IU Stealing Defensive Signals?

Stealing Signals = Old Exams. Don't want them reused then change them

Is this why there was this team of guys holding up white towels around Mattison during the game?

We saw this up in the stands and thought maybe they were creating a solid background so Mattison's signals could be more clearly seen.

 

you could see assistants holding up towels behind them, blocking the IU view from the press box.  i'm sure there's somebody that's got a picture for that.   then the defensive calls would ripple from the michigan sideline corner and/or safety, to the rest of the defensive backfield.  they used hand signals at that point, signifying of course the coverage.   our d-line was tapping their hips on stunts, which is pretty standard.  

then IU would fake the silent snap, look at the sidelines for a new play, then run it.  

So, based on the results from last Saturday, we can conclude that stealing the opponents defensive signals to adjust their offense pre-snap is another thing we can to the list of things that Indiana sucks at?

The only thing that surprises me is that we apparently don't have anyone working on their signals.

My thought is if our signals are easy to steal then it's not a big deal when teams steal them. It happens in baseball. 

I've been wondering for about six weeks now if teams were onto our offensive signals. I just don't see our offense being as bad as it's looked in some of these games and even marginal opposing defenses seem to be in just the right package or position to stop exactly what we are doing far, far too often.

Since they are on like their 5th String QB I say let them have the signals

Does mattison bringing this up encourage other teams to try to do the same thing?

probably concentrate on just running good plays because stealing signals didn't exactly help them out much, at all, LOL this is funny.

 

 

Just like everyone murders.

Nussmeier doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd be dumb enough to not know how to mask our play calling. I just think our player development overall is that bad. And it's not something Nuss could've fixed in one year.

And in the situation where he hasn't been able to mask what we're doing on offense, well, then we deserve to lose.

We'll this explain mattinson calling plays from under a towel on Saturday.

Well, it didn't seem to help them all that much.

I always thought the sign stealing argument was kinda dumb.  You're trying to beat the other team, and they are not trying to hide the signals all that much; I mean, it would be one thing if the other team hacked into the headset mics and listened into that level of communication.  But beyond that, even if you know the play is coming you still have to execute and stop it.

An NFL assistant told me that he knew the signals of an opposing coach because they used to work together a few years previous. He said that former players often share signal info and terminology with their new teams.  

I inferred that the on-field signal 'stealing' was pretty common and generally not an open beef as long as teams weren't obvious.  However, players sharing info with their new teams was a bit trickier.

It's a silly rule in the pros and makes no sense here.  Other sports make an art form of stealing signs.  This should be no different.

If Mattison believes the purpose of the hurry-up is to get players in position so they can steal your signs, he's missing the whole point. I don't need to steal your signs if I see your CB lined up 10 yards off the LOS. I just look at the field and adjust my playcall accordingly. I don't need to steal your sign to know if you are blitzing. I just do a hard count and see if the LBs are coming. Then I adjust my play call accordingly.

Meanwhile, Michigan calls a bubble screen regardless of how the defense is lined up. We have no concept of how modern offenses work. We never audible into a better play, or out of a poor play. If the CBs are in bump and run, and we've called a bubble screen or quick pass to the WR, we stay with that call. Maybe we haven't had enough time to implement the system, but after 9 games it's just more of the same and it hurts to watch.

of another team stealing our defensive signals than our offensive one.  So many times it seems like the other team knows what offensive play we're going to run -whether it's because of stealing the signals or us telegraphing what we're going to do, or just running the same plays in the same situations over and over.  Anyway, it didn't seem to help IU that much. 

Unfair Advantage

Hoke: "We've had a great week of practice stealing signals".