Northwestern stole our signals - Martinez

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Taylor said in today's presser that Northwestern's defenders were watching our plays being signaled in from the sidelines and they figured out our plays by stealing our signs.

Rich Kaipust says:

Taylor Martinez said Monday that Northwestern did its homework last week, and it might have resulted in the Wildcats’ defense having a feel for what the Nebraska offense was going to do Saturday.

The NU quarterback said “they were looking at our sidelines to see what plays we were running” and “they maybe kind of caught on to what we were doing.”

“It was a lot of film study, I’d say,” Martinez said. “It’s Northwestern … smart school.”

Martinez got some laughs with that last comment, but said the Huskers might have to work on mixing up their signals going forward to combat it happening again.

In its no-huddle offense, Nebraska comes to the line of scrimmage, assesses the defense, then usually steps back and looks to a handful of people on the sideline signaling in the call. Only certain ones are “live” – relaying the play coming from offensive coordinator Tim Beck in the press box – while the others are decoys.

Martinez said he never noticed another opponent this season trying to figure it out.

“During the game, I kind of caught on that every time we would look over there, (they) were looking at me for the play or at the sidelines for the play,” Martinez said. “So during the game we kind of mixed up each signal.”
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I think this is pretty much the norm especially with defenses that try to defend the no huddle. This is why 3 sometimes 4 guys are giving signals on the offensive sideline, its too throw the defense off.

 
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Very interesting if they did figure out our signals. I didn't hear the press conference, but hopefully he wasn't using this as an excuse. Either way, still doesn't explain the defensive struggles.

 
MJSkers said:
Very interesting if they did figure out our signals. I didn't hear the press conference, but hopefully he wasn't using this as an excuse. Either way, still doesn't explain the defensive struggles.
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Very true.

Even if NW knew, though, it looked to me that Nebraska still just wasn't performing up to snuff. They looked sluggish and were getting hit off the ball by a less skilled defensive line.

Defensively, the most troubling part is that our defensive line really got shoved around, allowing for big holes. Sometimes I wonder if it's not so much scheme as it is athleticism, something Mckewon alluded to in a story.

 
MJSkers said:
Very interesting if they did figure out our signals. I didn't hear the press conference, but hopefully he wasn't using this as an excuse. Either way, still doesn't explain the defensive struggles.
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This. The offense didn't help any by all the fumbles we lost and the defense struggled. Even if they did steal signals we still could have won the game if the defense would have played better.

 
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MJSkers said:
Very interesting if they did figure out our signals. I didn't hear the press conference, but hopefully he wasn't using this as an excuse. Either way, still doesn't explain the defensive struggles.
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My thoughts exactly. If they did have it figured out, we were still moving the ball on them fairly well for the most part. I really don't think any excuses need to be made for the offense, because aside from a couple fumbles and a couple questionable play calls in critical down situations (a 3rd and short in a 3-down situation and a 4th and short toward the end of the game come to mind) our offense did alright.

 
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Sounds like a pretty lame excuse to me. In today's game, if you don't have a way for the other team not to be able to tell what you're calling then that's on you not them. We had ways around it on my high school team and we'd always switch it up if we expected our opponent was catching on.

 
They must have figured out and stole our OL signals. You know the one where they signal in for absolutely no one to block.

 
Several teams using a sideline signals via big poster which displayed a weird faces or scenery pictures, mascots, strange words, etc.

What's the purpose? I don't get it.

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knapplc said:
Taylor said in today's presser that Northwestern's defenders were watching our plays being signaled in from the sidelines and they figured out our plays by stealing our signs.

Rich Kaipust says:

Taylor Martinez said Monday that Northwestern did its homework last week, and it might have resulted in the Wildcats’ defense having a feel for what the Nebraska offense was going to do Saturday.

The NU quarterback said “they were looking at our sidelines to see what plays we were running” and “they maybe kind of caught on to what we were doing.”

“It was a lot of film study, I’d say,” Martinez said. “It’s Northwestern … smart school.”

Martinez got some laughs with that last comment, but said the Huskers might have to work on mixing up their signals going forward to combat it happening again.

In its no-huddle offense, Nebraska comes to the line of scrimmage, assesses the defense, then usually steps back and looks to a handful of people on the sideline signaling in the call. Only certain ones are “live” – relaying the play coming from offensive coordinator Tim Beck in the press box – while the others are decoys.

Martinez said he never noticed another opponent this season trying to figure it out.

“During the game, I kind of caught on that every time we would look over there, (they) were looking at me for the play or at the sidelines for the play,” Martinez said. “So during the game we kind of mixed up each signal.”
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He knew this and waited until after the game to bring it up. This is a lame excuse.

 
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