re: Jalen Hurts 1st half vs 2nd half stats so far this season are worth taking a look at

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They lucked into a cheap, serviceable QB. What "model" ?

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They are running a base three read, heavy RPO scheme. They’re giving Hurts a run/pass read and then a single downfield read with a check down . Lots of clear out and decoy routes that are never getting the ball. And they’re supplementing that with called QB run and his scrambling ability. Almost everything they do is designed to generate offense without hurts having to actually read coverages and go through multiple passing reads.

These don’t work consistently in the NFL because coordinators are too good, defenses are too fast and eventually they figure out which players on a given play actually have any chance of getting the ball and eat it up. Every year one or two teams with enough talent to spam them get away with it for a while but it never leads to meaningful success. The closest anyone ever got was the 2012 49ers, largely because it was more new and unique at the time.