Posted February 2, 2016 by Charlie Van Dyke in Meditations
By Mike Wade
Coaches study film. They come up with a game plan based on the other team’s strengths, weaknesses and tendencies. The days of the QB drawing up the play in the dirt inside the huddle has gone the way of the marching band halftime. You don’t see it anymore. If the offensive coordinator isn’t ensconced in the nosebleed section of the press box, he’s hiding his lips behind a huge poster board of options and scenarios on the field. He speaks into the play chart on the chance that someone on the opposing team can read lips. And that spy would then somehow be able to communicate your next play to the one defensive guy on the field with speakers in his helmet who will then position the other ten players on his side of the ball into the perfect alignment designed to stop the play for no gain. That’s a lotta’ moving parts! Because they don’t want to bruise the QB’s feelings by treating him like a robot there is something built into this scenario that is a true game changer. The Audible.
Our coaches know what their coaches like to do in a given situation, so based on those analytics a play is called. Except all of that gets thrown out the window if the high-priced field general sees something he doesn’t like and changes the play at the line of scrimmage. He has the free will to do that. When his choice doesn’t work you may feel like dragging him under a bus out to Boot Hill. But you cherish the elation experienced when it does work. Our lives would be so uninteresting without the gift of the Audible. And it is a gift. Consider how wonderful it is that when we’re presented with an opportunity we can choose to take the ball and run with it. Proverbs 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.
Coaches study film. They come up with a game plan based on the other team’s strengths, weaknesses and tendencies. The days of the QB drawing up the play in the dirt inside the huddle has gone the way of the marching band halftime. You don’t see it anymore. If the offensive coordinator isn’t ensconced in the nosebleed section of the press box, he’s hiding his lips behind a huge poster board of options and scenarios on the field. He speaks into the play chart on the chance that someone on the opposing team can read lips. And that spy would then somehow be able to communicate your next play to the one defensive guy on the field with speakers in his helmet who will then position the other ten players on his side of the ball into the perfect alignment designed to stop the play for no gain. That’s a lotta’ moving parts! Because they don’t want to bruise the QB’s feelings by treating him like a robot there is something built into this scenario that is a true game changer. The Audible.
Our coaches know what their coaches like to do in a given situation, so based on those analytics a play is called. Except all of that gets thrown out the window if the high-priced field general sees something he doesn’t like and changes the play at the line of scrimmage. He has the free will to do that. When his choice doesn’t work you may feel like dragging him under a bus out to Boot Hill. But you cherish the elation experienced when it does work. Our lives would be so uninteresting without the gift of the Audible. And it is a gift. Consider how wonderful it is that when we’re presented with an opportunity we can choose to take the ball and run with it. Proverbs 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.
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