You’re got a vital third or fourth down you need to convert. I’ve hated the end zone fade route for so long that I needed a new pervasive coaching mistake to routinely rage out on. When I see teams line up out of the gun in short yardage now, I already know what’s about to transpire. I saw Kentucky do it in their upset bid against Georgia on Saturday and I nearly drove down to Athens to punch them in the cock. It’s only common courtesy to give him a break and let him walk all over you. Why not run across to the opposite sideline and ask Urban if he needs a fucking footrub and a hot towel while you’re at it? After all, he’s never been a well man. Yet what do I see time and time again? I see head coaches and offensive coordinators desperate to reinvent the wheel and running the least necessary-not to mention least effective-play imaginable. Never do the other team a fucking favor unless you’ve put money on them. When you move the QB back into the gun, you relieve the defense of that fear. Line up under center and the defense has to honor the sneak, or a handoff to your most talented back. You might think that’s tolerable, until you learn that the success rate increases by seven percent-no small amount-when those attempts come from under center.Īnd again, the sneak conversion rate is close to 90 percent. According to Pro Football Focus, they've converted on 50 of those attempts, for an average success rate of 65 percent. NFL teams have already called shotgun runs on third or fourth down and less than a yard to go 77 times this season. It should legal to throw produce at them from the stands.īut if you think the Dolphins were uniquely stupid to call for a shotgun formation in a vital short-yardage situation, you are sadly mistaken. Instead, they’ll come back to Miami where a crowd of 10,000 bored fans will watch them get trucked by the Falcons. The Jags needed all of five plays after that to get Matthew Wright in position to boot the winning field goal at the gun, kicking off an Urban Meyer redemption tour that absolutely no one wants.įor their sins, the Dolphins will now be one of four teams in league history to NOT receive a bye week after playing a London game. Instead, they put Tagovailoa in the gun, made him hand the ball off to Malcolm Brown, and watched Brown get stoned at his own 46. Did the Dolphins “brain"-trust note any of that before calling this play? They did not. And Tagovailoa isn’t exactly a statue he rushed for over seven yards per carry in the game. You already know that the QB sneak is the most effective short yardage play in football, with a success rate of nearly 90 percent. That’s Tua Tagovailoa lining up out of the shotgun on fourth and a fucking foot. Then they went to London and handed the Jags their first win in 21 games. They were able to mask this shittiness for a month and a half because they could credibly tell the world that they weren’t even the worst NFL team in the state of Florida. And buy Drew’s new book, The Night The Lights Went Out, through here. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season.
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