[Husker] Telegraphing plays

[Mike Jaixen]

Personally, I think there is something to Callahan
telegraphing his play calls.  Some people have
identified a few trends with Callahan's play calls
with specific personnel grouping, formations, and
shifts.

Last week, the way the game developed forced Callahan
out of one of his most extreme cases of telegraphing
plays, and that is the use of freshmen running backs. 
Under Callahan, when freshmen I-backs are in the game,
they get the ball 90% of the time.  This happened with
Brandon Jackson, this happened with Marlon Lucky and
Cody Glenn, and it happens with Quentin Castille and
Roy Helu.  That's why the freshmen backs were MIA
against Wake Forest and USC.  In the second half
against Ball State, Callahan was forced to use Helu
and Castille in the passing game because Lucky needed
a breather and Glenn was in street clothes.

Helu did a pretty good job of blitz pickup last
weekend, which might mean that Callahan can trust him
in the passing game as a blocker and outlet receiver,
thus meaning that his presence in the game is not
telegraphing play calls.

--- jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:

> I suppose you could read it that way, but you could
> also read it with the 
> idea that they're on the same page. 
> 
> Every defense has a way they're going to play,
> something they're going to 
> take away, something they're going to give you. If
> the quarterback knows 
> what the game plan is, what you're going to try to
> do as an offense, then 
> why wouldn't he know the play the coach wants to
> run. Seems to me this is 
> more like planning and communication doing well, not
> that Callahan is 
> predictable. 
> 
> Is Callahan predictable? Well.... we used to have
> someone on the list that 
> would do a play chart, but they're long gone, so
> we're making the 
> assumption (or not) that he's predictable. 
> 
> I would guess that coaches mostly know what the
> other team is going to do 
> most of the time, so it isn't so much a matter of
> being completely 
> unpredictable, but a combination of catching a
> defense off-guard at the 
> same time being successful in execution the base
> plays you want to run. 
> 
> Jon Johnston
> http://www.cornnation.com
> 
> husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 09/26/2007 10:42:29
> PM:
> 
> > OWH article: 
>
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1200&u_sid=10142826
> > 
> >   The following from the above article, spoken
> about Sam Keller:
> > 
> >   "It's amazing," Callahan said. "There's been
> several times where 
> > I'll yell a personnel grouping, then I'll begin
> the formation and 
> > then he'll say, 'I got it. I got it. I got it.'
> He's got the play."
> > 
> > 
> >   Someone had made a remark earlier about Callahan
> telegraphing 
> > plays merely by the formations and personnel.
> Doesn't the above 
> > statement pretty much confirm that when he sets a
> specific personnel
> > group and formation that a predictable play will
> follow? That has to
> > be of enormous benefit to a defense knowing what
> play is coming. I 
> > think it would constitute an unfair advantage,
> which is why the NFL 
> > fined Bill Belechek $250,000 for trying to steal
> this type of 
> > information from opponent's signals.


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


       
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