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Seahawks Breakdown: Plays that Pete Carroll should steal from the college level

Football is a bottom up structure. The inverted pyramid of pressure allows guys at the high school level to innovate, college guys to evolve, then the pro guys to steal, often laying claim to creation in grand, sweeping media profiles of their genius. That’s football.

You can’t move right now for a column/book/podcast/discussion on RPOs in the NFL, something that’s riddled the college game for close to a decade (the box kind has been in the NFL for equally as long; and Brett Favre was running what amounted to makeshift, on-the-fly RPOs back in his Green Bay days, he just neglected to tell anyone on his coaching staff).