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Edwards subconsciously Telegraphing!

Has anyone else noticed that Edwards is giving away and telegraphing which way the run is going with the way he has his leg out and angled at the line, when he should be semetrical when taking the snap??? He'll have one leg forward and which ever direction the handoff is going and the play is designed to goin he'll have the other leg turned at an angle in that direction as if he's getting a head start!!!!AAGGGHHHHH! This is rediculous that an NFL coordinator is not catching this or else just not doing anything about it because he is the one calling the plays and also he is the one who should be correcting Edwards on his technique and positioning at the line! Now by no means is Edwards meaning to to do this-Edwards Telegraphing is done subconsciously! There are lots of things people do without realizing they are doing it to give things away in all types of things they do in everyday life, boxing especially would be an example of it, also poker would be a different kind of example where the players look for tell-tale signs and give aways to nervous habits or trends!--It's called telegraphing. In this case telegraphing the run and what direction the ball is going in--Just watch Edwards himself and the fact that the Patriots linebackers are immediatly headed in the right direction at the snap!!! Please just look it's right there!

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I would be very surprised becomes usually you stop doing that after Jr. High football, well in my exprience

by StuckInNJ on Nov 13, 2008 6:56 PM EST reply actions  

Rumor is they were actually addressing it in practice!

by Fam_1st on Nov 13, 2008 7:45 PM EST reply actions  

Yeah he Did this i think the majority of last year to

by Parrish11rules on Nov 13, 2008 7:52 PM EST reply actions  

I know it and I will be very happy if they are actually finally correcting it. So that our opponents linebackers are’nt on the play at the snap! And come to think about it, I know our O-Line is’nt very good but it could have something to do with our opponents having a good idea of what direction oue runs are heading and where the holes are designed to be open each play!

by Fam_1st on Nov 13, 2008 8:04 PM EST reply actions  

I can’t help but laugh when I see this. For several different reasons.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

by sireric on Nov 13, 2008 9:26 PM EST reply actions  

Wow!!!!!

I can’t believe the coaches didn’t take care of this during the preseason!!!!

by Joe P. on Nov 13, 2008 10:06 PM EST reply actions  

I just finished the Short Cuts version of the game. I didn’t see Edwards tipping the run direction at all. Maybe I’m just blind, but it’s not there to me. I did see his left foot a few inches back on one run play left, but that was after a signal for the WR to go in motion.

He sure looked square to me in this past game. Is this not in reference to the Pats game?

I did see a lot of poor blocking and predictable play calling…

~K

by Kurupt on Nov 13, 2008 10:10 PM EST reply actions  

It’s been going on since last season-I believe it was Rich Gannon who noticed it and talked about it during a game last season and was being sarcastic calling out each play before the snap and having fun with it!

by Fam_1st on Nov 13, 2008 11:11 PM EST reply actions  

That was because Edwards was making some hand signals, not because he had one leg behind the other..

~K

by Kurupt on Nov 14, 2008 12:08 AM EST up reply actions  

It might have been, but he mentioned more than that during the game and that it was a problem with Edwards but he seen a lot of promise in him and that it was obviously correctable! It’s not just as simple as a one leg behind the other thing. He did’nt mention hand signals. It was actually about Edwards telegraphing and his semetry,it’s slight but to a guy like Belichick that looks for anything at all under a microscope it can hurt when the defenders are aware to look for it.

by Fam_1st on Nov 14, 2008 12:55 AM EST reply actions  

How would Gannon have been familiar with our hand signals?

by Fam_1st on Nov 14, 2008 12:57 AM EST reply actions  

Watching film.

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by Brian Galliford on Nov 14, 2008 7:57 AM EST up reply actions  

It’s possible that Gannon might have had an interest in studying our play signals before in his preperations to broadcast the game but he would’nt hav known and been callingout the directions of our runs. It’s not having one leg behind the other, it’s Edwards having one foot forward and the other foot angled in the driection where he’s gonna hand the ball off and the direction the run is designed for. I seen while at the game and I went and seen it on my recording. I do’nt know but they said he was working on small imperfections on his footing this week in practice and I would’nt expect for them to openly admit to the puplic that this exist because then it would be aknowledging it’s a problem and tipping off every D-coordinator in the league to it. Oh well if it’s corrected I have a feeling that our not so good offensive line is gonna look a lot better on monday night! I can’t wait and am counting the hours and im not gonna know what to do with my sunday!

by Fam_1st on Nov 14, 2008 2:43 PM EST reply actions  

I’ll be at the chiefs game on the 23rd so hopefully the seats will be good enough to see something but I dought it-either way things are gonna be great being at the game but I hear the Chiefs and arrowhead have some of the wildest fans around. Stave Taskers family are gonna be there and his niece said she’d let me know where the Bills fans will be gathered for tail-gating. Sorry guys im just still thinking about it and hopefully we get a strong performance and the win monday so I can go into this game feeling good!

by Fam_1st on Nov 14, 2008 3:01 PM EST reply actions  

I hate the way he holds his arm as he throws.

While I’ve tried that and it helps with accuracy, that telegraphs the direction that the pass is going pretty obviously. Edwards needs to go back to the basics and work on this stuff.

by NJBillsfan on Nov 15, 2008 6:35 PM EST reply actions  

but don’t you want the QB to be squared up towards the WR he’s throwing to? Why would any QB give up accuracy to disguise where he might be throwing??

~K

by Kurupt on Nov 16, 2008 1:16 AM EST up reply actions  

I think that with the way we heard that there was some tweaking being done over the week leading up to the Browns game, that this was possibly addressed and we know that we seen remarkable improvment in our running game from both Lynch and Jackson in the game! It’s just to bad that we can’t say the same for Edwards performance!

by Fam_1st on Nov 19, 2008 5:04 PM EST reply actions  

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