NFL question: the Option?

[xboxist]

It hit me today that the NFL doesn't run the Option. At least I don't recall ever seeing it in recent years. After seeing several college teams run it to almost perfection... I am wondering why the pros don't utilize it more. Can the college teams get away with it because in proportion to the NFL, college defenses are much worse and not as skillful as the pros? Or is it that the defenses are much bigger and faster in the NFL, and the quarterbacks would often get demolished? And you know, we couldn't have that because the owner would be out of like $20 million?

Whatever reason... I can't help but ponder how good an Option-NFL team could be if they really perfected it.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: xboxist
It hit me today that the NFL doesn't run the Option. At least I don't recall ever seeing it in recent years. After seeing several college teams run it to almost perfection... I am wondering why the pros don't utilize it more. Can the college teams get away with it because in proportion to the NFL, college defenses are much worse and not as skillful as the pros? Or is it that the defenses are much bigger and faster in the NFL, and the quarterbacks would often get demolished? And you know, we couldn't have that because the owner would be out of like $20 million?

Whatever reason... I can't help but ponder how good an Option-NFL team could be if they really perfected it.

All of the above. The option opens up the quarterback to severe hits and injury. Why would you put an important position in such a dangerous situation?

 

[tm37]

The problem with the option is that the QB gets creamed on EVERY PLAY.

The defences in the NFL hit much harder than thoose in college so the likely hood of a option QB getting through an entire season is very unlikely.

Also the option can be defended with a fast defence

NFL is much faster than college.

 

[Reliant]

Also not a lot of the NFL QB's can run like the boys in college.

 

[PlatinumGold]

how many of the very BEST college teams run the option??

i seem to remember MOST of the really really good college teams running a pro style offense.

eg. usc this year, did they run an option?

 

[BD231]

Plays that give a defense an obvious sense of direction in the NFL are rare, and running sideline to sideline is obviously a perfect example.

College football fields are wider, and college players are slower.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: BD231
Plays that give a defense an obvious sense of direction in the NFL are rare, and running sideline to sideline is obviously a perfect example.

College football fields are wider, and college players are slower.

HUH? :Q

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BD231
Plays that give a defense an obvious sense of direction in the NFL are rare, and running sideline to sideline is obviously a perfect example.

College football fields are wider, and college players are slower.

it's the same field, college just puts the hashmarks out farther apart than the nfl.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: BD231
Plays that give a defense an obvious sense of direction in the NFL are rare, and running sideline to sideline is obviously a perfect example.

College football fields are wider, and college players are slower.

it's the same field, college just puts the hashmarks out farther apart than the nfl.

No, I've seen them roll out extra turf at Seahawk Stadium when college teams are playing.

 

[MikeMike]

ummmm......

football fields are 40 yards wide. middleschool and up to the pros.

MIKE

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
ummmm......

football fields are 40 yards wide. middleschool and up to the pros.

MIKE

agreed

i'm watching the carolina dallas game and you can see the hashmarks from the college games, but there is nothing vague about the sidelines to indicate a possible difference for college games.

all football fields, unless it's canadian football league, are the same size.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
ummmm......

football fields are 40 yards wide. middleschool and up to the pros.

MIKE

agreed

i'm watching the carolina dallas game and you can see the hashmarks from the college games, but there is nothing vague about the sidelines to indicate a possible difference for college games.

all football fields, unless it's canadian football league, are the same size.

I know that.

This is what this ---> is for in my post.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
how many of the very BEST college teams run the option??

i seem to remember MOST of the really really good college teams running a pro style offense.

eg. usc this year, did they run an option?

every college team with a mobile quarterback runs the option.

 

[ViperXX]

Actually Dallas ran the option this year and they scored a TD.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: ViperXX
Actually Dallas ran the option this year and they scored a TD.

Any team with a running QB CAN run the option, but not for long. As has been stated before, your running QB will find it hard to run on crutches.

 

[ViperXX]

True.

But you do see it run from time to time in the NFL.

Quincy Carter has only run it once this year.

 

[95SS]

In the NFL, the option could be used like a fake FG or punt, a trick play. Something to surprise the defense with when least expected. But how many QB's could actually run it, and how many RB's know how to run it. It takes disicpline to stay in the right place to take a pitch that might not come.

 

[RedPickle]

hmm... Vick with the option... scary...

 

[GroundZero]

Originally posted by: Reliant
Also not a lot of the NFL QB's can run like the boys in college.

i think that it is not that they can't, but rather the fact that they won't.
qb's are total pussies these days...
in the grasp? give me a break! the name of the game is to kill the qb!
whack him crack him jack him kick him smash him wrack him shoot him spear him clothesline him whatever it takes, but in the nfl they are treated like little princesses.
the slide rule, the in-the-grasp rule blow
if you are making that kind of money you should be ready to be hit by a car!
the old timers that played both sides are rolling in their graves becaus of the pussy rules!

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: RedPickle
hmm... Vick with the option... scary...

Scary if you're a Falcons fan.

 

[Shlong]

I remember Vick ran a few option plays with the Falcons, usually Vick kept the ball instead of pitching & would gain good yardage.

 

[ViperXX]

the old timers that played both sides are rolling in their graves becaus of the pussy rules!

I couldn't agree more. The NFL is being pussified with these damn rules.