a gimmick is a gimmick, unless you have some custom made, physical find like Kaepernick able to execute it consistently without getting killed... its worthless.

Ultimately, dropback passers rule, if you cant do that... forget it.

Fritz88 · 03-19-2013, 09:04 PM

Doesn't his QB run a lot and gets hit a lot?

**LoneWolf** · 03-19-2013, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Fritz88

Doesn't his QB run a lot and gets hit a lot?

He gets hit a lot because he will stand in the pocket and wait forever for a receiver to get open, but he is far from a running QB.

OrtonsPiercedTaint · 03-19-2013, 09:16 PM

Don't let Thomlin fool you. When the other boys in kindergaten put their dicks in the guppie tank, he did too.

Brock · 03-19-2013, 09:18 PM

Tomlin should probably worry about his own mess.

**DeezNutz** · 03-19-2013, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

Tomlin should probably worry about his own mess.

Haley is on staff, so he's cool.

**Shogun** · 03-19-2013, 09:19 PM

Think Tomlin is one of the best coaches in the nfl, ill trust his judgement.

Sweet Daddy Hate · 03-19-2013, 11:08 PM

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Think Tomlin is one of the best coaches in the nfl, ill trust his judgement.

There is NO other coach in the NFL I admire more. Tomlin is the goddamned Richard Roundtree of professional football.
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Sweet Daddy Hate · 03-19-2013, 11:06 PM

Sweet Jesus I think I love this man.
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Hootie · 03-19-2013, 11:15 PM

we'll see

the Redskins version of the read-option is a flavor of the month, I do agree

but the way the Seahawks and 49ers simply work it in is here to stay

Russell Wilson is literally the perfect QB.

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