A thread showing examples of creative playcalling

Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » October 21st, 2019, 12:20 pm

This thread shows just a snippet of creative that are being called out there in college football plus some plays we ran last year. I just feel like we've seen hardly any creativity or misdirection from the offense this year. I really hope to see it going forward.

(The misdirection here is beautiful. It seems we get the defense all going one way and then the play where the defense is going.)

(Again, beautiful misdirection)

(4th down, game on the line. A perfect simple misdirection. This play ended up propelling Oregon to a big timewin).

(This is beautiful. We'd greatly benefit from some horizontal pump fakes and look offs by Love).

(Perfect use of misdirection)

(A short yardage play I really wish we'd use. I still think this style of play vs. Wake would've gotten us that needed 1st down to win the game).

(Some Misdirection & trickeration by Air Force)

(A beautiful trick play by SMU late in the 4th quarter that helped propel them to win. SMU remains undefeated after this win)

(This is such a great 4th down call and feels like something we never do. We simply run a read option up the middle. Plays like this won the game for BYU)

(An example of a trick play we never do. This play ended up winning the game for BYU.)

(What a gusty call by Florida on 3rd 1. We never see us run this type of stuff but it worked perfectly).

(Great trick play by Air Force)

(Misdirection)

(It's simple, but a handoff to the WR hitting the hole with speed threw the defense off a bit)

(I would love to see some sort of play like this with Thompkins)

Now here's some examples from last season's BYU game (just one game I looked at:)

(I mean come on, why aren't we running this with Thompkins this year? I thought this offense was supposed to look like last season's?)

(Have we seen a horizontal play fake with a pump fake and a vertical throw over the middle all year?)

Intermeddler · Post by **Intermeddler** » October 21st, 2019, 3:23 pm

Good stuff.

That Jaguars play was so so good. We did seem to do a lot of stuff up the seam with Raymond after some fakes wide or on delays that usually worked last year. Don't recall much, if any, of that this year.

Intermeddler · Post by **Intermeddler** » October 21st, 2019, 3:24 pm

I also love that Oregon play. Dallas did a variation of that last night where he took a pitch and scored.

AggieUprising50 · Post by **AggieUprising50** » October 21st, 2019, 3:33 pm

I completely agree with the reverse play. We ran that really well last year, and it would be an excellent way to get the ball in Thompkins hands more.

Not to mention it would deter defenses from over pursuing in our run game.

FloridaAggie13 · Post by **FloridaAggie13** » October 21st, 2019, 3:56 pm

We can be creative without calling "trick plays". The reverses, fake to the flat/throw over the middle, etc., are great misdirection plays that also serve to force the defense into hesitating a half step on standard running plays because the threat of the offense using the entire field is at play.

We do absolutely none of that at all.

WAAggie · Post by **WAAggie** » October 21st, 2019, 4:34 pm

Ironic BSU loses due to the Zoobs trickeration.

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GUS · Post by **GUS** » October 21st, 2019, 4:53 pm

Funny thing is that the zoobie fans were complaining about their poor play calling before the bsu game.

oleblu111 · Post by **oleblu111** » October 21st, 2019, 5:16 pm

WAAggie wrote: ↑
October 21st, 2019, 4:34 pm
Ironic BSU loses due to the Zoobs trickeration.

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I do not watch BYU football so did they beat BSU because of trick play's ? Or were other things involved ?

WAAggie · Post by **WAAggie** » October 21st, 2019, 5:23 pm

See above!

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oleblu111 · Post by **oleblu111** » October 21st, 2019, 5:40 pm

WAAggie wrote: ↑
October 21st, 2019, 5:23 pm
See above!

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I did not see those as trick play's. they were good play's, throwing to a big receiver over the middle, and the option sweep IMHO are not trick play's. The flea flicker would qualify as one

ltcpilot · Post by **ltcpilot** » October 21st, 2019, 5:52 pm

Trick play by AF defense goes for TD vs Hawaii

https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status ... 32096?s=19

WAAggie · Post by **WAAggie** » October 21st, 2019, 5:59 pm

Ok. One truly trick that won the game and 1 that hardly ever is called on 4th and 1. Seemed tricky to me to run that. Both Boise and I were tricked.

