Is This Trick Play Really By Design?
I don’t care what that announcer says, I absolutely refuse to believe this play was by design. I mean a football isn’t round. This isn’t like a basketball bounce pass. That thing can go anywhere and then it’s a fumble. So this just had to be a bad pass by the QB and a great play by the WR right? And to be honest I don’t even really know what the trick is here? To get defenses to think it’s a bad backwards pass? Then it would just be a fumble and the defense should be all over it anyway. I mean I see defenses scooping up forward passes all the time and trying to run with it so nevermind backwards passes. This just seem way too risky for me to believe this play was designed to work like this.
Vote 1 for this was by design and 10 for a fluke
(1,187 votes, average: 5.11 out of 10)
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You could tell it wasn’t on purpose by the reaction of the first receiver. He thought it was a dead ball due to an incompletion. They just yelled at him to throw it, so he did!
that’s a trick play in that it’s a designed WR pass but the bounce is just a shitty throw
what jackass of a coach would risk a weird bounce and it going for 6 the other way throwing it into the ground on purpose?
i dunno if these guys are running it as a trick play, but on my highschool team we put it in as one. if the corner is playing way off, it gives the receiver time to act like the play is dead, then huck it deep… ours didnt work so nicely
also no whistle that CB should have to walk home for not drilling the shit out of that WR
I have seen the bounce pass by design, so it is just a trick play. Supposed to fool the other team it is an incompletion so they don’t tackle the kid with the ball. But of course, always play to the whistle.
it is for sure a trick play, i ran it in high school. the quarterback passes it backwards (a lateral) and on the ground, which is a fumble, and the D thinks it was a incomplete pass
its a legit trick play. its supposed to trick the defense into thinking its a dead forward pass. then you make the throw. doesn’t always work out. this did
I’m with Nathan: “Did ya hear a whistle?” No, “then hit that motherfucker so hard his grand kids feel the pain”
Gotta drill it into these kids that you play hard till you hear a whistle & if your gonna hit someone hit’em like he’s been banging your girl.
Definitely a trick play… pretty shitty one though, even though it worked here. A lot of things can go wrong.
it is possible to bounce a football the way you want to if you throw it right.. looks just like a bounce pass in basketball.. yes it is difficult but once you learn how to do it, its pretty easy to do it consistently..
also it was definitely designed because the z was running a 9 (a go route) and wouldn’t have just been sitting out there after the play was over like he did..
notice how he takes off after faking out the safety yet before the slot even lifted the ball up to throw.. designed play right there
the play is by design.. solid trick play.. QB throwback… backwards passes are great because the defense cant really tell if it was foward or backwards or on purpose or an accident… if you have turf or really short cut grass you can do it whenever.. my team ran it for a touchdown because the defense stopped because the ball hit the ground
Wait, you’ve never seen the old clips of how Wisconsin did this bounce pass for at least a decade (the initial pass, not the fake). It’s an old school classic. Of course it’s on purpose.
play was run against everett by cambridge, worked pretty good. the receiver is josh adams….now plays for unc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwLvq5cosGc