DENVER – That Pete Carroll had it as a barb bar for Russell Wilson or a bouquet for Geno Smith, Seattle Seahawks coach made a hot topic in the NFL during a season upside down which has shaken the threesome long -standing order.
Carroll spoke of the surprising success of the Seahawks in 2022 after leaving Wilson when he mentioned Smith’s desire to wear a bracelet to help facilitate the game call from Seattle.
“If you notice, Geno leaves the bracelet, and it’s great help,” Carroll told Seattle Sports 710 at the beginning of the month. “He smoothed things, has accelerated things. And that is also one of them. We have never done that before. There was resistance to that. So we did not do that before.”
Wilson retorted with hers subtle excavationRecalling that he “won many games there without a wrist. And I did not know that winning or losing importance if you wore the bracelet or not.”
By coincidence, Wilson carried a bracelet for the first time with the broncos in a victory on the jaguars in London two days before the comments of Carroll, and he has used it from games and training since broncos have been trying to relaunch a spraying offense.
He even worn it on the podium on Wednesday.
“Yeah, I guess I rock this bracelet here,” said Wilson with a little laugh.
All weekend, about two-thirds of the NFL quarters swing in the bracelets. Tom Brady has used a whole career. But some QB and coaches prefer memorization skills for their more complex pieces.
The bands that hug the wrist and the forearm launched from the quarter-arrière contain dozens of parts with numbers or corresponding codes. They are often as much an advantage for the game game as the QB, because it can simply call a simple number rather than the whole game sequence with all its protections, checks and other shades.
“As a game designer, you sometimes want to become a little creative and these things can become a little verbose,” said Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett.
Calling a number and not the whole game sequence saves a few ticks before the quarter at the quarter stops with 15 seconds to play on the game clock. The QB can then relay the game and break the group faster, goes on the melee line with a few additional seconds to study the defense for any necessary adjustment.
Hackett said that particularly useful bracelets on the road and are particularly useful for increasingly complex game calls for the game.
“This is how offenses have progressed,” said Hackett. “… We become more elaborate with our game conceptions.”
Not all games on the coaches’ call sheets are not listed on the quarter bracelets. They are often limited to these complex calls or red zone games which are installed later in the week, which means that players had less time to practice them.
But the bracelets are not for everyone.
Some QB, such as Ryan Tannehill of the Titans, tried them but do not carry them all the time like Brady.
“Last year, when we went to Seattle, I brought a” Din to Lumen Field, said Tannehill. “Not too many times. I like to be able to hear the call and visualize it in my head as you go. It simply helps me build the image of what is happening. When I hear it and I have to build the image of the room in my head, it helps me to communicate with my guys as opposed to reading a line on a bracelet.”
Vikings QB Kirk Cousins generally does not wear a bracelet, and that has something to do with the coach of Rams Sean Mcvay, who was the offensive coordinator of cousins in Washington of 2014-2016.
Cousins remembers having said to Mcvay: “These pieces are long and I could use a bracelet.”
“Sean said: ‘I do not watch the call sheet to call the game to see what the bracelet number is. I just call the game of my head’ ‘, said cousins.” So he said: “We cannot do that because I should go find the game and give you the number.” I learned with Sean that I will just have to memorize these pieces and I don’t have the luxury of a bracelet. “”
“There are so many different ways to do it and I think there are positive points and negatives in all different ways,” said Cousins. “There are times when I like to have a lot of words because you can better paint the image, but there are other times when you call two to three pieces and it can be a lot. With a movement, a change, an alert and you have the game clock, so there is a lot of things.”
Cousins said that he had recovered a tour of the Nick Mullens backup when he digested the new Vikings attack this summer.
“I was really struggling at the end of August and early September to really arrive at a place where I could spit the games with a total property,” said Cousins. He recalled that Mullens had said to him: “I just record the delicate pieces on my phone and instead of listening to music or radio on the reader towards and from work, I will just listen to the game calls.”
“I started doing this and my records are a little more boring,” said Cousins, “but I find myself going home in the garage and I feel a little better in the match plan and my order of the match plan.”
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The football writers AP Pro Dave Campbell in Minneapolis and Teresa Walker in Nashville and the sports writer AP Larry Lage in Detroit contributed to this report.
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