The Vince Young Option...Lendale White and Brandon Jones

TitanJeff · May 22, 2006

Thanks for clearing that up, Hooky.

Hawk · May 23, 2006

Hooky Hornstein said:

I've seen the phrase "option" misused by the media a lot these days. I've heard and read a lot of people mistakenly referring to the Texas offense as an option offense. Even the writer of the linked article seems a little muddled. What he described as an "option read" was actually the "zone read."

Sure VY made a decision on the play, which I guess some could argue is, semantically, an option. But it’s not an option, per se, as in option football where the QB heads to the corner with the ball and decides to keep it or pitch it to his trailing HB depending on what the DE and CB bite.

The option play was a gimmick in the Texas offense that was used sparingly. The zone read, which is not actually an option play, was Texas’ bread and butter.

My guess is that Norm Chow might put in something more along the lines of the zone read than an actual option play. My guess is that sportswriters are too simple to grasp the subtle distinctions and have gotten it wrong.

So my advice is: don’t actually believe the Titans are installing the option until you hear Norm Chow or Jeff Fisher specifically use the word.
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Good post. It would not be right to say Vince never ran the option (i.e. the infamous pitch to Selvin Young for a TD with Vince's knee already down in the Rose Bowl), but it was not a large part of the Texas offense. If they really want to install a package for Vince, they need to consider doing some shotgun, no-huddle offense. Vince was a master of that at Texas, and he really seemed to get on a roll when Texas went no-huddle last year.

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