![]() The ball was on the Vikings' 34 - try a fair-catch kick! Sure it's a 76-yard field goal, which would be the longest ever. In another overtime game, with one second remaining in the fifth quarter, the Minnesota Vikings fair-caught a Green Bay Packers punt. That's not all he did to outsmart Denver. Winning the coin flip in overtime, Belichick took the wind. Sunday, Denver faced New England in cold, strong wind, and Belichick completely outsmarted Denver Broncos' backup coach Jack del Rio in wind management. In other NFL news, five years ago New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick completely outsmarted then-Buffalo Bills coach Dick Jauron in a late-season game played in cold, strong wind: Belichick made kickoff decisions based on getting in the wind in the fourth quarter, and tailored his team's tactics depending on wind direction. If the Lions make it 10 straight with the Packers playing a third-string quarterback, look out. In Thanksgiving news, enjoy your turkey! Say a prayer for the Detroit Lions, who have posted nine consecutive home losses on Thanksgiving Day. With each successive season, there seems more evidence Shanahan was just the guy who was standing there when Elway realized his potential, and otherwise is a mediocre coach. During the years Shanahan had John Elway in his prime, Shanahan was 54-18. Shanahan is highly hyped and very highly paid. Not only did the RG III trade denude Washington of draft selections for talent and depth, the 21 coaches aren't performing well either. In the modern game, winning a Super Bowl with a bottom-of-the-barrel passing attack is hard to imagine.Īs for Washington, the club under Griffin has seen streaks of 3-6, then 7-0, now 3-9. Two years ago, the Giants won the Super Bowl despite the league's last-ranked rushing attack. The pendulum had swung toward college-style quarterbacks on draft day - expect it to swing back the other way.Īs for San Francisco, the Niners are difficult to take seriously without a passing attack. On Sunday night, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady did vanilla, chocolate and strawberry to spectacular effect: Monday night, the flavor of the month was a bust for both teams. Now that defenses have adapted to the flavor of the month, good old vanilla, chocolate and strawberry passing is required. When the zone-read was a fresh idea last season, that was fine. Mostly, Griffin and Kaepernick looked like quarterbacks who can only run a college-style offense. The R*dsk*ns list 21 coaches shouldn't executive vice president/head coach (his actual title) Shanahan have one of them watch the clock? And Griffin made poor decisions, holding the ball too long and for the second week in a row launching a crazy, heave-ho interception. With 41 seconds remaining before intermission, a Washington runner went out of bounds at the San Francisco 18, then coach Mike Shanahan called timeout, with the clock already stopped. Griffin was hampered by poor blocking: several times left tackle Trent Williams, among the league's highest-paid linemen, barely slowed San Francisco's Aldon Smith. Zone-read quarterback Robert Griffin III - the prize of a king's-ransom trade - looked dreadful as he threw for only a 2.9 net yards-per-attempt average, which includes plays where he was sacked. ![]() Led by a highly drafted, magazine-cover, college-style quarterback, the Niners are last in the league in passing. In the game, Niners zone-read quarterback Colin Kaepernick struggled against one of the league's worst pass defenses, often sailing the ball where no receiver awaited. There's a reason they liked pro-style quarterbacks, who now may make a draft comeback. San Francisco at Washington on "Monday Night Football," the traditionalist scouts had their revenge. Insistence on quarterbacks from a pro-style offense seemed passé. The 2011 Alamo Bowl - 777 yards of offense by Baylor, 620 yards by the University of Washington - was thought the bellwether for the NFL. Suddenly running quarterbacks also had passing stats. About five years after that, the zone-read offense arrived. With the spread, suddenly quarterbacks didn't need a sophisticated understanding of defenses because everybody was open. ![]() ![]() NFL teams of the Lone Star State may be struggling, but Texas high school football remains the sport's leading indicator. Then about a decade ago, the spread offense arrived in Texas prep football. Quarterbacks who had been great runners in college offenses, such as Eric Crouch of Nebraska, were poison to NFL scouts. The theory was no one could learn to read pass coverages after arriving in the NFL: a player needed years of practice using NFL-style tactics. — - Once upon a time, NFL scouts wanted college quarterbacks who played in a pro-style offense.
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