You see innovations like the West Coast offense or the zone blitz, and you're immediately amazed at the genius. That's what separate guys like Bill Walsh and Dick LeBeau from, say, Mike Tice and Eric Mangini. And then there are plays that define a philosophy. For the Joe Gibbs Redskins it was the counter trey. For the Bill Belichick Patriots it's (at least for me) the variations of the screen pass. And for the Bethel University Royals it's the fake toss reverse alley-oop at the goal line. Or, as it's officially known in the playbook: Ace Rt Zoom 48 Granny QB.
Ridiculousness after the jump.
The headline to Spencer Hall's SBNation post pretty much says it all: "Trick Plays Sometimes Make No Sense, Work Fabulously."
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wow,so im guessing its a slow news day?
davejohn, your an idiot, they cover these crazy high school and college plays all the time, it has nothing to do with a slow news day. my favorite was the one when the high school team goes for a long the field goal, that ball is no where close to making it and a defense guy catches it and then threw the ball up in celebration of winning the game. but like most football players should know, that is a live ball and the kicking team picked the ball up and ran the ball in for the winning td
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Good suggestion, dude!
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so incredibly reckless and stupid that it actually worked because nobody in the world would ever come to expect such a foolish play
its genius. no one has ever done something this unconventional before. by faking the pitch and chucking it over over your head, you catch everyone off guard. even the safety didn't realize what was going on until the ball was halfway there. im sure it was practiced quite a bit, so the pass would be fairly accurate. this, like all innovative plays, is what gives them the advantage until the defense finds a way to stop it. very unconventional, but not stupid or foolish.
Awesome!
this play is a beast
nice
He was wide open anyway.
His defender never got in front of him and that will always give up a completion at 10 yards or less with a quick jump pass.
If white did not blitz on the right, the ball probably would have got picked off because red's receiver would have been in double coverage. Trick plays usually only work when the defense in perfect position. In general passing the ball without looking is bad. My favorite trick play is when the quarterback goes to talk to coach and the halfback gets the hike, cathcing the defense off guard. I think this play is too risky, I would never try it, but then again it worked right?
My high school ran this exact play (and it worked!) about 10 years ago. We used it on a 2-pt. conversion, if I recall. I don't know whether we were the first to use it, either. So this play is certainly not too original at this point in time, it's just that the folks at fanhouse hadn't seen it yet.
this play kept the defense honest
the was great but you can only use once then the other team would be looking for it
what would happen if the defender pick it off and ran for a td
"watch the player in the red circle"
It's called the Quarter Back.. c'mon AOL
I think they know he's called a quarterback BUT not everyone that reads aol news is going to know that....The idea of journalism is to get out an article that can get as many viewers as possible thus the writer is making sure everyone knows the person making the play
When I was in highschool I played wide receiver,it was defence time for our side and I saw the wildest play against US I ever saw.The other team went into the huddle like normal,the center went to the ball first before the rest of the team went to the line,the center hiked the ball into the huddle and the whole huddle slowly walked around the defence,our defence and into the endzone,touchdown.....it was called a waterbucket....worked great,nobody even ran.
In Hawaii, we had a similar play, the trick though is to have the center and the five or 6 players needed to make a valid play standing at the line of scrimage. Our team called it the muddle huddle. It worked a couple of times actually but it failed once because not enough men were on the line of scrimage and we were called for a penalty
You know this is BS because if only the center were on the line of scrimmage, there would have been a penalty. Pretty bad when people have to make up "remember whens" to feel good about themselves. At least spend a little time being creative and realistic if you are going to make something up.
this play has been around for many many years. too bad this is news worthy.
Reminds me of baseball play in our high school many years ago. Opposing team at bat. Man on first. Our pitcher walked over to talk to the first baseman, and slipped him the ball, returned to the mound. Runner moves off first, and is immediately tagged out by our first baseman with the ball.
That should have been called a balk by the umpire. The pitcher can't be on the mound without the ball