I like how the Cardinals' trick play ended up with Fitz double covered and it worked anyway because he's just that good. That's a microcosm of that entire franchise.
I think the lateral is going to be the final evolution of NFL offenses. It's very underutilized and forces defenses to commit to one option or the other. It'll be interesting to see which coaches start to incorporate them more as defenses continue to catch up to offensive innovation.
Yes! Someone who shares my thoughts, finally! The way I see it, the lateral is only a last-ditch, desperation play, when it could be so much better employed. But for that to work, football teams would have to adopt more rugby-like tactics and formations. Since you can pass the ball forward only once, they could devise ways to incorporate more flea-flickers and back passes into plays; that would have the side effect of making plays longer, in my view. Now, people with better judgment than me are welcome to point out the flaws in this, but I think American football would stand to be so much more interesting if it took a few pages out of rugby's playbook
@@JamesCarter-sf8vz They said the same thing about the forward pass sixty years ago. "Three things can happen when you pass and two of them are bad" - Woody Hayes
@@JamesCarter-sf8vz The whole game is two hours and 45 minutes of people standing around while the ball is dead (or the TV is in commercial breaks) and about 15 to 18 minutes of actual gameplay. The condensed highlights basically cover the most important moments where the ball is actually moving. Also, fumbles, on average, occur in 1 or 2 out of every 100 plays or so. Teams would have to adapt their formations and tactics as to employ more back passes without fumbling the ball.
The moon ball by Louie Aguiar at 10:34 was hilarious! I wonder if that was the plan. Cowher always had a gadget play ready for the Steelers back in the day, fun times.
On the last one, number 73 is the goat. Staying committed to the play the whole way through, still focused on protecting the QB even though no one is in the same area code. Linemen are the best.
English isn’t your strong point, is it?? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Tell us more, champ, about these people who have an issue with trick plays. This sounds interesting. Come on, tell us more!
@@peacefindersimply5001 “Almost no one cares about grammar on youtubby.” An unsubstantiated “fact” used by people who don’t know grammar. You stated an opinion and called it a fact. Nice try, champ. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
This is what I love about this channel. I'm expecting the same old clips that every other highlight channel uses in trick play compilations, but a good half of these plays are ones I've never seen before. Like how the heck do y'all have the time to go through the archives to pull all of these?
15:27 never forget that this was Foles' idea - on the preceding timeout he went to the sideline and immediately said "You want Philly Philly?" Such a gutsy call!
At 5:41 you can see the Patriots running the same play on them a couple years earlier. And then there was obviously the one they missed earlier in that game. So it was kind of like turning their own weapon against them.
Some of these plays were just INSANE! I'm glad you guys included the hook and ladder play from the Epic in Miami. A lot of these plays came down to great execution and timing. I've seen a fair share of gadget plays that backfire tremendously.
Hey, there was a *great* trick play recently. The Bears used an offensive lineman, who *never* touches the ball, ever, to run the ball in a crucial situation, on the one yard line. Worked like Flus thought it would!!!
Haha I see what you did there. If you think Flus is a knucklehead when it comes to trick plays, try to find a trick play that ever worked for Kevin O'Connell.
its always impressive that the kickers and punters have the speed to get down the field against the kind of athletes that are at all the other positions lol
SB did a great break down of Steve Bono's Touchdown at the end of this video. Lot of these plays especially the fake punts were situations where the teams seemed to have noticed that they were being given opportunities to pull them off and took them when the time was right. Seeing the punt holder see a wide open lane for a run through the middle is why Cleveland took that chance, it was so wide open in the middle that the invitation could not be ignored.
12:33 AJ Trapasso ran this same exact fake for a touchdown in the 2009 Hall of Fame game while wearing the Oilers throwback uniform. Never knew the play was an homage, that's awesome
15:09 I remember that play because when I looked up Garry Gilliam after the play because I had never heard of him, someone had already edited his Wikipedia article to say that he was a wide receiver because of that catch.
I sometimes wonder why they don't do these things more often. Loved the 'punch the football celebration', and the as 'I'm getting tackled flipping it to you". 7:10 look at the way that dude holds the ball; you can tell it's older haha. That "statue of Liberty" play looks super risky.
