Coaches often do this to feel out other teams game plan.

Jul 27, 2014
9:49:17pm

NWCoug

By deliberately calling certain formations and plays they can see what the defense plans to do against those formations and use that for game plan and adjustments the rest of the game.

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First 20 plays scripted every game. No deviation.

idacoug

7/27/14 8:34pm

Are they the same for every game? Or are they scripted for each game

SuperTank

7/27/14 8:37pm

Scripted for each game.

idacoug

7/27/14 8:46pm

I wonder if that's how Van Noy knew where to be on 1st play vs USU

hxmCougar2000

7/27/14 11:15pm

And those scripted plays include audibles/read options where the QB makes

basman

7/27/14 8:37pm

Green Bay Packers script their opening drive.

kudzucoug

7/27/14 8:37pm

I'm pretty sure just about every team scripts their first drive.

kccougar

7/27/14 8:46pm

I think they would have to be different or Defensive Coordinators

BYUALWAYSNUM1

7/27/14 8:39pm

The forty niners did that with Young.

RalphWiggam

7/27/14 8:49pm

Yes, it was part of Walsh's system

mogelijk

7/28/14 12:36am

I'm ok with it at BYU. Maybe they call more than

unctoothman

7/27/14 8:54pm

Repeat 6 times (4 if we count punts) and you've got 20

byutx

7/27/14 10:10pm

Don't be a playa hata

Bravescoug

7/27/14 9:01pm

Yes. Happens all the time.

Shimmy

7/27/14 9:04pm

Playas, by nature, are unscripted territory

Bob Vance

7/27/14 9:08pm

Bill Walsh won several Super Bowls doing this.

LifeLongLakerFan

7/27/14 9:36pm

Helped having Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.

BengalCougar

7/27/14 9:38pm

Coaches often do this to feel out other teams game plan.

NWCoug

7/27/14 9:49pm

RE: First 20 plays scripted every game. No deviation.

CougarCountry8

7/27/14 10:15pm

Welcome to football.

molodyets

7/27/14 11:20pm

standard industry practice

Y05

7/28/14 4:35am

the purpose is to see how the opponent

Y05

7/28/14 4:39am

^^^What he said^^^

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