SIMPLE Audible System?

D86,

My QB's just use the phrase "Bump It" at the LOS to change the huddle call play side.

Coach Easton

D86,

To go along with Duke, we also use a HOT color/Number system. And like Tiger One we use an alert word to tell the Offense that the play is being audibled.

There are several reasons why defenses cannot decipher our system.

#1-We use the HOT color/Numbers in the cadence on every play. So all plays, at least to the defense, sound the same. Just a bunch of colors and #'s

#2-We pair plays so much and use Option-On-Me so much that #1 would confuse anyone trying to decode the system.

#3-Simply there is nothing to decode. Sometimes the HOT colors/Numbers mean something, sometimes not. But, we could run approx. the whole play book using the Color/Number cadence.

Hope this makes sense.

Coach, in addition to our "Bump It" to change sides, my entire audible system is built around states and cities and numbers. Total example of our system follows: QB calls a play in the huddle, then proceeds to LOS. In our " Check with me " system, I furnish him two additional play calls for every play called in the huddle. If he reads something that he wants to check out of and into another play, he must confine himself to the two additonal plays I have given him. One is always a run, the other always a pass. If he goes outside of these perameters, he had better be right with his decision to override my call. At any rate, lets say he wants to check out at the line into another Running play. Running plays are always prefaced with the name of a city, i.e. "Detroit", "Miami" " Baltimore", etc. He then calls a series of three numbers such as "30 34 36" . The second number is the "hot" number for a run and we would run a 34
(back thru the 4 hole) at the command "GO!" So sequence would be "Detroit, Detroit, 30-34-36 go!
If he decides on a pass the call is always prefaced by the name of a state such as "Tennesee", Alabama,
Florida", etc. and the first number is the "hot" number. Example: Florida, Florida, 55, 30, 46 go! A 55 is a 7 yd. curl by our two wide outs running mirror routes. We keep everyone else in for max pro. The 0 line knows this calls for aggressive pass blocking, with hat on hat. We run the play. It is short, very concise, and does away with having to set the pass pro at the LOS. Just my way, but I have used it for years and it works swell.

Coach Easton

When audibling, how do your linemen communicate. How do they make line calls?
Great information fellas!

I guess I'll weigh in on this one too. Personally, I feel that the easiest way to accomplish something is the easiest, and audibles are no different. We use a "flip" call to change from left to right (or right to left) and we do pair Veer and Midline. If we had veer called but the QB audibles with any color and "switch" at the LOS, we are going to run midline. The opposite would be true as well.

As for straight audibles, I'm a "name" guy. We have basically five plays that the QB can audible to in our regular no huddle (not hurry up). Every play would have a name that indicates which play we're running. The plays that we audible to often (like veer and midline) will have more than one name, but they are related. If "Houston" is an audible for Veer, we could use a sports team in Houston, like "Astro". The colors are meaningless, but we use a variety to pretend there's some "hot" color, all even numbers (42, 26, 88) mean were running right, odd numbers go left. If teams are really trying to learn our system during the course of the game, they're spending more time trying to figure out our audibles than thinking about their option responsibilities. With our system, players only have to remember the word/play association and know their left from their right.