Which button is this? Three Panthers coaches learn what it's like to call a game

[Carolina Panthers]

Brad Idzik, Jonathan Cooley, and Pete Hansen got the opportunity to call plays during the preseason, on the job training that brought ups, downs, and more buttons than they were used to.

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[Donald LaFell]

I thought they meant being an announcer heheh 

[rayzor]

It could be interesting to let them have moments throughout the season where play calling is handed off to someone else to give them experience and to throw off the competition.

You get used to someone's methods or play calling and think it's predictable and then someone else starts calling and they get thrown off completely because someone else is calling it.

[trucpfan]

19 minutes ago, rayzor said:

It could be interesting to let them have moments throughout the season where play calling is handed off to someone else to give them experience and to throw off the competition.

You get used to someone's methods or play calling and think it's predictable and then someone else starts calling and they get thrown off completely because someone else is calling it.

That’s an interesting idea but I don’t think that ever happens. It’s more about giving guys a chance to gain experience at a time when coaching isn’t exactly judged you know what I mean. Sean Mcvay does this and I’ve seen Mike McDaniel do this last preseason during the regular season way too much at stake with only 17 weeks to produce high quality results. Our last coach didn’t even make it 12 games lol he wishes he had a chance to have other people calling plays because what he assembled was pure asinine. But realistically in season, that’s a crazy ass idea to leave your results up to someone who’s just trying to learn the nuances of calling and running a offense or defense seems like a bad idea.

[lightsout]

It's wise in the event that you're ever in a rut. Say the offense is stagnant, you're in the late part of the third quarter, coach might say "fug it, let somebody else call this drive" and boom it works. Doesn't mean anybody gets demoted or promoted or anything, but it could lead to a fresh perspective and new plays that maybe you weren't considering that somebody else sees.