Who cares. Jughead is always fucking around any way to get a petty edge, get someone to jump offside, catch the team w 12 men on the field or any other weasily way to try and win instead of just playing the game on the field w out fucking about. QBs like him make waving his arms around like an idiot w all his WRs make you sick of the new pass heavy offenses too.
I also meant to mention that Omaha is really not a secret call to anyone on the field. Everyone knows the ball is being snapped on the next noise uttered. Players on both sides of the ball know what is coming. The reason they still do it is because the qb knows the play clock is winding down and needs the ball snapped when he calls for it.
Did some research. Omaha is not a snap count, if it were a snap count on one SD would have picked it up after the 10th call. They were offsides a lot due to the forehead QB. What it does is flip the play called to the opposite side of the field. So if the play was originally designed to go right and based on pure defensive numbers or defensive formation they will turn the numbers to their favor and run the same play called but to the opposite side of the field. O in Omaha = Opposite. If you hear for example Sally, the L means left as in ( left or right) tiger would mean right. They will call names with an r or l. The defense still has no clue whether pass or run so must play heads up and can't cheat.
in college i heard audibles from some future NFL QB's who became superstars. my QB played in the NFL for 10 yrs. there is no way to tell what certain calls mean. you can take any word and do anything you want with it. it can be a nothing decoy or mean something specific to that team. if it is repeated over and over, and you spend countless hours of film study and see no pattern, it's just a word. no team would abuse a word if someone could figure it out or former players could tell people what is is. defenses are capable of figuring out a word if it is repeated over and over which leads the defense to believe it is only a word used as a decoy.
I wonder if he uses something like an indicator to activate the call? In baseball the coaches would use an indicator to activate the sign. That way we could always use the same signs for a bunt or steal, but the sign would not be active until the indicator sign was given first. So Manning could bark Omaha until he was blue in the face, but it would not mean anything until he gave the indicator word first. They could also change the indicator every half or even quarter if they thought somebody was catching on.
Jim Rome asked everybody in football what "Omaha" (sometimes he uses double "Omaha's" too) means and they said they do not know. What I do know is how impossible it is for defenses to get a read on it. Manning draws so many offsides calls…mostly neutral zone infractions which is almost aways attributed to the QB.
"I know a lot of people ask what Omaha means," Manning said. "Omaha is a run play, but it could be a pass play or a play-action pass depending on a couple things: when, which way we're going, the quarter and the jerseys that we're wearing. So it varies, really, play to play. So, that's -- there's your answer to that one."
Probably a hefty fine from the NFL, but that would be pretty funny and he can afford it.
