answer:Your QB gets the ball and he runs an option play with a running back or a wide receiver in motion or whoever. The quarter back can read the defense and decide whether or not he wants to keep the ball, pitch it to his option, or even pass down the field to an open receiver. Before the play is hiked and the defense seen/read, the QB doesn’t necessarily know for sure what he will be doing, and since all 3 plays give the defense a totally different thing to defend, it’s extremely difficult to defend if you have a talented QB running it. If you line your defense up to defend against the pass, the QB will read that and keep the ball or pitch it. If you move up close to defend the run, the QB will read it and pass to a receiver behind you. The only really solid way to beat it is to put a spy on the QB who can keep up with him, and then man up on at least his option player. It really makes it about who the better athlete/player is. You see it much more in college (and it’s far less effective in the NFL) because the QB’s in college are often the best athletes on the field, vs the NFL where the QB is rarely the best athlete.