Hudspeth: UL must 'reevaluate' short-yardage plan

[zephyr]

Anyone who played or coached knows it matters..

Anyone who played or coached also knows that Dion Wallace was not the best running back we've ever had but you hold on to that one also.

[ManAboutTown]

Anyone who played or coached also knows that Dion Wallace was not the best running back we've ever had but you hold on to that one also.

That's your opinion.. I couldn't care less what you think about mine. Wallace was a beast.

[zephyr]

You don't think different QBs have a different rhythm for calling for the ball to be hiked?

Down.....set.....Omaha.....HIKE!

Whatever it is there have been several times over the last 1.25 seasons when Hauck / Jennings was driving the ball down the field and Hud puts in Nixon on a short yardage play and someone on the o-line false starts.

Am I crazy or have others noticed this also?

They have different tones to their voice. Not sure about the rhythm but linemen are now taught to watch the ball being snapped rather than any type of voice cues. Do I think there is a difference between two different signal callers? Yes. Do I think that it automatically causes an offense to fall apart due to these minute differences? NO. Teams change QB's all the time in the middle of a drive and they don't necessarily fall apart.

[zephyr]

That's your opinion.. I couldn't care less what you think about mine. Wallace was a beast.

So basically whatever you state on here is fact.....But whatever anybody else states is their opinion? Gotcha.

[ManAboutTown]

They have different tones to their voice. Not sure about the rhythm but linemen are now taught to watch the ball being snapped rather than any type of voice cues. Do I think there is a difference between two different signal callers? Yes. Do I think that it automatically causes an offense to fall apart due to these minute differences? NO. Teams change QB's all the time in the middle of a drive and they don't necessarily fall apart.

Yet it happens all the time... Hmm..

[Turbine]

LOL

Thanks for staying on topic.

Line, Ooffensive Line

[RaisingCajun08]

Cadence = QB Lives Matter

[Just1More]

Whether or not "cadence" is significant, it is the least of the issues with Nixon on short yardage. The 5 best offensive minds deciding how our team might improve on short yardage using our full range of personnel would not mention or consider "cadence" even once in their planning.

[ManAboutTown]

Whether or not "cadence" is significant, it is the least of the issues with Nixon on short yardage. The 5 best offensive minds deciding how our team might improve on short yardage using our full range of personnel would not mention or consider "cadence" even once in their planning.

This I can agree with. This Nixon thing is so strange. How much do they not trust him? They trust him to handle the ball, but apparently he's not trusted enough to throw it? But he was good enough to be our #2 QB? I don't understand the logic. And on that 4th down run against South Al, Jalen had the first down.. He just (decided I guess?) to go down, and ended up being short. He could have run for at least another 3-4 yards..

[Just1More]

This I can agree with. This Nixon thing is so strange. How much do they not trust him? They trust him to handle the ball, but apparently he's not trusted enough to throw it? But he was good enough to be our #2 QB? I don't understand the logic. And on that 4th down run against South Al, Jalen had the first down.. He just (decided I guess?) to go down, and ended up being short. He could have run for at least another 3-4 yards..

Hud trusted him with the entire offense last season. It doesn't make sense that there isn't more options in his short yardage assignment. From watching him last year, I'm not all that fired up about having him throw. I could easily see him rolling out, having an easy run in front of him for the first, and instead he throws an incompletion. If you think the forum critics were mad because he slipped on his runs in the past game, wait until that happens.

My feeling is we leave AJ in and either have Nixon in the backfield for several options... or we at least build some options from the same set with Nixon in the wildcat. The coaches should know what our personnel can pull off in short yardage. I think Nixon's oversimplified run out of the supposed wildcat was Hud still dreaming that we can "Zo" our way to first downs. We need a twist to Nixon in that set. Our coaches ought to know how that can be done.

[Turbine]

Aaron Rogers is the best in the hard count cadence business.

http://archive.jsonline.com/sports/p...130827943.html

[Just1More]

But we aren't talking about drawing the other side offsides. The changing of QBs and this cadence debate, I thought, was about whether it threw our OL off. I see that issue being very low on the list of considerations for deciding our short yardage dilemma.