Zone Read Switch

I was at the Nebraska Clinic last weekend and one of the speakers was a guy from the Dallas area. They run a play he calls "zone away". The Oline zones away from the direction the RB is going. He said they pre-determine the Q will keep the ball so it is a good way to make sure your Q gets carries with blockers in front when defenses take away your Q by forcing you to run zone all night on all zone read plays. He said they would run it when they faced teams that either read the movement of the Oline and really flow to the zone or when teams are flowing fast to the RB when he and the Q mesh for a zone read look. In his cut-ups the Q almost always hit the line running straight North and South. It looked like most of the defense went with the Oline and the backside DE and OLB went with the RB and the middle of the defense parted like the Red Sea. I have heard of what you are talking about where the Q reads backwards from the normal zone read. My first thought is that there would be more missed reads since the Q is programed to react on the read's movement based on repetition in practice. I think through repetition the Q gets comfortable with the movements of the DE and his decision to keep or give becomes 2nd nature. I would think if you now ask him to read the DE for the same movements but those movements now cause the Q to make the opposite decision it would be tough.