My favorite trick play is something I've never seen happen before or since. The 2007 AFC Divisional Game, Pats - Jaguars (I believe New England was undefeated all season, don't quote me on that, I'd sure be sad if I was off by a game). 3rd quarter, tie game, Pats at about the JAX 10. They run out of the shotgun the "Brady jumps up for the high snap and running back actually takes it in" classic two point call. Only Kevin Faulk never has the ball. Brady took the snap, jumped high and did the fake, everyone ran after Faulk as he dove into the line, Brady throws a dart to Wes Welker. They were so famous for running that fake snap that they reversed their own fake for a touchdown.
Reminds me of high school. Smallest school in a big conference, and we had no size. But we were fast (state 100 yard dash champ in the backfield), smart, and quick. Our coach devised a playbook with as I recall about 8-10 offensive formations, right or left, with the option of an unbalanced line with several of them. Same complexity on defense. And about 12-15 trick plays including Double reverse, flea flickers, sleeper plays, fumblerooski, Statue of Liberty, snaps to any one of the backs (sometimes through the quarterback’s legs), hook and ladder, silent plays, tackle eligible. Our coach always met with the referees before the games to tell them about our trick plays to prevent inadvertent whistles (although nearly every game we still would draw the refs into at least one). Lots of fun. No, we could never win all the games in that big conference (some schools were nearly 10 times our size), but we usually finished in the top half of the conference. I was the center. Everyone knew they had to make a read and adjustment every down with us, but we rarely called a huddle so it was hard for them to react. Our formations and plays all had nondescript names so the QB could audible nearly anything. And yes, our playbook was maybe 40 pages long and given out in early August. If you wanted to play you needed to memorize your position for every play, every set. Great memories.
Honestly why don’t teams have their punters fake more often around midfield and then throw moon balls? If it’s intercepted it’s the same as a good punt and pins the receiving team inside the 20 or 10, but if it’s caught it’s a huge play for the offense and puts them automatically in the red zone, and also gives an opportunity for a PI call.
I like how the Cardinals' trick play ended up with Fitz double covered and it worked anyway because he's just that good. That's a microcosm of that entire franchise.
probably the greatest WRs to never get a ring.
@@bradm268 Him and Moss.
that was the 2008 wild card game
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I think the lateral is going to be the final evolution of NFL offenses. It's very underutilized and forces defenses to commit to one option or the other. It'll be interesting to see which coaches start to incorporate them more as defenses continue to catch up to offensive innovation.
I feel like the Lions are ahead of the curve on this.
Yes! Someone who shares my thoughts, finally! The way I see it, the lateral is only a last-ditch, desperation play, when it could be so much better employed.
But for that to work, football teams would have to adopt more rugby-like tactics and formations. Since you can pass the ball forward only once, they could devise ways to incorporate more flea-flickers and back passes into plays; that would have the side effect of making plays longer, in my view.
Now, people with better judgment than me are welcome to point out the flaws in this, but I think American football would stand to be so much more interesting if it took a few pages out of rugby's playbook
Yeah, until you see the other 75% of the time when it results in a fumble. Watch the WHOLE game. Not just cherry picked highlights.
@@JamesCarter-sf8vz They said the same thing about the forward pass sixty years ago. "Three things can happen when you pass and two of them are bad" - Woody Hayes
@@JamesCarter-sf8vz The whole game is two hours and 45 minutes of people standing around while the ball is dead (or the TV is in commercial breaks) and about 15 to 18 minutes of actual gameplay. The condensed highlights basically cover the most important moments where the ball is actually moving.
Also, fumbles, on average, occur in 1 or 2 out of every 100 plays or so. Teams would have to adapt their formations and tactics as to employ more back passes without fumbling the ball.
17:03 73 just waiving him in and can't find anyone to block is hilarious.
😍😍
I love how he just turns around to watch his QB's back
RIP surprise onside non 4th quarter kick....
