Communication breakdowns? Wait, wasn't that Missouri Defense 2008, not 2009?
"Yeah, it did surprise me a lot," Ebner said. "We have wristbands with the plays on them, and we also use signals. The first thing we did dating all the way back to spring ball is make sure everyone knew the signals, from first string down to fourth string, from D-linemen to the secondary. Everyone has to know the call and the signals and we have to communicate it."
So, what brought those problems back?
"I don’t know," linebacker Andrew Gachkar said. "I haven’t seen errors like that since last year. Honestly, I couldn’t tell you. At points, the crowd was so loud that people weren’t getting the same calls. Some people might have been running a zone while some people were running a blitz. It was just a mess."
Dave Matter, on the biggest problem from last night. I guess we can talk all we want about Gabbert's ankle, but if the breakdowns are signs of imminent regression instead of simply a bad game, then it could be even more important than any specific body part of #11.
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Bill C.
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I'm not an expert or anything
But how about give the plays a number and have a couple guys on the sidelines with one of those notebooks with huge numbers on it and designate one guy per series to be the real number and take that number and do some simple math and get the play off your wrist band…so if he’s holding up 3 and you know everything is x2 for the drive, you’re running play 6. Pretty simple, really.
Or maybe YOU JUST COVER YOUR FREAKING ASSIGNMENTS. I don’t remember the play specifically, but if you look in the game thread you see me ask who #3 was. They had an angle from behind the QB, and you could see him completely ignore his assignment, which was contain on the left. He crashed towards McCoy who had handed off to someone and bounced outside for a gain of like 20 or something.
Covering the assignments makes sense on the play you mentioned
But, technically, on the Chiles touchdown, Gettis thought he was covering his assignment because of the wrong play call. Because of the miscommunication, he expected safety help over top that wasn’t there.
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