NFL 2011

Lots of teams, including the Giants, use the no-huddle offense in certain situations. But nobody in the NFL this season deployed the no-huddle more often and more effectively than the Patriots. Given Brady?s success this season?not to mention the success of Peyton Manning?s no-huddle Colts in past years?I expect the no-huddle offense to continue its resurgence. It?s worth pondering, though, why NFL teams have been slow to react to something that seems intuitively to be so much better. Real-life huddles are not nearly as interesting as they are in sports movies, where players frequently debate, bicker, or deliver monologues, somehow within the strict confines of the play clock. Typically the only thing that?s said in the huddle is the play call itself. This is part of the problem: In the NFL, these calls are absurdly long. With only 11 players on a side, there is really no reason other than inertia for there to be lengthy, polysyllabic bits of code to convey each player's assignment. But if that?s how playbooks are written, then you really can't go no-huddle; it?s impossible to shout "Scatter-Two Bunch-Right-Zip-Fire 22 Z-In Right-273-H-Pivot-F Flat" to a bunch of people scattered across the width of the field.

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