I'd like to think that our players are plenty smart enough to be taught the option offense just as well as another player can be taught another offense.
It isn't exactly rocket science they are learning here.
The thing with the 3O is if someone blows their assignment by diving at ankles or some other ridiculous attempt at blocking, it is easy to blow up our plays. (Hell, any offense is easy to stop when that happens. ).
But in your example, if you put so much emphasis on taking away the dive, what are you going to do with the other two options? What about just a two step drop and a simple dump pass over your backs that are focusing on the dive? We used to rack up hundreds of yards rushing on teams who had that very same thought as you.
Now, if we could actually get back to engaging the defender and actually impeding his progression, like we used to in the years prior, we'll be like that well oiled machine we used to be.
I haven't had a chance to see all the plays this year, but with the few drives I have seen, it's the same bad technique we showed last year.