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.
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?
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. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Nah, a better camera angle very clearly showed that the ball was beyond the 25 when released and behind the 25 when caught. Looks wrong from the live angle and the players' positioning. But it was legal
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
@@bradm268NFC Champions Rings
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
Finally that Steve Bono play in good quality is on UA-cam!!!
Boy do I have a Jon Bois video for you
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
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.
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
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
7:44 absolutely love all the linemen genuinely happy for one of their own
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
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
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 UA-cam..
@@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. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
0:58 But wait! Here comes the high end talent!
(cue Mighty Mouse singing HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY)
Another fellow Yinzer enjoyer
HIGH END TALENT
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@@ryanlester5206 This week...on Days Of Our Steelers
*Chris Boswell turns into Charlie Brown*
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.
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.
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
3:45 is one of the greatest catches I’ve ever seen
Tomlin in that thumbnail 😂.
11:45 That play screams We're gonna win lets have some fun!"
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?
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.
15 min in, the offense is making the ball disappear and pulling rabbit out of a helmet
Hearing John Madden talk about the play really takes me back. There will never be days like that again.
A lot of these linemen need more credit here. Perfectly executed fake run blocks to take the linebackers out of the play
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
Laterals & End-Arounds! Any trick play can catch you napping!
Legend has it Steve Bono is still running for that TD
Make one of the Lions this year
Your Video And UA-cam Channel Are Number #1 NFL Throwback
The Bear’s 2 point conversion is my favorite play in this entire video. It’s so smooth and so satisfying to watch
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.
13:12 they should call them the “Fins” on the scoreboard again 😂
i feel like this video exists solely and entirely because an intern found broadcast footage of bono’s run
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
The Philly Special Is One Of My Favorites
Surprised McAfee's onside kick to himself wasn't on here.
2:56 Well, well, well, didn't expect to see that 😅
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.
16:35 "That look like a forward pass" even the announcer's say it's obvious
2:39 that was pretty awesome
Pat McAfee kicking the onside to himself should have been on here
The play at 3:37 is still one of the very best catches I’ve ever seen
Love this channel
Great clips
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.
Sanu! Dude threw a TD before catching a single pass!
Great compilation 👍🏾
what an unbelievable amount of swag out of that punter REGGIE ROBIE 12:38
Nobody talking about that Sydney Rice BOMB!!!!
If you can find that Ten vs. Buffalo play called by the Ten radio announcer it's incredible.
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.
QBs catching passes are fire
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.
That Seahawks play against the Rams is straight out of Tecmo Super Bowl on the NES circa 1991
Where's Randy Moss's no-look lateral over his head to Mo William for the Vikings?
Music City Miracle was a forward pass
Very nice vid. I've never seen some of these, which is refreshing
15:13 legend has it, that was the last successful trick play pulled off by the Vikings (1977).
Dan Connolly is the ultimate sleeper trick player
14:17 this was insane
American football could learn a thing of two from rugby and utilise laterals. It’s such a simple thing
3:25 running a fake there when you up 24 is diabolical
You should do Best Trick Plays That Didn't Happen
Time for a little bit of trickery.
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 😂
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.
Wow, that last play was pretty good.
That last play deserves a deep dive
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.
I've never seen it but that shovel pass from the bears FG holder was NASTY
That catch is the single biggest moment of Daniel Jones’ career. 😂
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
" and owens carrys the ball like a loaf of bread" these commentators kill me 😂😂
8:11 It was hilarious how he just handed it off to the kicker. I've never seen that before. 🙂
the play at 9:47 was amazing
Never knew Flacco could run like THAT!?!? What??
Not having the Miami Miracle play on here is a complete crime!
I remember watching the Music City Miracle happen. Too bad it was followed by such a heartbreaking Super Bowl moment 😩
That oilers punt fake was insane acting
Give ur life to God he gave his life for urs
Fred Jackson to Lee Evans ❤
Steve Bono TD, the most unlikely TD of all time.
Pat McAfee should have been in this video, but Troy Polamalu had to line up in the C gap.
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.
Maybe the real trick plays was the friends we made along the way
R.I.P.: Ryan Wetnight, Robert Newhouse, Reggie Roby. Among others.
15:02 Romo: “Whoa, that looks familiar”
Edit: lmao, I just realized he’s even wearing number 9 too
2:53 that, ladies and gentleman, is Kyle Shannahan and Mike McDaniels. shows how long it takes to make it big in anything
I love how I can't tell if half of these are "trick plays" or mistakes that just went horribly right.
i love this game.
Imagine owning Jason sanders in fantasy that year and seeing him get a receiving touchdown lmao
Flaco and dolton used to be legendary
“Fooled the camera man” moments
the FIRST one ISN'T A trick play ... its called a LATERAL !!!!
What a joke not having any of the Lions plays from this year.
Well it does say "throwback"
"That looked like a forward pass...." because it was. "Music City Miracle?" Nah, here in Buffalo we call it "The Immaculate Deception."
Nah, a better camera angle very clearly showed that the ball was beyond the 25 when released and behind the 25 when caught. Looks wrong from the live angle and the players' positioning. But it was legal