Hand Signals on Offense

[bigforkgriz]

I was going to title it "Offensive Hand Signals" but thought better of it.

Someone else did mention this somewhere in a thread. Anyway, when Makena almost threw the pick on the bubble screen because the DB jumped the route, I had a thought. That was one hell of a jump by the defender. It occurred to me that possibly it wasn't just a good read because of our heavy use of the play, but a reading of our hand signals. The lack of separation of our receivers and the earlier pick six which also was jumped by the defender also me helped think of the possibility. The guy calling plays has a green hat, we have no one else as a decoy play caller. We have the third string QB which we have to simplify to. Are we using any decoy signals? This thought actually came to me in the previous game. Or is it like some say we throw long, we run for two yards and throw the bubble screen and that is our predictable offense. Are we readable or just predictable?

 

[jodcon]

My thought is our line issues have forced us to be a bit predictable because our QB's don't have a lot of time for plays to develop, so we throw a lot of quick hitters and fly patterns because the QB can release those quickly, plus they really don't respect our run very much at the moment.

There's nothing harder than trying to run an offense with no time. One mans opinion.

 

[brewskis]

This offense doesn't have set plays. Pretty much each play has a run option, short route option, intermediate, and deep option. Brady spread things out better, but our backups ave been pretty limited. I think what we saw was the defense picking up on that.

 

[wsucatfan]

This offense doesn't have set plays. Pretty much each play has a run option, short route option, intermediate, and deep option. Brady spread things out better, but our backups ave been pretty limited. I think what we saw was the defense picking up on that.

The OT fumble was a blitz called by Coach Hill. On the radio he said he had a gut feeling what UM was going to do. That worked out better than he could have hoped. Like Brewskis said with a 3rd string QB with limited reps you're not digging too deep in the playbook.

 

[brewskis]

This offense doesn't have set plays. Pretty much each play has a run option, short route option, intermediate, and deep option. Brady spread things out better, but our backups ave been pretty limited. I think what we saw was the defense picking up on that.

The OT fumble was a blitz called by Coach Hill. On the radio he said he had a gut feeling what UM was going to do. That worked out better than he could have hoped. Like Brewskis said with a 3rd string QB with limited reps you're not digging too deep in the playbook.

I'm not against the screen game, with a good Z wr its a safe play that can get positive yards and occasionally they bust for big plays. Unfortunately we don't have a very good Z and our QBs lean on it too much. Sort of a worst case scenario.