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The building blocks for the read-option are right out in the open for everyone to see in the first week of training camp. From the shotgun formation with an offset running back, quarterbacks Jay Cutler, Josh McCown and Matt Blanchard have used mesh-point action that would be the starting point for a read-option play. Maybe it's a sign of things to come in the build-a-Bears offense that Marc Trestman still is supplementing.
Reported by the Chicago Tribune
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As Tribune staffer Brad Biggs suggested, there is no reason the Bears shouldn't toy with the mechanisms in the offense. They had plenty of trouble stopping the read option themselves last season. The question has to be whether Trestman believes Cutler, who has the seventh-most rushing yards for a quarterback since 2006, can execute the scheme? "Jay has the skill set to do just about everything, anything," Trestman said in acknowledging the Bears are using elements of the read option in practice but said they have not had Cutler study the scheme yet. Trestman had parts of it in his offense in the CFL last season. But it was more a wrinkle of the offense than a staple of it. It will be worth watching to see if the Bears implement it as more than just a wrinkle.
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