SNF Indy v NE

[grampahol]

Anyone watch the abortion play just a moment ago? One guy on the offensive line and one playing qb with all 9 others lined up wide to the right ... Jeeez Louise .. Is Indy once again playing for the first pick of the draft on one play? WTF?

[KenAndersonsCoffee]

Even the HC was confused as to why that was snapped. Was this some sort of Jim Irsay cocaine-fueled ploy that overrode the normal game plan?

[grampahol]

Cocaine...had to be the coke. LOL

[Rattler]

Hands down the dumbest play design in the history of the game.

[Big Boss]

I'm still laughing. I have never seen anything like that in my life.

[treee]

"Illegal formation. The whole right side of the line was not on the line of scrimmage....... on the offense"

[GreenCornBengal]

That was a nightmare.

[Ned Ludd]

I wonder what name they give to that play?

I can offer some suggestions...

[KenAndersonsCoffee]

(10-19-2015, 05:48 AM)Ned Ludd Wrote: I wonder what name they give to that play?

I can offer some suggestions...

"Pagano's Resignation Letter" is my offering.

[Se ky bengal]

(10-19-2015, 12:08 AM)KenAndersonsCoffee Wrote: Even the HC was confused as to why that was snapped.  Was this some sort of Jim Irsay cocaine-fueled ploy that overrode the normal game plan?

[grampahol]

Understatement of the century

"The whole idea there was on fourth-and-3 or less, we shift to an alignment to where we could catch them misaligned," Pagano said. "They tried to sub some people in. Catch them with more men on the field -- 12 men on the field. And if you get a certain look, you have three (or) two yards to make a play.

"We shifted over and I didn't do a good enough job coaching it during the week. Alignment wise, we weren't lined up correctly and we had a communication breakdown between the quarterback and snapper. That's on me."

The plan: Hope the entire defense has a stroke at the same time right as the ball is snapped .. Hey, it could happen .. It's not likely, but it could happen.

[West Union KennyG]

Pat McAfee provides best explanation yet of fake punt fiasco

Posted by Mike Florio on October 20, 2015, 2:18 PM EDT
Pat McAfee
AP
Unfortunately, Colts coach Chuck Pagano is done talking about the fake punt fiasco that marred his team’s Sunday night game against the Patriots. Fortunately, Colts punter Pat McAfee isn’t.

Appearing on The Bob and Tom Show, McAfee offered the best explanation yet regarding the design of the play, the intended outcome, and the reason for the miscommunication that blew the whole thing up.

“The point of the play is a deception play,” McAfee said, via Colts.com. “So, you’re trying to manipulate the [opponent] into thinking they have to sub their defense back on. We are sprinting to the sideline in hopes to make the other team think we are subbing our offense back onto the field. So, when they think the offense is coming back on the field, your hope is that they think their defense has to come back on the field. . . . As soon as their defense comes back on the field, we snap it, steal five yards, and we get a first down. So there’s the intention of it. That’s the thought. . . .”

That was the thought, but there was a problem in the execution, due to an injury.

“The gunner who became the center all week was [safety] Clayton Geathers,” McAfee said. “Clayton Geathers gets injured in the second quarter. Insert Griff Whalen who had never done it before. So Griff Whalen is now the new center in a play he’s never practiced before.”

To make things worse, Whalen didn’t know that a wrinkle had been added to the play — an effort to draw the Patriots offside if they didn’t fall for the 12-man banana in he tailpipe.

“Last week [in practice], Griff is at the other end catching my punts,” McAfee said. “We added something to try and draw them offsides if they don’t do their substitution. Griff never got the heads up this was happening, because it’s not in the playbook. Stanford guy, reads the playbook, knows everything he has to do, but if he’s not there for an audible that’s added, he can’t know. . . .

“Griff has no idea we’re trying to draw the guy offsides because in the play it says if we get under center, snap it. So Colt Anderson is trying to draw a guy offsides to pick up an easy five yards. If not, we just don’t snap it. We take a delay of game.

“Griff goes, ‘His hands aren’t supposed to be on my ass. If I feel him right now, I’m supposed to snap it.’ So this is a 100 percent miscommunication. It’s literally a miscommunication.”

But a “miscommunication” implies an effort to communicate that somehow failed. In this case, the more accurate description would be a non-communication, because no one bothered to tell the replacement gunner/center that he shouldn’t snap the ball when he feels Anderson’s hands on his ass.

And from Whalen’s perspective, he did exactly what he had been told to do. He snapped the ball when he felt Anderson’s hands on Whalen’s ass. So of all the guys to blame, Whalen deserve the least of it. Actually, he deserves none of it.

McAfee separately confirmed to PFT that the plan was never to actually snap the ball, unless the Patriots were caught with 12 men on the field. I also asked him why the play proceeded after the Geathers injury forced a guy who was unprepared to run the play into one of its most important roles.

“We proceeded with it because Griff Whalen is highly trusted on our team,” McAfee told PFT. “He knows the whole playbook, [he] just wasn’t a part of the last-second addition of the ‘try and get them to jump offsides if we don’t catch them attempting to sub.'”

But that’s arguably all the more reason to not use the play at all. And McAfee’s candor, which has been trumpeted by the team’s website, arguably makes a bad situation worse for the Colts.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(10-19-2015, 12:08 AM)KenAndersonsCoffee Wrote: Even the HC was confused as to why that was snapped.  Was this some sort of Jim Irsay cocaine-fueled ploy that overrode the normal game plan?

[XenoMorph]

(10-19-2015, 12:06 AM)grampahol Wrote: Anyone watch the abortion play just a moment ago? One guy on the offensive line and one playing qb with all 9 others lined up wide to the right ... Jeeez Louise .. Is Indy once again playing for the first pick of the draft on one play? WTF?

desgined to get matchups... or offsides... it failed but i dont think you ever snap that ball...

Ive seen the bengals come out in formations close to that... But they generally reset before snapping into a more traditional formation.