Ikr
Honestly they need to just get rid of the kickoff at this point. Nothing at all is better than what we have currently
The NFL looked at one of the most legendary plays in the history of football and said, “nah, we can’t let stuff like that happen anymore.”
@@easportssucks4347 go watch a channel called Isaac Punts. He made me like the new kickoff
@@nicholasharshbarger4454how often were they successful anyways? I’d rather have bigger normal oick returns
Finally that Steve Bono play in good quality is on RUclips!!!
Boy do I have a Jon Bois video for you
Ending with the loneliest bootleg ever.
He was the Omega Man.
Yes!
What even happen there
Secret Base…nice
That's Bono play at the end was just ridiculous. If you take away that run of 76 yards, his career stats were 124 attempts for 181 yards.
shoutout jon bois
The moon ball by Louie Aguiar at 10:34 was hilarious! I wonder if that was the plan. Cowher always had a gadget play ready for the Steelers back in the day, fun times.
I think it might’ve been an attempt to simulate a punt so the receiving team wouldn’t expect a player from the Chiefs to try and grab it.
On the last one, number 73 is the goat. Staying committed to the play the whole way through, still focused on protecting the QB even though no one is in the same area code. Linemen are the best.
Same area code? Perhaps you mean zip code. 🤡🤡🤡
There is a whole video about that single run.
The loneliest bootleg ever.
#13 and #73 are in Kansas City.
Everyone else is in Canada.
@@edwardburek1717 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
@@sludge8506 Area code covers a larger region than zip code
7:44 absolutely love all the linemen genuinely happy for one of their own
I love trick plays there's so much fun to watch and if somebody has an issue with it you need to have more fun in your life
English isn’t your strong point, is it?? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Tell us more, champ, about these people who have an issue with trick plays. This sounds interesting. Come on, tell us more!
@@sludge8506really? Almost no ones cares about grammar on RUclips..
@@peacefindersimply5001 “Almost no one cares about grammar on youtubby.”
An unsubstantiated “fact” used by people who don’t know grammar. You stated an opinion and called it a fact.
Nice try, champ. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
6:35 JOE FLACCO RUNNING PAST DEFENDERS AND CATCHING AN OVER THE SHOULDER 40 YARD PASS WHAT?!?
That Baltimore Flacco was a PROBLEM 😂
@@zachrichardson5581 wishing he could do that in 24 for the colts
0:58 But wait! Here comes the high end talent!
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@@ryanlester5206 This week...on Days Of Our Steelers
*Chris Boswell turns into Charlie Brown*
This is what I love about this channel. I'm expecting the same old clips that every other highlight channel uses in trick play compilations, but a good half of these plays are ones I've never seen before. Like how the heck do y'all have the time to go through the archives to pull all of these?
The production quality of this channel is elite
Jon bois loves this 16:55
0:51 that might be the greatest deep throw from a non-QB player.
Was about to write the same. That thing traveled 52 yards in the air, some actual QBs couldn't do this.
@einundsiebenziger5488 i actually googled if Sidney Rice ever played QB on his career.heck of a throw!
Shoutout Sidney Rice!
Not only that, the confidence to make that throw when he only had him beat by a few steps 🔥
Ya that was a massive heave... Throwing a football is really hard, very few people can do that
I think the Browns wish they still had Kyle Shanahan and McDaniels.
What a play to end it on, a steve Bono TD run
But it's not that tricky.
Tomlin in that thumbnail 😂.
15:27 never forget that this was Foles' idea - on the preceding timeout he went to the sideline and immediately said "You want Philly Philly?" Such a gutsy call!
Will never forget. Go Birds!
At 5:41 you can see the Patriots running the same play on them a couple years earlier. And then there was obviously the one they missed earlier in that game. So it was kind of like turning their own weapon against them.
@@seraphsword yeah, I’m pretty sure the reason Nick went for that play was because Tom dropped it earlier and Nick wanted to show him how it’s done
Some of these plays were just INSANE! I'm glad you guys included the hook and ladder play from the Epic in Miami. A lot of these plays came down to great execution and timing. I've seen a fair share of gadget plays that backfire tremendously.
