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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
And you are just being a jackass, which you do know shit about. If you (or Hank, but he's just trolling) really think that it doesn't hurt a team to guess wrong about what play is coming, and you really think it's because you know so much about the sport, then you could explain it. But you don't, because that's not really your point. You're just enjoying being a jackass.
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A linebacker may be the smartest player on the field. They are looking at most of the offensive players, looking for tendencies. Maybe a guard inadvertently angles his right foot inward when he is going to draw the next play. It doesn't mean he bets the farm the draw is coming, but when it starts to come he is reacting to it much quicker, he had it as a higher possibility. And of course he is ready if that read is wrong, and he has to go into pass coverage.
Knowing a 50% chance on what play is coming is not like Hitler refusing to send tanks to Normandy because he knows it's coming at Pas-de-Calais. You do not commit to that extent, they read and change up. Hell, QBs audible.
A defense that knows the exact play 50% of the time is going to have a real good day. The plays they are right are stopped cold. The others they are harmed very little.
But I'm a troll, so believe your odd confused views.
