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The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
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Oct 28, 2023, 9:11 PM
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A buddy of mine who really knows his football called me in the 1st quarter to get me to watch something. Practically every snap - just before Will Putnam snaps the ball, he trusts his left hand out over the line about a half second prior to snapping the ball. It appears that the NCSU, and others.... who knows, are keying on this and getting a slight jump off the ball by lunging on the drawback of his left hand.
Why would he do this? Surely it's not to signal OL, cuz if so... makes zero sense. Let the OL and the DL watch the ball, when it goes jump. Right now it appears if our opposing DL's are getting an edge.
Supposedly the OL talent is there.... what's missing? Rhetorical.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 28, 2023, 9:21 PM
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That's poor coaching.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 28, 2023, 9:22 PM
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We could actually use a snap count to give our OL an advantage. Works in NFL.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 28, 2023, 9:28 PM
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He’s been doing that all year. Makes no sense. It has to help the defense with timing. I noticed it at the FSU game.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 28, 2023, 9:33 PM
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It's not by accident or to somehow make snapping easier. Does he do it during home games? Hmm..
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Was wondering about the same thing.
Oct 29, 2023, 10:02 AM
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An edge for the OL is knowing when the snap will occur.
This hand motion right before the snap takes that away.
I don’t recall other centers doing this, makes it easy on the defense. Did NCSt have an offsides penalty? Wouldn’t think so because they know when the ball is being snapped.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 29, 2023, 10:23 AM
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I’ve noticed this a few times, thanks for pointing it out.
Poor coaching and poor technique will always undermine talent. This is likely one of many examples of our staff either not noticing or not knowing how to correct ineffective play. I’d wager it’s the latter since it’s so easy to see. Additionally, it’s an example of how our flawed approach to creating depth (non usage of the portal is part of this) makes it so a starter can repeatedly make this mistake and nothing happens, he just keeps starting and doing the same thing. One of those “little things” that ends up being a big deal. Unfort, I believe we have a lot of these.
Sincere thanks for this post. Wish we had more like this on football, our play and coaching. I still enjoy reading these even if it’s painful to see and admit.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 29, 2023, 10:37 AM
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I haven't noticed but it appears that other fans have which means other coaches have and surely means our coaching staff knows. If he is doing this, then it is a complete coaching failure not to change it. A really good offensive line would have a hard time getting a push if the defense gets the jump every time, and ours isn't really good.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 29, 2023, 10:46 AM
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It is called the "Dumbing Down of America" and it now reaches every crevice of society. QB's are not smart enough (supposedly) to call their own plays, defenses are not smart enough (supposedly) to know where to line up without direction from the sideline, offenses are not smart enough (supposedly) to go on a count or a signal so we tell the opposition when we are going to snap the ball and lose that advantage. When did we begin coddling our youth to the point where we do everything for them and they are not expected to use critical thinking until they are adults and it's too late and they have no skills, thus always depend on others to make decisions for them. No wonder we have so many 35 year olds still living in their parent's basement.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
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Oct 29, 2023, 11:31 AM
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Wow, go back to your walker and take your meds old man
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 29, 2023, 10:48 AM
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I noticed it during the Miami game, especially on that goal line stand. That goes back to POOR COACHING.
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Re: The Center Telegraphing His Snaps
Oct 29, 2023, 11:20 AM
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So the only question is does he do it as part of a weird nervous tick or is he helping to throw games?
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I was at the game - we noticed that tendency
Oct 29, 2023, 11:25 AM
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during the first half. He did it the entire game with a few exceptions. One of the exceptions was Ship’s 12 yard run to the goal line (the play where he was injured ).The play was a success - maybe just a coincidence.
But - that tendency HAS to help the defense
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