Haven't watched Denver either, but going off of what Rors said last week, I'm not sure they're doing anything that creative.Wellington said:
More often than not they just try to contain and make sure a safety scrapes down to pick someone up. There's so much to it, up until a couple of years ago everyone was running the QB to the backside, now they also block everyone but the front side end and read/option off of him. Ryan has a few pages in his "Coaching the 46 Defense" book just on option defense.
At the college level you sometimes see WRs that are ineligible, but defenders still cover them even though they can't catch. It's stuff like this that can really mess with teams, but I doubt the Broncos have anything like this in their plans.
When Tebow and Hernandez were at Florida, they wrecked havoc with one specific triple option play. They'd motion Hernandez from the back to the front, and leave the front side DE unblocked. Tebow would either keep, inside shovel/pitch to Hernandez, or pitch to the back. All year long they killed teams with this play, it was money.
SEC champ game rolls around and they try it. Saban basically told the DE that was over Hernandez to motion with him. Absolutely destroyed the play, they didn't run it again the entire game. You'd think Florida would have a counter, but if they did they certainly didn't show it in that game.
