Football's Read Option as old as the hills

[Davii]

Go back to near the beginning of football, when a college coach named Glenn "Pop" Warner drew up the single-wing formation for, among others, a promising, future Olympic gold medal athlete named Jim Thorpe.
The idea behind the single wing was not only to create deception in the backfield, but to double-team block the defensive end and defensive tackle so the tailback — who is what we otherwise call a quarterback — could exploit the gap between them.
Go back to 1982, when Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs essentially removed the fullback from his offense, leaving John Riggins as his lone running back and starting a backfield formation that remains common today.


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[PAINTERDAVE]

That history of schemes in the NFL was very interesting...

It will be quite telling, today, how effective our offense is against the Chiefs.
I expect to see some new wrinkles to our scheme...
but I am anxious to see how the Chiefs do defending it.

Many have said.. as soon as there is film on Tim...
any further chance of his success is over.

Well.. we are about to find out. :confused:

[rcsodak]

Painter sighting!

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[T.K.O.]

hoping the chefs worked all week on it and we throw something completely different at them....then switch back to the option all sneaky like:beer::salute: