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[QUOTE="fanfanclubclub, post: 23639, member: 787"]
"Pro-style" simply refers to 3&5 drop step timing routes, like a bang 8.

When football analysts refer to 3&5 drop step timing routes as "pro-style passing," they are not suggesting that drop step timing routes are the [I]only[/I] acceptable NFL offense.  Instead, the "pro-style" label is simply a reference to the fact that the NFL uses 3&5 drop step timing routes WAY more than college.  This was particularly true ~25 years ago when almost the entire NFL used an Air Coryell passing attack.

But even today, with an increased usage of shotgun, West Coast, and Ebhardt-Perkins, it is still true that NFL teams use drop step timing routes way more than college, high school, or any other football league: so it makes sense to refer to drop step timing routes as "pro style."  Every NFL QB [I]must[/I] learn "pro style" 3&5 drop step timing routes, but not every NFL QB has to know the spread option.  Teaching a college QB "pro style" footwork is often the hardest part of breaking a college QB into the NFL.

Just because NFL teams are heavily using the shotgun and incorporating aspects of the spread offense, does not mean that the "benefits of using a pro style offense" have somehow disappeared.
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