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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Unless the Pats didn't change their protection calls between games, deciphering calls before the start of a game isn't homework, it's espionage.
Yes- that is my understanding as well. They are dozens and dozens of protection schemes to chose from.By decipher, he likely means the specific words used to call the protections that game. I'm fairly certain these are changed between every game.
I didn't hear it till the second half.I thought the Rex Ryan call was pretty early in the game?
Why was this only successful when they rushed 3 and (maybe) 4?
So why didn't all this Bills knowledge and maneuvering work to stop Brady from finding Amendola, and why didn't it work with blitzes?
Why was this only successful when they rushed 3 and (maybe) 4?
Good question. The OL definitely struggled against those schemes where they'd line up 6 or 7 across and only send a few of them, dropping the others into coverage. I don't know why that was harder to handle than when all 6 or 7 actually rushed. Again, it seems like the Bills knew where the OL would be sliding on certain protection calls. I'm assuming they lined up in ways that took advantage of that.
Did the Bill's blitzes happen later, once the Pats started changing up the protection verbiage?Good question. The OL definitely struggled against those schemes where they'd line up 6 or 7 across and only send a few of them, dropping the others into coverage. I don't know why that was harder to handle than when all 6 or 7 actually rushed. Again, it seems like the Bills knew where the OL would be sliding on certain protection calls. I'm assuming they lined up in ways that took advantage of that.
I didn't hear it till the second half.
It may be as simple as lack of continuity and rust on that interior line though, rather than any Cold War level code breaking.
I thought the Rex Ryan call was pretty early in the game?
I heard it right away and also heard Gruden say that it would be a run to the right.
Should have named it "GOODELL SCUMBAG SCUMBAG HEY SCUMBAG."Wonder if that's where the Rex Ryan tag came from, from having to rename their plays on the fly.
So you think the OL all had bad games on the same night? Free rushers came from just about every gap. I specifically remember the safety coming straight up the middle on that Amendola completion - they lined up 2 over the center, the center took 1, but the left guard shifted away from the center to block another gap. Not sure if the call was wrong there, the LG was wrong, or the center took the wrong guy. But it happened so consistently it seemd more like good scheme than poor execution play after play.
You don't pull your center because the other team has your scheme. You pull your center because he's not getting the job done. I know people would like it to be an issue with some mysterious code cracked but, if it was, none of the signs point to that being the problem.
Sounds like the Bills did their homework on the Pats' line calls. That explains why the protection seemed so awful. Time to step up the level of disguise on those calls I guess.
Even after the Pats adjusted the calls, Pats O Linemen were losing 1 on 1 battles. There was poor execution all over the Pats OL.So you think the OL all had bad games on the same night? Free rushers came from just about every gap. I specifically remember the safety coming straight up the middle on that Amendola completion - they lined up 2 over the center, the center took 1, but the left guard shifted away from the center to block another gap. Not sure if the call was wrong there, the LG was wrong, or the center took the wrong guy. But it happened so consistently it seemd more like good scheme than poor execution play after play.
Good point, but I don't remember things getting noticeably better when Stork came in.