Acantha Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Same for protection -- it sounds complicated (and it is) but once you learn the language it's more efficent. I didn't believe it till I got to college ball and had to deal with it. It just clicks eventually. But it took a while...and I wasn't a QB. 781356[/snapback] This is why I played defense!
LynchMob23 Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Also, a lot it depends on what offense you go into. The west coast offense is notorious for the amount of verbiage before the actual play comes out. You move to something like say Chow, it's friendly, but you still better know your alignments and the pre-called shifts in alignment or you're going to look stupid out there! Think of it like a foreign language - the more you can conjugate and do the day to day, they better you'll be. That's why a lot of these younger QBs are learning about the philosophy behind the play to help them along in the ideas behind each play, so they know (or think they know) where the play goes. WARNING - Large Example coming up. Here's the Audibles Gruden uses (or used in 98 with the Raiders) from his mini camp playbook: That's a lot to learn, and that's just the audibles!
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