Hurry up / No huddle

it seems like if you convert a 3rd and short, and the other team has their “heavy” personel out there, you can just turn on the no huddle, keep their fatties out there, and start dicing them up before they can substitute or get set.

Teams like Ohio State send out the beefy 3rd and short linement that can’t play more than a few downs before they’re completely gassed. You force them to call a timeout, take a penalty, or play with the wrong personel.

but like I said, maybe it doesn’t work like that, I’m no coach…

Oklahoma’s playcalling system puts our’s to shame, especially with the 3-man signaling system they got there. I think on one of the plays last night when running the no huddle it took them like 8 seconds between snaps to run the next play.

I don’t even want to think of which is which…

Since in my mind (and whenever I play playstation against friends, not the computer) I orchestrate my playcalling to “set up” a certain play or set of plays. Like for example (really “simple” example) I’d maybe run off tackle to the right, run an option to the right, eventually get him to cheat his secondary over in that direction, and then hit a slant or out or streak out to the left. Obviously playstation and real football are 2 VERY different beasts, but I’d imagine the play planning, etc, would be even more critical in a real game.

I don’t see why they can’t set up a general gameplan ahead of time and send in a sequence of 3 or 4 plays, like, “1st play: WR screen to the right. If that makes it 2nd and less than 3, then try a deep pass play, otherwise run the option to try to at least make it 3rd & short, etc”

I mean hell, my 11 yr old nephew is able to run an offense like that on his Pee-wee team where his coach sends him a few situational plays in advance, so I don’t see why guys with 10 more years of football experience can’t handle the same.

Now my obligatory proud uncle rave: that kid is sweet. I can’t believe how good he looks playing QB, and he’s only friggen 11. Before games, without his coach even knowing, he’d bring his WRs out an hour early and practice some of their routes until he got the timing down perfect. I don’t really know what it was for, I think some recruiting service or whatever, but my brother in law showed me a video of Ron Jaworski and Blair Thomas doing a recap of one of his games…I think maybe their championship game. Of course Blair Thomas completely butchered his name, but oh well :-p Unfortunately I think my nephew prefers pitching over football, and my sister is all too eager to get him out of the “dangerous sport”.