Beathard's Audibles

[taco2212]

I love everything that CJ Beathard brings to the table from his heart to his live arm to his running ability along with all of the intangibles. The one intangible that most impresses me is his ability to read the defense and audible into a better play, and that skill has definitely resulted in some very big plays this year. While Greg Davis has received plaudits for an improved play book, better play calling and better game management, and to a certain extent rightfully so, I still feel it is CJ's ability to get the offense into a play that has a chance that is really making Davis and Ferentz look markedly better. Not to bash Jake Rudock, but I can hardly ever remember him audibling to a pass play in 2 years, and probably 90% of the time the stretch play that he would change to was blown up because opposing defenses would normally stack the box with their safeties because they knew what was coming when Rudock changed the play. Also, kudos to Davis and crew this year for getting plays in consistently quicker so that CJ can make the changes at the line of scrimmage.

 

[LuteHawk]

C.J. Beathard's grandfather was a football icon in college
and the pros. Some of that rubbed off.

 

[MadDogC]

He's better at audibling than Vlasic and Sherman were...

 

[WildTurk]

Rudocks only audible was a fullback stretch off the left side for a 1 yard gain. So predictable. Love how Iowa has evolved in a year. Bout time!

 

[KuwaitHawk]

Rudocks only audible was a fullback stretch off the left side for a 1 yard gain. So predictable. Love how Iowa has evolved in a year. Bout time!

Maybe that will be Michigan's favorite play if they make the B1G CCG

 

[Kurt Warner]

Rudock was book smart not football smart

 

[Herkmeister]

CJ is BIG TIME. I predict he'll get Heisman attention next season.

 

[IACub]

I believe our audibles are often just right or left, based on how the defense lines up.

 

[icantfindausernamethatisntused]

I believe our audibles are often just right or left, based on how the defense lines up.

This is true about 90% of the time. I don't think there is much of a difference between CJ's audibles and Jake's audibles. The difference in the offense this year has been that our RB's are performing at a much higher level, our offensive line is doing a better job of run blocking, and CJ has made a few big plays with his feet and arm-strength that Jake could not have made.

 

[desihawk]

CJ is BIG TIME. ....

Old Kirk: CJ has played well certainly. As we know, Rudock is doing an excellent job...very cerebral young man...we miss him and are thoroughly pleased with his performance at Michigan.

New Kirk: CJ has played well certainly.

 

[RocknRollface]

Im not positive on this but Ive heard/read a few times that Iowa has changed its audibles this year after basically using the same ones for quite a while.

 

[icu81222]

I love everything that CJ Beathard brings to the table from his heart to his live arm to his running ability along with all of the intangibles. The one intangible that most impresses me is his ability to read the defense and audible into a better play, and that skill has definitely resulted in some very big plays this year. While Greg Davis has received plaudits for an improved play book, better play calling and better game management, and to a certain extent rightfully so, I still feel it is CJ's ability to get the offense into a play that has a chance that is really making Davis and Ferentz look markedly better. Not to bash Jake Rudock, but I can hardly ever remember him audibling to a pass play in 2 years, and probably 90% of the time the stretch play that he would change to was blown up because opposing defenses would normally stack the box with their safeties because they knew what was coming when Rudock changed the play. Also, kudos to Davis and crew this year for getting plays in consistently quicker so that CJ can make the changes at the line of scrimmage.

I'm sorry but I have to laugh at people that know which plays he actually audibled and which ones he did not. People came on here last year talking about Jake audibling like they knew which ones he changed and which ones he didn't.

It's hilarious

 

[bravehawks1]

Old Kirk: CJ has played well certainly. As we know, Rudock is doing an excellent job...very cerebral young man...we miss him and are thoroughly pleased with his performance at Michigan.

New Kirk: CJ has played well certainly.

Correction for Old Kirk: That's football

 

[MarionHawk]

Agree with the comment above on not being sure when we there is an audible and when there is not an audible. From someone who worked for the team during Fry's era, it was about a 50/50 split between a live audible and a dead audible. Fry loved messing with teams that thought they need our audibles. We'd call dumby audibles all the time and teams thought they knew exactly where the ball was going.

 

[NashvilleHawk]

Ferentz has been so impressed with his audible skills that he now known as "CJ" instead of "CJ and Jake."

 

[trippnschmidt]

Correction for Old Kirk: That's football

I've heard him say "that's football" twice this year in post game interviews. Interesting how that gets overlooked.

 

[taco2212]

ICU----great point and glad you get some comic relief from various posts. My post stems more from post game interviews with Ferentz and players and other interviews/articles where Kirk/Davis/players have heaped praise on CJ for his ability to read the defense and check to successful plays. While my recollection may not be 100% accurate, I believe 3 examples of audibles resulting in touchdowns were the McCarron TD against the Clones, Kittle's TD and Canzeri's 75 yard run both against the Illini. Kirk has acknowledged multiple times this year CJ's ability to check into big plays, so while as a fan I do not know when it is a dumby audible or actual audible I assume Kirk does (but I suppose he could be making these things up to justify his QB switch in January).

 

[HawktimusPrime]

I love everything that CJ Beathard brings to the table from his heart to his live arm to his running ability along with all of the intangibles. The one intangible that most impresses me is his ability to read the defense and audible into a better play, and that skill has definitely resulted in some very big plays this year. While Greg Davis has received plaudits for an improved play book, better play calling and better game management, and to a certain extent rightfully so, I still feel it is CJ's ability to get the offense into a play that has a chance that is really making Davis and Ferentz look markedly better. Not to bash Jake Rudock, but I can hardly ever remember him audibling to a pass play in 2 years, and probably 90% of the time the stretch play that he would change to was blown up because opposing defenses would normally stack the box with their safeties because they knew what was coming when Rudock changed the play. Also, kudos to Davis and crew this year for getting plays in consistently quicker so that CJ can make the changes at the line of scrimmage.

I think many have noticed this about him. The QB's before him, Vandy, Rudock were both horrible at audibles. Stanzi was pretty good, and even changed plays on the fly at times. It is nice to see that CJ seems to know what to change, and how to change it. Agreed.

 

[candid]

Rudocks only audible was a fullback stretch off the left side for a 1 yard gain. So predictable. Love how Iowa has evolved in a year. Bout time!

Late on this reply but you should of waited until after the Mi/In game, Rudock played, arguably, the best qb for Mi that I can remember and I'm really, really old.

 

[DirtyJohns97]

Agree with the comment above on not being sure when we there is an audible and when there is not an audible. From someone who worked for the team during Fry's era, it was about a 50/50 split between a live audible and a dead audible. Fry loved messing with teams that thought they need our audibles. We'd call dumby audibles all the time and teams thought they knew exactly where the ball was going.

1. I want to hang out with Marionhawk and hear the stories from the Fry days.
2. What is a plaudit?

 

[Scott559]

I lived in Indy and attended many Colt games during the Manning era, Manning was the king of audibles, He always said he had 3 options when using audibles, Run left, Run right or pass. He also said audibles weren't used to come up with the perfect play, They were simply to get you out of a bad play against a particular defensive alignment. I have no idea how Iowa uses their audibles, It does look to me like C.J. has complete control of the offense and knows how to get the offense out of a "bad play".
The other thing about audibles, No matter how much latitude you give the QB in regard to audibles, Everyone on the offense has to be on the same page and know the audible packages, So in reality the QB is likely not the limiting factor in what a team can do in regard to how much they can change play calls at the line of scrimmage.