daniels is overwhelming favorite
Raiders are vegas so someone notices them, nobody is paying attention to the jags.
Best explanation I’ve heard (though I don’t think this comes from the Lions) is that showing it forces the stronger teams to spend/waste time preparing for it. In this down-yardage-score context, with this offensive formation, all teams have options A, B, or C, but against Detroit, we have to prepare for D, E, and F, as well.
Well, I can see the logic in that, but if a play is good enough to make an opponent scared enough to prepare, then it’s probably better to unleash it on them when they are unaware.
There definitely are teams throwing in stupid shit in some games to make other teams waste time having to spend practice time on it
Though you go through the whole f’ing season in the playoffs and just presume little at least the last few games is gonna get used against you.
Outside of the obvious basics, ie, run up the middle isn’t exactly reinventing the wheel.
I was a pitcher in high school. Fastball, curve, change. One of my coaches taught me a knuckleball just so I could throw it once during the warmup on the mound before the first inning in order to get the other team to think about it.
No idea if it had any effect, but it was funny, at least.
EDIT: We also had a “shake-off sign” that the catcher would lay down every so often. Sometimes he’d flash it three, four times in a row just to make it look like I was going through a huge rolodex of pitches. I think it mainly served as entertainment just for the two of us.
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Should have taken it one step further. After multiple shake off signs, have him huff and call time and do a mound visit where you guys have an exaggerated argument about nothing
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Was there a hit the mascot sign? Once at a college game I saw a pitch hit the backstop about 20’ up. (Bob Horner may have played in that game. ASU clobbered BYU. It might be the last live baseball I ever watched.)
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The Lions have run enough trick plays this season that if they make the SB it could just be all re-used trick plays and good luck defense. I’d laugh my balls off.
I hope they break out something no one has ever seen in the Super Bowl like when Miami first clowned New England with the Wildcat.
The Lions running literally any play would qualify for this.
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If the game is Lions vs Chiefs, Lions should run The Annexation of Puerto Rico just to see if Travis is right (he says it wouldn’t work in the NFL b/c pros wouldn’t get tricked that badly)
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wildcat started earlier than that. professionally it’s credited to the 1998 Vikings who would’ve stolen it from somewhere. that Dolphins year however by far the best at it.
apparently the falcons that year ran a wildcat play on the vikings in that NFCCG.
according to wikipedia, Dolphins got it from the 06 panthers and arkansas in college, same OC in the NFL.
wildcat also changed canada football rules, they had a rule saying QB had to take the snap, they changed it because of that, hey why can’t we do that, good point, go ahead.
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That was a good day.
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well, when BB saw the wildcat again later that season
miami only got 21 rushing yards
Ben Johnson has 100 of these plays
What was the Worthy penalty for?
chiefs get that dpi on 3rd and 18 everytime.
Touchdown converted to an INT. Must be fun to be a chiefs fan
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Meh, it was a touchdown because they tackled the defender who would’ve had the runner at the line of scrimmage. And I lost a Warren TD on it, so it particularly annoyed me. But was the right call.
I dont know anything about football reffing. My hot take is that football is impossible to officiate well without constant tv help. It does seem that officials find those correct calls for the chiefs at a higher rate