Posted on 01/12/2015 10:44:35 AM PST by BenLurkin
But hey, at least they didn't get beaten by the big play. Hope they find a secondary in the off season. Why Flacco went for it all when the underneath was working, and there was plenty of time on the clock, is a mystery.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times, fire the Defensive Coordinator.
First off I hate the Patriots. That being said, if it was not illegal which apparently it is not, then it was brilliant.
So is a play action pass or a draw, deception, that is. The NFL announced that all rules were followed.
Don’t follow football much, but this sounds like a legal play that defenders weren’t equipped to handle.
That’s pretty much their problem. The whole point of most plays is to deceive the opposition about what you’re doing.
General Hooker probably thought, that Lee and Jackson were deceitful at Chancellorsville.
And, of course, they were.
They were declared, and visually indicated, and enough time was taken to announce over the loudspeaker... at least, according to an acquaintance who was at the game.
Except for the QB crashing the line on 3rd and goal from the one inch line, all of football is based on deception.
Even then, you might pull back and throw the ball to an open tight end. So even the “obvious” QB sneak may not be so.
Harbaugh’s team could be said to have outplayed the Patriots. However, Harbaugh was clearly out-coached. He cannot admit that.
It would be like using the IRS rules to pay the least amount of taxes possible.
It is the kind of thing you have to pull out when you find yourself down by 14 for the second time in the game and need something to start a final turnaround. Has a short shelf life because of the very nature of it, it won’t work again.
It was legal but I bet the league addresses it as it slows the game down when the refs have to announce it and give the other team time to substitute.
I too am not a Belichick fan. I learned to intensely dislike him when he couched my Cleveland Browns.
From the article: Harbaugh reiterated: “Nobody’s ever seen that before.”
That being said, I'm sure that the Army QB said the same thing in 1913 when Knute Rockne introduced the forward pass!
Would you please be so kind as to name a couple?
spiking with such enthusiasm after a one yard touchdown run...
whining to the officials that he wasn’t able to get up because a defender was trying not to step on him.
that’s a couple.
Nick Saban did this play against LSU this Year.
The only question is whether the refs are obligated to share the ineligible receivers with the other team and to the booth, and if there is a time allotted to let opponents respond. If not, Harbaugh has no beef. If they are supposed to be informed and allowed time before the snap, he has an argument. We’ve all heard the refs turn on the mic for years and announce if a lineman is eligible. Here, the ball was hiked moments after the declaration to the ref. Good tactic is allowed as it happened, and we’ll probably see it a whole bunch next year.
And the forward pass was an arcane, little used provision in the rule book before Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais beat the crap out of Army with it in 1913. I guess that was deceptive as well.
They just needed to keep the drive alive. Strategy should have been score with 6 seconds left. Even if they had scored on the interception, Brady would have had 1:39 on the clock to mount a counter drive.
Bad choice to try an endzone pass, whoever called the play.
the third for the “several” is when he dogged the ref for a flag and bumped him... he should have gotten a personal foul penalty then and there, but since he is a media darling, they ignored it.
Pingy.
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