Who watched the Minny Game (1 Viewer)

[OU#1]

Can somebody that watched the game tell me a bit about these two plays? I'm quite curious...

Gadget plays? Or?

Perhaps Chili should put him under center?

TIA

 

[Steve in Minneapolis]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

 

[Bull Dozier]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

 

[Steve in Minneapolis]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

It was a 79 yard pass thrown by a WR.... It was phenomenal pass.

 

[w3junky]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

It was a 79 yard pass thrown by a WR.... It was phenomenal pass.

Agree. And the spiral was pretty tight.

 

[Ned]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

It was a 79 yard pass thrown by a WR.... It was phenomenal pass.

79yds in the air???

 

[snogger]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

It was a 79 yard pass thrown by a WR.... It was phenomenal pass.

79yds in the air???

Not only that, but it was into a 40mph wind and tipped at the line!!

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Rice was the best QB on the field yesterday.

 

[Jeff Haseley]

The video is up on NFL.com. I don't have the ability to post that specific play, but you can find it under Can't miss play - Shiancoe catch

 

[Bull Dozier]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

It was a 79 yard pass thrown by a WR.... It was phenomenal pass.

I guess when our expectations have been so thoroughly lowered by watching the Vikings all year, these kind of statements can be made.

 

[Kirby]

Both were Gadget plays, that were designed as passes...

His bomb to Shiancoe was a beautiful pass...

Childress addressed the two "gadget play" calls in a post-game interview. To paraphrase: "We've been working on several of these since training camp. You keep working on them until you think you have them perfected and you wait until have an opponent where you feel confident that you can successfully insert them into the game plan. Today we happened to have two situations where we thought they might work...and they did."

HTH

Except drastically underthrown. Shiancoe was 10-15 yards behind the safeties when Rice threw it, but had to wait for the ball. Otherwise it would have been an easy TD. Sure, it's rediculous to be so critical of a WR pass, but to say it was beautiful is a stretch as well.

It was a 79 yard pass thrown by a WR.... It was phenomenal pass.

79yds in the air???

Haha.. i think it was about 55 in the air... but it looked like he just tosses it.... the slow mo is pretty.http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d8044ce59

 

[Warhogs]

It was lobbed up there and a better pass would have been an easy TD. However, in this case it is certainly better to hang it with the TE that is wide open and complete it for a long play then to overthrow the TE and get nothing. It was a great play call with decent execution. The second pass was ugly, I think Rice had been hit as he threw a wobbler but it was scooped up nicely. Probably was not a great call on play #2 but it worked out.

 

[RUSF18]

It took a long time for the play to develop so Schiancoe was pretty far downfield by the time the ball was up in the air. For that ball not to have been "underthrown" it would have needed to be in the air for 70 yards -- a hell of an accomplishment for a true QB.