Bama Stealing Signals?

[Bookerdawg]

I was at the game yesterday sitting in the end zone with a good view of the field. I kept noticing the Bama defenders making “abnormal” motions before the snap (waving hand flat over head. I finally figured they were calling out pass. Then on running plays multiple defenders were pointing to a spot. And every time....we ran to that spot. I left convinced they were calling our plays pre-snap.

This tends to make more sense that their defense would go from being a “huge” liability in people’s mind (I live just outside Tuscaloosa and heard it for the first half is the season). To now.....they are the iron curtain overnight.

Win at all costs I guess.

 

[RightOfCenter]

I noticed either KU or FLA do the same thing against state.

 

[Bulldog45]

Don’t forget, in January Saban hired Josh Gattis who was Moorhead’s WR/passing game coordinator at PSU.

 

[msstate7]

As long as they aren't listening in on headsets or something, so what... if a team isn't hiding their calls good enough, take advantage

 

[MarkDallas]

That's impossible. We only call RPOs.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

our guys do the same thing a lot of the time before the play. just a habit of studying a ton of film and tendencies with down and distances. also with the rpo, they should be forcing pass so they expect the pass. not saying they aren't doing it because obvious something is always going on with the refs.

 

[bulldognation]

At the 2011 Auburn game, Mullen accused Chizik of listening in on our headsets and the officials made both sides take them off.

Probably happens more often than you think. And if you start arguing it mid-game like Mullen did, you wind up looking like some tin-foil conspiracy idiot.

 

[ShrubDog]

I was at the game yesterday sitting in the end zone with a good view of the field. I kept noticing the Bama defenders making “abnormal” motions before the snap (waving hand flat over head. I finally figured they were calling out pass. Then on running plays multiple defenders were pointing to a spot. And every time....we ran to that spot. I left convinced they were calling our plays pre-snap.

This tends to make more sense that their defense would go from being a “huge” liability in people’s mind (I live just outside Tuscaloosa and heard it for the first half is the season). To now.....they are the iron curtain overnight.

Win at all costs I guess.

That aint ****. I was calling out plays before they happened while sitting in a tree hundreds of miles away, we all have the capability with our team.

 

[HotMop]

RPO = Fitz going back to center, changing the play and running a draw after pulling it back from Hill.

 

[operch]

They spend more money on off the field personal than anyone in football. Any football.

And with all that with just calling the game like any other game we would have had a good chance of beating them.

By that i mean. if the ball comes out let it play then look at it.

Example. Their second fumble. I do not believe the receiver was down. Let's say whistle had blown. If so it was to quick of a whistle. Example. Anyone remember late in the game, Bama was driving and their RB broke thru anf we piled him up about 3/4 yards down the field. Held him up was pushing him back them three Bama linemen aught up and pushed him forward another three yards. His forward motion had been stopped yet the whistle did not blow and they spotted the ball at the furthers spot down the field.

Case closed.

The whole game is called to the advantage of Bama.

 

[DancingRabbit]

Speaking of off the field personnel, why is Butch Jones on the field?

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They spend more money on off the field personal than anyone in football. Any football.

And with all that with just calling the game like any other game we would have had a good chance of beating them.

By that i mean. if the ball comes out let it play then look at it.

Example. Their second fumble. I do not believe the receiver was down. Let's say whistle had blown. If so it was to quick of a whistle. Example. Anyone remember late in the game, Bama was driving and their RB broke thru anf we piled him up about 3/4 yards down the field. Held him up was pushing him back them three Bama linemen aught up and pushed him forward another three yards. His forward motion had been stopped yet the whistle did not blow and they spotted the ball at the furthers spot down the field.

Case closed.

The whole game is called to the advantage of Bama.

 

[DancingRabbit]

Any truth to the rumor Bama D calling out cadence caused the 2 early snaps?

Saw it mentioned somewhere once but nothing since. Probably just Sabear mind control tricks.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Probably not since we were just using a clap. Were the defensive linemen clapping?

 

[archdog]

At the 2011 Auburn game, Mullen accused Chizik of listening in on our headsets and the officials made both sides take them off.

Probably happens more often than you think. And if you start arguing it mid-game like Mullen did, you wind up looking like some tin-foil conspiracy idiot.

Yeah and then magically our offense could move the ball. I remember that very clearly.

 

[tcdog70]

Probably not since we were just using a clap. Were the defensive linemen clapping?

OLE 74 SAID HE HEARD A CLAP

 

[HueFreeze]

i'm just impressed someone else knows what we are trying to do**

 

[coachnorm]

That is why you have the true signal caller with dummy signal callers next to him? Stealing signals has been done even at the Pop-Warner level at times. All a program needs to do is record the signal with their iPhone and match it to the digital video, just that easy. Even upper tiered high school defenders will listen to the opposition play caller if he verbally calls in a play. In this case the play caller better have color codes to disguise the call? The offense is responsible for its communication security. This has been going on for decades. Why do you think play callers cover their mouths? I believe that Mississippi State is well aware of this. Now Auburn taping into our press box and listening to a so called secure connection is another story.

 

[seshomoru]

Saves money to have the dummy be the one calling the plays too.

 

[thf24]

Some players just get very good at play recognition. Beni Brown would call plays pre-snap for us in much the same way fairly consistently.

 

[coach66]

It seems like they hire or try to hire every SEC head coach that gets fired. It

appears to be intelligence gathering to me. Unlimited budgets are nice if you have them.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

Especially when you consider the equipment that the league mandates for all the coaches to communicate comes from a company owned by a huge Auburn booster. I remeber that from the headset-gate game.