No offensive meltdown yesterday....

What I don't understand is why people bring up the snap count as an advantage to the Defense. Has anyone on here ever heard of a quick count and even the thought of going on two or maybe three.

Stop using that as an excuse, vanialla offense maybe but not snap count.
 
refrigeratormover said:
Stop using that as an excuse, vanialla offense maybe but not snap count.
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Just like a hitter usually has the advantage when he knows a fastball is coming.
Hopefully, opposing defenses will be on their heels a bit at the LOS.

Without a doubt in my mind, R Friedgen's greatest weapon at Tech was making talented defenses play honest. #14 wasn't a bad tool either.
 
floridajacket, our 1st string offense was playing against the 2nd string defense yesterday. I don't think it is expecting too much for the 1st string O to beat up on the 2nd string D, vanilla or not.
 
rm, the implication from what some people at the scrimmages have stated is that the offense has to go on the same count every play. If true the defense knows exactly when the ball will be snapped and can be moving at the snap. That's the point.
 
ncjacket said:
rm, the implication from what some people at the scrimmages have stated is that the offense has to go on the same count every play. If true the defense knows exactly when the ball will be snapped and can be moving at the snap. That's the point.
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That just can't be possible....you might as well as plant the defensive line or the blitzer in the backfield. I think the implication is that the defense was able to effectively guess the snap.
 
statelinejacket said:
That just can't be possible....you might as well as plant the defensive line or the blitzer in the backfield. I think the implication is that the defense was able to effectively guess the snap.
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I went to the Saturday scrimmage at BDS-GF eight days ago. I saw/heard Reggie try to draw the defense offsides with his voice inflections and it almost worked. That says to me there was no set snapcount.

However, the offense couldn't call audibles. That's got to make a HUGE difference in the ability to keep the defense from hammering the o-line...
 
If the comments about the scrimmage actually talked about the 1st team offense vs. the 2nd team defense, that certainly does throw my comments out the window.

Not really sure about the whole snap count thing either. At least from my amateur perspective, I see how often the defense tries to guess the snap count and I assumed knowing it would help the defenses out a lot.
 
I'm just saying that's what the comments sounded like stateline. Otherwise I don't know why there would have been any mention. Defenses try to anticipate the count all the time so there's nothing new there. Nothing else seemed to make sense. But then again, I wasn't there and don't know.
 
I believe what JD was saying. Unpredictable snap counts don't mean a thing if the offense is predictable.
Hopefully that is not the case.
 
Well, they have pretty much said they weren't running the new stuff they've been working on. Plain vanilla in other words, with no audibles and no QB running. I'm not sure why we even bothered to tell you the truth.
 
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