So I watch a lot of football games, both high school and college and one thing that bothers me about our offense is that we fake the read option on every play. My question is (not bashing any specific coordinator) why do we do this?
1. Litton is no threat to run... He isn't very fast and about as elusive as my old Ford Tempo.
2. We don't want Litton running... Getting him killed by a linebacker on the rare occasion he does keep the ball is a pretty bad scenario.
3. It wastes time... I realize its tenths of a second, but isnt that tenths of a second our QB could use to look down field?
4. It's not effective... A linebacker hits the running back every single play knowing that Litton isn't going to run away from anyone and safeties arent charging the line of scrimmage to stop him following a very clearly fake handoff.
I understood when we did it with Cato, because he was a legit threat to pick up a first down on a bootleg/scramble, but I don't know why we havent adjusted to Litton's skill set and stopped the fake handoff nonsense.
1. Litton is no threat to run... He isn't very fast and about as elusive as my old Ford Tempo.
2. We don't want Litton running... Getting him killed by a linebacker on the rare occasion he does keep the ball is a pretty bad scenario.
3. It wastes time... I realize its tenths of a second, but isnt that tenths of a second our QB could use to look down field?
4. It's not effective... A linebacker hits the running back every single play knowing that Litton isn't going to run away from anyone and safeties arent charging the line of scrimmage to stop him following a very clearly fake handoff.
I understood when we did it with Cato, because he was a legit threat to pick up a first down on a bootleg/scramble, but I don't know why we havent adjusted to Litton's skill set and stopped the fake handoff nonsense.