the three trendiest letters in college football right now, RPO, but a unique layer to the RPO was literally stumbled upon at Utah. Yeah, it was a misdessignment by a wide receiver. Hard to believe it's been 16 years since Utah. Actually, 18 years before bowling green, when the group of coaches got together, really no one was doing it back then. But before we go to RPO, I just want to quick conversation about spread. Spreads near and dear to me, and I keep hearing different versions, different definitions. This is what the spread offense is. Spread offense is all about equating numbers in the run game. In the eye formation at times, you would run the ball into unblocked defenders. You have a tail bit like that. You don't want guys getting hit. You want a spread to feel, create a numbers advantage on offense. And I'm going to give you a little simple sign. You know, spread out here. Come on my left, red. Okay, why not a little bit, Rob? Okay, imagine and visualize you have four wide receivers. Okay, you have split a spread set. Okay, with four wide receivers, normally speaking, defenders will take five defenders and cover you four. That leaves four delimony left and two linebackers. Six guys left on offense. The receivers are gone. I have my five linemen on the quarterback, register my tailback. Simple numbers are, if you have five blockers, six defenders, I turn around hand to ball off the tailback. He's going to get hit in the back field. You can't do that. So how do you do that? You eliminate one defender to equate numbers. So you're going to be the defensive end for me. Okay, this is spread offense 101. Okay, so I'm going to, we have five block and five. Five linemen, block and the three down linemen, two backers, I'm going to read you. Like I said, this is spread 101 back in 2000. Set and go, I read you. If you go to the back, I pull it. That's a double option. That's a run, run. Okay, now let's go back to Utah. Okay, from the other side. At Utah, this is the mistake or misdessignment by the H back that we kind of fell into. So Regis, you're going to be my defensive end. Regis, my tailback. You're going to block the outside line back, which is Matt Liner. Okay, once again, here we go. Set and go, you give me a pull read. You're blocking the outside linebacker. I run, that's a run, run option, double option. Okay, now this is, he's got a bad signal. He ran a bubble instead of blocking the man. Alex, this is my quarterback. Here we go. Set and go. I read you, I get a pull. I think you're going to block the outside linebacker. I start to run. Alex Smith being the very intelligent player that he is. Flips it out there and he takes off running. I'm standing in the back, back, turns like, what was that play? God, winning him, my decordinator comes running at me with a script. So I've never seen that play. For what is that? And I said, I look at Dan Moellist. I've never seen that other. Do it again. That was the evolution of the spread offense. So let's go back. You'd be the tight end for me, Brady. That's tough. Let's go once again, spread offense 101. Single option. That's where you have a very good tailback. You don't always have the quarterback with a chance to pull. You're going to block the defensive end. Set and go. It's a single option. I hand a ball off. Single option. The quarterback, there's zero read. Next one. You're the tight end coming across. You'll influence him. Block the walk out. This is double option. The quarterback has two choices. Give or pull. Set and go. Well, give me a pull read. I get on the hip of the blocker. That's a one option, two option, run to run. Double option. And here's a triple option. You'll see a lot of teams doing this. This is the tight end. One skinny is going to come across. Now you're going to release into flat. You have to stay behind the line of scrimmage because the alignment are downfield. I'm going to fake to you here. I'm going to read you. Set and go. I'm reading you. I get a pull read. I start the run. That's one option. Second option is to run. Third option is to flip the ball to the tight end into flat. That's a triple option. Here's the key. Everybody on the offense is blocking run. Run, pause, pass option. It's a run play. Five guys blocking, tail backs, expect into ball, quarterbacks, eliminated defender. The objective of the spread offense is what? Equate numbers in the run game. Don't get guys like that hit with unblocked defenders. And then what happened, the evolution of the game, when you're having a quarterback, quarterbacks like this that you don't want to run too much, they've added the throw to it. So it's not exactly a fun thing. If you had these two guys as your QBs, how much RPO am I? This is a maybe. That's a no chance. No, you know what? I know all season long you know what I'm going to be. I'm going to be the walk out line. Just like this. This is all I'm going to do. Go into the shadows. It's fine. I also recruited very well. When I got something like this, forget the RPO. I'm in the middle. Here's smart man. Here's to see how much RPO is running. Justin Fields. Big new kickoff. August 31st, sponsored by Wendy's on Fox