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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 3507861, member: 860"]
Maybe this was a designed run all the way, but that runs counter to the whole offensive scheme that we are supposedly running.

I obviously don't know our playbook, but the whole premise of the veer and shoot offense is that on most plays the QB has the option of giving to the RB inside, pulling it and running it himself to the outside, or pulling it then setting his feet and throwing it.  The pre-snap read tells him whether he's going to run or throw, and it's based on numbers in the box.  If the numbers dictate run, then the defensive end man on the LOS dictates RB inside or QB outside run.  If the numbers dictate pass, then the coverage and position of the DB dictate the patterns to be run.

Looking at the pre-snap setup, Tommy sees that he's got 6 lined up in the box with a CB showing blitz (making 7), and a Safety with a 9 yard cushion over his slot man.  This should have been a passing down.  Ideally underneath to the slot receiver.

The whole point of "go fast" is only partly to run a lot of plays.  It's also to force the D to commit to an alignment with enough time on the play clock to make the right presnap read.  I'm not sure we made the right read here, or several of the other blown up running plays.  That said, there are some things about our offense today that look very different from what we were running 3 years ago, so I'm not sure all of the RPO elements are installed at this point.  
Either way, even with great execution, running into that defensive alignment was high risk, low reward.
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