Stop calling RPOs cheese and learn to play defense

The consensus that RPOs are cheese is tired. They’re the one play type that requires pre-snap adjustments and actual good user play. The cheese in the game is having a secondary with 10 KOs and sitting back and letting the computer knock passes out. Don’t get me wrong, every player in my secondary as has 1-2 KOs like everyone else but the RPO hate is tired. If you haven’t figured it out yet, there’s like 10 videos on YouTube showing you how to stop the RPOs.

Hint: Man up the receiver who runs the bubble route.

Happy Sunday and cheers to only 4 months until NFL returns.

doncoyleone said:

The consensus that RPOs are cheese is tired. They’re the one play type that requires pre-snap adjustments and actual good user play. The cheese in the game is having a secondary with 10 KOs and sitting back and letting the computer knock passes out. Don’t get me wrong, every player in my secondary as has 1-2 KOs like everyone else but the RPO hate is tired. If you haven’t figured it out yet, there’s like 10 videos on YouTube showing you how to stop the RPOs.

Hint: Man up the receiver who runs the bubble route.

Happy Sunday and cheers to only 4 months until NFL returns.

Running RPO's isn't the problem.  RPO's are very viable plays, and certainly something that real NFL teams run.  The issue is players that just spam them over and over in a game.  I run Man coverage, so I have never had an issue with stopping RPO's, and in fact welcome my opponents to try them.  I have gotten multiple Pick 6's off of opponents RPO's this year.

“Cheese is the KO’s, I have 1-2 of them on every player“ lmao

the problem is not the rpo, it’s the way they’re coded, it is the fact of having angry runs, yac em up and vanguard that makes it extremely annoying. It takes absolutely zero skill to run them. I just don’t understand how people can have fun running rpo’s all game long, and enjoy it.