Stinkin Ref
IBL Representative
As I watched the game last night and many others throughout the years, I have wondered why teams don't try to mix things up a little more?
Mostly referring to flea flickers or half back option passes.
I know the company lines of "risky" and "asking players to do something they do not normally do" and "the more you exchange the ball the more you can turn it over".......but......
many of them really seem to work......you will occassionally see one that backfires.....like a WR throwing a ball on a trick play that even you and I could easily see he should have never thrown and just tucked it away and took the loss or whatever......and I am not a big fan of the double reverses, etc with the speed of defensive lineman these days and what not....
but hardly do you see a team run a flea flicker twice in a game.....I just think if you make the defense think that you may run that trick play more then once a game....it would go a long way in keeping the safeties back and open up space in that second line of defense past the line of scrimmage.......if every time you hand off to the RB up the middle, that safety or safties think you could end up throwing the ball....I think they would have to not be able to attack the line of scrimmage so hard....
and the half back pass that LT runs so well.....show that look a little more.....he always has the option to tuck it away and get what he can on the ground, or thow it out of bounds....
I just think more teams could use these plays and I think even if they aren't always successful.....the mere threat that you may do it, would be worth some yards here and there for your running game....a flea flicker is not that difficult to execute when you are dealing with professional athletes who have time to work on these things....
Mostly referring to flea flickers or half back option passes.
I know the company lines of "risky" and "asking players to do something they do not normally do" and "the more you exchange the ball the more you can turn it over".......but......
many of them really seem to work......you will occassionally see one that backfires.....like a WR throwing a ball on a trick play that even you and I could easily see he should have never thrown and just tucked it away and took the loss or whatever......and I am not a big fan of the double reverses, etc with the speed of defensive lineman these days and what not....
but hardly do you see a team run a flea flicker twice in a game.....I just think if you make the defense think that you may run that trick play more then once a game....it would go a long way in keeping the safeties back and open up space in that second line of defense past the line of scrimmage.......if every time you hand off to the RB up the middle, that safety or safties think you could end up throwing the ball....I think they would have to not be able to attack the line of scrimmage so hard....
and the half back pass that LT runs so well.....show that look a little more.....he always has the option to tuck it away and get what he can on the ground, or thow it out of bounds....
I just think more teams could use these plays and I think even if they aren't always successful.....the mere threat that you may do it, would be worth some yards here and there for your running game....a flea flicker is not that difficult to execute when you are dealing with professional athletes who have time to work on these things....
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