Brady's calls at the LOS

[SVN]

Tom Brady?s calls, not arm, set stage for huge win | Boston Herald

interesting observations. Not sure how much of what howe is deciphering is true but Iam sure its not that simple.

 

[DarrylS]

Agree with you it does not seem to be that simple... between him and Peyton a lot of stuff is articulated in about 20 seconds...

 

[shmessy]

I 5 starred this thread.

THIS is what the game turned on Saturday night. What struck me is how Edelman, Blount and Ridley all guffawed when asked in the lockerroom about "Brady's night off". To a man, they all ridiculed the questioner with something along the lines of "Who do you think PUT the RB's in position behind the line to make those plays with his adjustments?"

Evidently, it was like Brady was practically playing a video game with the opposing D.

 

[nekromantique]

I 5 starred this thread.

THIS is what the game turned on Saturday night. What struck me is how Edelman, Blount and Ridley all guffawed when asked in the lockerroom about "Brady's night off". To a man, they all ridiculed the questioner with something along the lines of "Who do you think PUT the RB's in position behind the line to make those plays with his adjustments?"

Talib said the same things as well.

 

[DefenseRules]

I trust what the players have to say. They are the in the huddle, they know the game plan. All the media and us fans can do is speculate.

 

[SVN]

but we all know when the pats throw on 3rd and 1 its McDaniels dont we ?

 

[Rob0729]

So this will fuel the McDaniels haters to say when good plays happen it is because Brady checked out of a bad play and when bad plays happen it is because Brady ran McDaniels' play.

Brady is great at audibling and unlike his Denver counterpart, he has absolutely no problem audibling into a running play. Of course, Richard Sherman thinks Brady isn't smart enough to make those calls.

 

[Gumby]

I am not sure if I like a local news guy publicly deciphering Brady's line calls (so the Denver guys dont have to do their own homework) 6 days before they play Pay-me.

Yeah, I know they change them from week-week (or are supposed to); but even if giving them the calls from Indy game (plus what they have from the game played against each other); makes it ANY bit easier to decipher the new calls; I am not too keen on that.

From a personal fan perspective; neat info that helps better understand what is going on.

 

[Big-T]

That's poor form, do not publish the line calls along with what you think they meant. Jim Nantz took some flack on here for repeating Brady calling "Alabama" at the line so this article should be taking even more.

 

[Ochmed Jones]

I am not sure if I like a local news guy publicly deciphering Brady's line calls (so the Denver guys dont have to do their own homework) 6 days before they play Pay-me.

Yeah, I know they change them from week-week (or are supposed to); but even if giving them the calls from Indy game (plus what they have from the game played against each other); makes it ANY bit easier to decipher the new calls; I am not too keen on that.

From a personal fan perspective; neat info that helps better understand what is going on.

McDaniels will have new line calls for this game and BB will have a whole new defense for this game.

The key against Manning is to not let your safeties move before the snap, Manning reads defenses really well, but gets his first keys from what the safeties are doing.

Also if Denver resorts to run blitzes, be prepared to see a lot of screen passes.

 

[Uncle Rico]

That's poor form, do not publish the line calls along with what you think they meant. Jim Nantz took some flack on here for repeating Brady calling "Alabama" at the line so this article should be taking even more.

There was some pretty funny stuff with Manning calling out "Omaha" all game yesterday:

Omaha Nebraska thanks Peyton Manning | FOX Sports on MSN

 

[shmessy]

I am not sure if I like a local news guy publicly deciphering Brady's line calls (so the Denver guys dont have to do their own homework) 6 days before they play Pay-me.

Yeah, I know they change them from week-week (or are supposed to); but even if giving them the calls from Indy game (plus what they have from the game played against each other); makes it ANY bit easier to decipher the new calls; I am not too keen on that.

From a personal fan perspective; neat info that helps better understand what is going on.

That gives the Broncos nothing they can't already access in 5 milliseconds from an intern's scouting report.

 

[SacPete1]

I don't think those line calls necessarily mean the exact play. There may be a letter in a word which indicates which of the 2 plays called in the huddle is being run. The mike callout also is a signal for the offensive line and based on the position of the mike, each offensive lineman has a few different options based on how the front seven is lined up.
Those codes could also be combinations of plays or very often fake or placebo calls. It would be crazy to think that one word is to be associated with an entire play and that word is to be used as that play all the time. Now that would be pretty easy for a Defense.
Its like in the old days, when a play would be signaled in. A lot of the motions would be random and fake and the actual play would be a specific gesture that would change from game to game. I mean come on, would a team be so careless to keep the same signals.

 

[shmessy]

There was some pretty funny stuff with Manning calling out "Omaha" all game yesterday:

Omaha Nebraska thanks Peyton Manning | FOX Sports on MSN

I know a lot of "Linda"s who want to thank Tom Brady ......if ya know what I mean.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

But, but....I didn't hear Brady shout "Om-a-ha!" even once!

How can we say he's in charge?

 

[GaryfromTO]

There was some pretty funny stuff with Manning calling out "Omaha" all game yesterday:

Omaha Nebraska thanks Peyton Manning | FOX Sports on MSN

I guess Massachusetts is too hard for Manning to pronounce.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

There was some pretty funny stuff with Manning calling out "Omaha" all game yesterday:

Omaha Nebraska thanks Peyton Manning | FOX Sports on MSN

I think we need video (no sound) to Manning's calls at the line of scrimmage. speed it up slightly and have the chicken-dance music playing and it might sync up pretty good.

I wonder if the arm flapping adds another dimension to the audible/communication. I would think not because you want to rely on voice only.

 

[UK_Pat37]

That's poor form, do not publish the line calls along with what you think they meant. Jim Nantz took some flack on here for repeating Brady calling "Alabama" at the line so this article should be taking even more.

They don't have a clue what 'White 80' actually means. Or any of the calls. They have no idea if he was checking out or if he was calling a load of nothing.

'White' might actually mean nothing. When you use colours, you often change the 'active colour' every week and use other ones to throw the defence off...so that they don't actually know what the active colour is. The same goes with words. Some teams use active words.

For instance, say 'black' is the colour and Brady calls 'Black 80', they know that Brady is checking out and in to whatever '80' is. If he calls 'white 80', the players know he's just talking rubbish to throw the D off.

Sometimes you'll see Manning and Brady saying stuff at the line and you might think 'I wonder what he's checking out of now' when , actually, it doesn't mean a thing. QBs always call fake audible throughout the game. If they didn't, their audible could be worked out. It's all deception.

Not all of Manning's arm waving actually means anything. A huge chunk of it is deception.

This article really is as bad as Curran's! All speculation and guess work. You or I could have written that and made it sound believable!

 

[nabwong]

I know a lot of "Linda"s who want to thank Tom Brady ......if ya know what I mean.

So every time Brady says Linda, it's bang that in the center real hard?

 

[PP2]

That's poor form, do not publish the line calls along with what you think they meant. Jim Nantz took some flack on here for repeating Brady calling "Alabama" at the line so this article should be taking even more.

Yes, especially because we know the Broncos or any other team attempting to scout us would rather read the Herald to come up with clues, instead of listening to game tape.

IMO, since Brady doesn't use it on every play, "white 80" is an indicator that whatever verbiage that comes after it is live, and anything before it is either garbage that Brady throws out to get the defense to tip its hand, or to cause false starts, along the lines of "Simon Says."

And as has been said before, the verbiage does change week to week although I suspect they do have a certain familiarity, such as any word starting with the letter "L" (Linda, Lunch, Ladder) signifies left side, "R" for right, or "S" for strong side plays, and I'm sure even and odd numbers have their own significance, etc.