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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 878576">LaFleur, as in most NFL offensive systems, sends in the play call and an alternate.  If the call is pass, the alternate is a run or vise versa.  The QB has the latitude to audible from run to pass or vice versa.  How do I know this?  Because Rodgers has mentioned it, commenting on such an audible on a particular play.  I've heard Joe Thomas (the future HOF OT, not the ex-Packer) discuss this on a podcast as a common approach.  This is one factor in why it takes awhile to get out of the huddle.At the more granular level, Sternberger commented on the "check with me" on his TD catch in the SF playoff game.  You see that in the tape.  Sternberger turns his head toward Rodgers, Rodgers is facing him, the route adjustment is made.  This stuff is built into the offense.It is actually kind of dumb to think a call is made in the huddle, the helmet speaker goes off with 15 seconds on the play clock, the offense lines up, and you run that play regardless of what the defense shows.  It's like committing to your next chess move before the other guy has made his.I'm not sure what all these sources other than Packers.com are thinking but you might want to consider whether it is overbaked if not outright false.Coming into this past season, LaFleur had 16 games experience calling plays.  And the system he came out of in LA is backsliding in their attempts to make Goff a robo-QB, probably because they have become predictable with the QB having less latitude to make needed adjustments without Goff having had the opportunity to learn it if they try to apply it.  Maybe LA has to do that because Goff is a dim bulb as far as reading defenses go.In short, if LaFluer doesn't want audibling, kind of foolish to begin with, then he wouldn't send in alternate plays and he'd strip audible nomenclature from the line calls.  He's smart enough and adaptable enough to not be so dumb.If that's not enough, why do you think LaFleur discusses how they need to speed up the process, get the play in quicker, and get out of the huddle quicker.  If you're playing robo-football, why would you care?  Just line up, snap the ball, run the play, why doncha, if that's the case.  Because it is not the case.  While we can appreciate LaFleur for his inventive designs, they reach their limit at the 15 second mark.</blockquote>

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