The quarterback position has always been defined by the mental difficulty it places on its inhabitants. Synonymous with the position are images of laser-minded technicians seeing into the matrix, making sense of a mass of bodies, and finding their targets on time. Raw processing after the snap is probably the hardest thing a (talented) quarterback has to do. Reading defender positioning and leverage, working through a progression, and simultaneously evading rushers requires incredible mental precision and reactivity.
What if there were another way, at least at the college level? Introducing the Action Offense. The “Action Offense” isn’t itself a specific system, but a broad set of offenses unified only in their use of heavy amounts of backfield action (play-action and RPOs) as the bedrock of their offense.