A few nights ago, I was listening to the Doug Gottlieb Show on FOX Sports Radio, and he said something extremely unpopular among Oklahoma State fans.
He was talking about spread, air raid quarterbacks, like current Cowboys slinger Mason Rudolph is, and made his case that “They never work” in the NFL. Among many others in his argument, one flaw in particular stuck out.
Mason Rudolph is not your typical air raid quarterback.
Gottlieb argued that such throwers don’t make reads of the defense pre-snap or post-snap. They do a hard count, break their posture and look at the coaches on the sideline, who tell them which receiver to throw to based on what they see in the defense’s alignment.