A lot of these linemen need more credit here. Perfectly executed fake run blocks to take the linebackers out of the play
3:45 is one of the greatest catches I’ve ever seen
Hearing John Madden talk about the play really takes me back. There will never be days like that again.
11:45 That play screams We're gonna win lets have some fun!"
15 min in, the offense is making the ball disappear and pulling rabbit out of a helmet
The Bear’s 2 point conversion is my favorite play in this entire video. It’s so smooth and so satisfying to watch
Legend has it Steve Bono is still running for that TD
Hey, there was a *great* trick play recently. The Bears used an offensive lineman, who *never* touches the ball, ever, to run the ball in a crucial situation, on the one yard line. Worked like Flus thought it would!!!
Haha I see what you did there. If you think Flus is a knucklehead when it comes to trick plays, try to find a trick play that ever worked for Kevin O'Connell.
Laterals & End-Arounds! Any trick play can catch you napping!
Make one of the Lions this year
The trick plays would only work if it’s executed properly and you have to have guts to pull it off
I mean, pretty much any play you draw up only works if executed properly.
Dan Campbell is the master of it
that is how plays work, yes
Duh dummy
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its always impressive that the kickers and punters have the speed to get down the field against the kind of athletes that are at all the other positions lol
Man I miss Randle El on the steelers. He gave us another whole dimension with the trick plays. They were so fun and exciting back then.
13:12 they should call them the “Fins” on the scoreboard again 😂
At 2:55 you can see a young Kyle shanahan and mike McDaniel
Yup, and on a play that was called back due to penalty, at that, so why even bother including it as part of this compilation?
2:53 I’m new to NFL football, but…..is that Kyle Shanahan????
Yep, and that's Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel right behind him holding his arms up.
The Philly Special Is One Of My Favorites
The play at 3:37 is still one of the very best catches I’ve ever seen
Surprised McAfee's onside kick to himself wasn't on here.
That double throwback game in the beginning needs to happen more often. Blue jersey Squawks V St.Louis Lambs would be sick to see again.
If you can find that Ten vs. Buffalo play called by the Ten radio announcer it's incredible.
2:56 Well, well, well, didn't expect to see that 😅
16:35 "That look like a forward pass" even the announcer's say it's obvious
i feel like this video exists solely and entirely because an intern found broadcast footage of bono’s run
Sanu! Dude threw a TD before catching a single pass!
I was at that game where Randy Moss threw that TD vs Miami. Fun game. Gary Anderson won that one on a last second long FG.
Dan Connolly is the ultimate sleeper trick player
You should do Best Trick Plays That Didn't Happen
Time for a little bit of trickery.
what an unbelievable amount of swag out of that punter REGGIE ROBIE 12:38
Nobody talking about that Sydney Rice BOMB!!!!
That last play deserves a deep dive
SB did a great break down of Steve Bono's Touchdown at the end of this video.
Lot of these plays especially the fake punts were situations where the teams seemed to have noticed that they were being given opportunities to pull them off and took them when the time was right. Seeing the punt holder see a wide open lane for a run through the middle is why Cleveland took that chance, it was so wide open in the middle that the invitation could not be ignored.
QBs catching passes are fire
15:13 legend has it, that was the last successful trick play pulled off by the Vikings (1977).
2:39 that was pretty awesome
Where's Randy Moss's no-look lateral over his head to Mo William for the Vikings?
Very nice vid. I've never seen some of these, which is refreshing
Pat McAfee kicking the onside to himself should have been on here
If you think Joe Buck doesn’t have a emotion, what about the guy at 9:30?
Dude, sounds like he’s reading the label on a box of cereal 😂
Wow, that last play was pretty good.
