Watching the NFL 's Jaws describe the NFL game coming up, he showed a play where the defensive team positioned the players so it looked like there was a big defensive gap inviting the offensive team to audible and attack that weakness, they did attack it and the defensive team at the start of the play moved somebody to fill the gap. Mostly under Rudock, a running play was audibled and got no gain.
Why Iowa's audibles don't work
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thanks, i've forwarded this to Greg Davis!
Hmmm...all the opposing teams that couldn't stop us this year will now employ this strategy. Why oh why did did you let the cat out of the bag? Can you delete before Big Ten coordinators read?
Except some of our audibles do work. And none of us knows when we are actually calling an audible or the QB is calling a fake audible.
If the defense is expecting pass, we should run it instead and trick them.
On the flip side of that, we should pass it if the defense thinks we are going to run, thus also tricking them.
We could also take this a step further and fake a run play and then pass it when the defense thinks we will run, once again tricking them.
In conclusion, we just need to ask the defenders what they think we will do before each play and then do the opposite. To trick them.
On the flip side of that, we should pass it if the defense thinks we are going to run, thus also tricking them.
We could also take this a step further and fake a run play and then pass it when the defense thinks we will run, once again tricking them.
In conclusion, we just need to ask the defenders what they think we will do before each play and then do the opposite. To trick them.
So we need to ask the safeties what the defense is trying to prevent?
This could all get complicated. What if the safeties lie and say they are playing the run when they are really playing the pass? Then we could be the ones getting tricked!
But what if we punt on 3rd down then we would really trick them!!
I was so impressed with this post that I called Coach Ferentz and told him about your analysis of Iowa's audibles. He thinks your observation is brilliant and has decided to stop utilizing audibles from here on out.
And yet you think you know more than a staff that just went 12 and freakin 0 in the regular season.
Hello Pot, meet Kettle.
I saw the movie with Jaws. In the end he was outsmarted by Roy Scheider. Color me unimpressed.
Jaws didn't say a single thing about "Why Iowa's audibles don't work." He pointed out one specific thing about one play, and you projected it to the entire Iowa audible system.
CJ could ask one cornerback what the other cornerback would say if he was lying, and then do the opposite. I'm pretty sure that would work most the time.
But what if one of the corners spent years building up immunity to Iocane powder? Surely he would win the battle of wits.
Tell me specifically which plays JR audibled and which ones were dummy calls.
This kind of thread pops up from time to time and it's just laughable. Are you guys serious? Amazing.
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We should just have our back up receivers on the sidelines about 20 yards down from the line of scrimmage. Once the play starts, they jump out on the field when nobody is looking; BOOM--first down, baby!
We could have CJ bark out different names of Nebraska cities while he looks around and points at different things.
Now the subject has been brought up, I think the KF's audible routine is hokey. Why do it? Why run the snap count down continuously for no apparent reason? Call a play in the huddle and run it. Run a hurry-up offense from time to time to throw the defense off. But to continually come to the line, call audibles, running the play clock down to 2 seconds, then run off tackle 70% of the time anyway is ridiculous. Hell, I know what play is coming.
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