Understand Why RPO's Work and How To Execute Them!
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Today we're talking RPO why and when to use them. I'll show you a couple of different schemes. Welcome to elite athletes TV. I'm Mike Pawlawski, former 11 year pro quarterback and quarterbacks coach here at https://www.eliteathletestv.com. Today I want to talk about RPO concepts. I'm going to show you some college footage of the RPO's being executed, and we're gonna talk about when, and why to use them. Now, a lot of guys have kind of gotten on the RPO bandwagon, and it was really big for a while. They thought that there was some kind of cure all for your offense. It's not. Remember RPO's are a way to give your quarterback an easy read, But it's really a way to even the numbers in the run game. If you could run the ball for four yards every single time, you would do it right? That's how you would move the ball down the field. But because teams will put extra people in the box you need to have a way to even out those numbers. And so RPO's give you the opportunity to force defenses to cover the run and pass.
Understand this. It takes a lot of work in practice, because the mesh in an RPO has to be on the running back. It can't be on the quarterback because he's reading the conflict defender downfield. So he's gotta stick that ball out there and the back has to create the mesh. But if you work enough to get your quarterback comfortable it's a super simple read. It's a yes, no read as a quarterback, I always love that. It's either, yes, I pull it and throw or No, I hand that ball off. And that's it.
If your team can't get it done up front, if you're just being out manned by the defensive line, then RPOs aren't going to solve that. But if you're pretty even across the board, if you're if you're running the ball decently and they start to stack the box on you RPOs give you a solution to either get them out of the box, or to create leverage and space. And to get that positive yardage instead of running the ball by replacing that defender who is in the box with the ball. So I'm gonna talk about a couple different looks. Today we're gonna look at it from inside zone. And we're gonna look at it off the power as well. If you have a run in your playbook, you should have an RPO from it as well. If teams start to stack the box, if you're killing with outside zone, you should have an RPO off the outside zone. If you're killing with the inside zone, you should have an RPO for power. Same thing for counter.


That's RPO 101 off to the inside zone and power. It's really effective if you do don't know a lot about RPO you should learn about it. It can be really good especially in the lower levels, the high school game RPOs can be really effective and it's a great way of getting young quarterbacks comfortable in a system giving them easy reads to go with giving them easy balls to complete and taking advantage of a numbers game on offense. We'll be talking about more RPOs I'll show you a lot more. Got a bunch of film to bring out this year. When we talk about play design. We'll be talking about coverages quarterback, play, all that stuff coming up. I appreciate you watching.