[Husker] Telegraphing plays

[Matt Phillips]

Speaking of telegraphing plays, you can tell it's a run if it takes Sam 1
second to call the play in the huddle, and a pass if it takes 12 seconds -
and 2-3 glances as the QB wristband.  That seems really obvious to me.

This will be a problem on 3rd and ~3, when a defense really shouldn't know
what you're going to run.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Mike Jaixen
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:56 AM
> To: jonlists at cbsol.com; RMiller
> Cc: husker at tssi.com; husker-bounces at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Telegraphing plays
> 
> 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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