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JonnyCienPesos · Post by **JonnyCienPesos** » October 21st, 2019, 6:01 pm

Now show all of the trick plays that fail.

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Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » October 21st, 2019, 6:06 pm

JonnyCienPesos wrote: ↑
October 21st, 2019, 6:01 pm
Now show all of the trick plays that fail.

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Did you even watch the linked clips? It’s way more so about creativity and misdirection than “trick plays”. It’s about mixing it up on offense.

Sure, if it’s running like a well oiled machine change nothing. But our offense hasn’t been.

The Amish · Post by **The Amish** » October 21st, 2019, 6:35 pm

JonnyCienPesos wrote: ↑
October 21st, 2019, 6:01 pm
Now show all of the trick plays that fail.

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Yeah these aren't trick plays

JonnyCienPesos · Post by **JonnyCienPesos** » October 21st, 2019, 6:39 pm

LOL. Teach me the difference between a trick play and a misdirection play Mr football wizard.

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brian5562 · Post by **brian5562** » October 21st, 2019, 6:41 pm

I liked byu’s Pass on 4th and short much better last year that went for a td. Tipa’s run after catch really made the exceptional

Chatman · Post by **Chatman** » October 21st, 2019, 6:48 pm

I think a few plays like this would loosen things up for the offense. I was thinking the same thing. Anyone else wonder why an experienced offensive coordinator like Sanford is play calling so vanilla?

brian5562 · Post by **brian5562** » October 21st, 2019, 6:51 pm

The vanilla plays set up the creative stuff. If the offense was more effective on 1st and 2nd down you would see more effective RPO on 3rd down

Post by **Aglicious** » October 21st, 2019, 6:55 pm

another example of misdirection I would like to see.

Elkaggie · Post by **Elkaggie** » October 21st, 2019, 7:10 pm

I hope our coaching staff reads this haha

sdiggety · Post by **sdiggety** » October 21st, 2019, 8:32 pm

We seem to have this identity as a QB option team where Love is always reading defenders to decide if he should run with it... he is a pocket passer not chuckie keaton... time for a new scheme with some trickery or creativity that defenders don't have nailed down so easily. Every time he takes off I panick that he will get up limping. Trick plays are the great equalizer. Really the only way to be able to beat anybody as an underdog.

YoungBloodAggie · Post by **YoungBloodAggie** » October 21st, 2019, 8:35 pm

This reminds me of the joke where an old man considers play action passes to be trick plays that dishonor the sport.

Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » October 28th, 2019, 10:52 am

Here's some more great examples of what we're NOT doing. And these aren't "trick" plays. This is solid misdirection and creativity in an offense. One could say Air Force does it every single play.

Aggie84025 · Post by **Aggie84025** » October 28th, 2019, 12:04 pm

Last year against AF we ran I don't even know the name of it, but what I would call a delayed tight end screen to raymond who took it to the house. Beautifully executed. Would love to see something similar this year.

AggieUprising50 · Post by **AggieUprising50** » October 28th, 2019, 12:13 pm

Aggie84025 wrote: ↑
October 28th, 2019, 12:04 pm
Last year against AF we ran I don't even know the name of it, but what I would call a delayed tight end screen to raymond who took it to the house. Beautifully executed. Would love to see something similar this year.

I wish we ran more plays like this, but part of me feels that if we can't even execute our bread and butter, how are we going to run trick plays successfully.

I don't know if it's the chicken or the egg.

Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » January 4th, 2020, 3:10 pm

The Bills just ran a pretty awesome play to score a TD on their first drive of the playoffs.

An NFL team can do it in the playoffs but we wouldn’t even implement the slightest trickery into the offense?

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