I've never seen it but that shovel pass from the bears FG holder was NASTY
American football could learn a thing of two from rugby and utilise laterals. It’s such a simple thing
Music City Miracle was a forward pass
8:11 It was hilarious how he just handed it off to the kicker. I've never seen that before. 🙂
That Seahawks play against the Rams is straight out of Tecmo Super Bowl on the NES circa 1991
Great compilation 👍🏾
3:25 running a fake there when you up 24 is diabolical
12:33 AJ Trapasso ran this same exact fake for a touchdown in the 2009 Hall of Fame game while wearing the Oilers throwback uniform. Never knew the play was an homage, that's awesome
Love this channel
15:09 I remember that play because when I looked up Garry Gilliam after the play because I had never heard of him, someone had already edited his Wikipedia article to say that he was a wide receiver because of that catch.
Pat McAfee should have been in this video, but Troy Polamalu had to line up in the C gap.
Great clips
14:17 this was insane
I remember watching the Music City Miracle happen. Too bad it was followed by such a heartbreaking Super Bowl moment 😩
" and owens carrys the ball like a loaf of bread" these commentators kill me 😂😂
I sometimes wonder why they don't do these things more often. Loved the 'punch the football celebration', and the as 'I'm getting tackled flipping it to you". 7:10 look at the way that dude holds the ball; you can tell it's older haha. That "statue of Liberty" play looks super risky.
Not having the Miami Miracle play on here is a complete crime!
Never knew Flacco could run like THAT!?!? What??
That oilers punt fake was insane acting
My favorite trick play is something I've never seen happen before or since. The 2007 AFC Divisional Game, Pats - Jaguars (I believe New England was undefeated all season, don't quote me on that, I'd sure be sad if I was off by a game). 3rd quarter, tie game, Pats at about the JAX 10. They run out of the shotgun the "Brady jumps up for the high snap and running back actually takes it in" classic two point call. Only Kevin Faulk never has the ball. Brady took the snap, jumped high and did the fake, everyone ran after Faulk as he dove into the line, Brady throws a dart to Wes Welker.
They were so famous for running that fake snap that they reversed their own fake for a touchdown.
That catch is the single biggest moment of Daniel Jones’ career. 😂
Give ur life to God he gave his life for urs
2:53 that, ladies and gentleman, is Kyle Shannahan and Mike McDaniels. shows how long it takes to make it big in anything
Flaco and dolton used to be legendary
Fred Jackson to Lee Evans ❤
15:02 Romo: “Whoa, that looks familiar”
Edit: lmao, I just realized he’s even wearing number 9 too
R.I.P.: Ryan Wetnight, Robert Newhouse, Reggie Roby. Among others.
At this point let’s do just an upgraded army , navy , air force triple option offense , that would be fun to see in the nfl
Steve Bono TD, the most unlikely TD of all time.
Imagine owning Jason sanders in fantasy that year and seeing him get a receiving touchdown lmao
Crazy title
i love this game.
Reminds me of high school. Smallest school in a big conference, and we had no size. But we were fast (state 100 yard dash champ in the backfield), smart, and quick. Our coach devised a playbook with as I recall about 8-10 offensive formations, right or left, with the option of an unbalanced line with several of them. Same complexity on defense. And about 12-15 trick plays including Double reverse, flea flickers, sleeper plays, fumblerooski, Statue of Liberty, snaps to any one of the backs (sometimes through the quarterback’s legs), hook and ladder, silent plays, tackle eligible. Our coach always met with the referees before the games to tell them about our trick plays to prevent inadvertent whistles (although nearly every game we still would draw the refs into at least one). Lots of fun. No, we could never win all the games in that big conference (some schools were nearly 10 times our size), but we usually finished in the top half of the conference. I was the center. Everyone knew they had to make a read and adjustment every down with us, but we rarely called a huddle so it was hard for them to react. Our formations and plays all had nondescript names so the QB could audible nearly anything. And yes, our playbook was maybe 40 pages long and given out in early August. If you wanted to play you needed to memorize your position for every play, every set. Great memories.
Austin did an illegal fair catch on the Baily punt return
“Fooled the camera man” moments
Honestly why don’t teams have their punters fake more often around midfield and then throw moon balls? If it’s intercepted it’s the same as a good punt and pins the receiving team inside the 20 or 10, but if it’s caught it’s a huge play for the offense and puts them automatically in the red zone, and also gives an opportunity for a PI call.
Maybe the real trick plays was the friends we made along the way