It's almost hilarious that you mention tape watching as a fallback for d-coordinators understanding an offense, but if you really knew what actually happens you'd know that tape watching only allows you to establish playcalling patterns at best and at least it can give you nothing especially when trying to apply an offense ran by a college team vs it's application with vastly different personnel on the pro level. If you watched the Redskins game you would've seen that it wasn't exhaustion that slowed the Eagles down in the 2nd half. They finally started to diagnose Chip's offense in real time. Regardless of what analysts will tell you there's a finite number of formations and plays from different situations. That formation with two tackles at the numbers?? It's been done before. I saw it way back in high school. It's just a variation on the swinging gate.
I only mentioned tape because you did first I was replying to your quote. I actually think its a clitche when hear espn commentators say this and that won't work because nfl coordinators will watch the tap. Imo fuk their tape. Tape doesn't change the numbers advantages how many players you have to dedidicate to the box to be sound vs and offense.
I never said or thought Exhaustion slowed the Eagles down.
And about formations being diagnosed in real time that could be said about any offense. I didn't expect them to score 50 on them
Next, you do realize there's almost always 2 open d-linemen on the read option by design, right? The idea of penetration isn't about talent it's about aggression. It's funny that you mentioned Matthews because the Niners rushed for less than 100 yards against GB so that philosophy takes away the advantage of running the read option. You say it's easier for the offense, but the defense's aggression dictates that move and it resulted in a shytty rushing day for the team. The times that they truly did give the option to Kaep it got shut down.
They had shytty game running because A) Green back was focusing on the run from scheme and numbers perspective B) Niners didn't actually run READ option plays like they did last year in the playoffs. They were running pre determined runs leaving end man on the line unblocked. The play I actually saw them read(or at least read correctly) was toward the end with gore where he ran for like 15 yrds to help seal their last td if I'm not mistaken.
Also I would argue or at least make the case that Green Bays aggressive style for defending the run is what helped enable Kaep devastating passing game.
Lastly, bringing up a man that's stuck to the predictable ass tampa 2 and got torched by every offense, not just read option, over the last few years as a college DC is the last person you should use as an example of NFL futility. The NFL defenses have an advantage over college d-coordinators in that there's less of a difference in talent. There's no real athletic holes player wise in the NFL defenses. There's no such thing as Louisiana Monroe to keep your team fresh. There's not a roster of 115 players to rotate throughout practice. It's not Marcus Mariota against some random walk on. The LBs are just as fast as the QBs from 0-20 yards and so are the d-lineman. The NFL d-coordinators don't have to worry about their players going to class. It is their profession. Give the men a year and they'll be treated Chip's offense just like everyone else's. No blowouts. No 70 point games. Just a lot of plays and beat up players.