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Posted: 2/5/2018 3:06 PM
in which QB Foles became a receiver and broke wide open for a touchdown in virtually the same play Ohio ran with Nathan Rourke against Akron...and the result was the same...
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Posted: 2/5/2018 5:20 PM
brucecuth wrote:expand_more
in which QB Foles became a receiver and broke wide open for a touchdown in virtually the same play Ohio ran with Nathan Rourke against Akron...and the result was the same...
You can bet every high school coach in America will start practicing that one. It was a thing of beauty.
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Posted: 2/5/2018 7:41 PM
Alan, according to the NY Times, at least one high school has already run the play "in recent years": Foles' old high school in TX, although it's not clear whether the Eagles picked it up there or somewhere else...
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Posted: 2/5/2018 8:49 PM

Peter King, in his MMQB, says it came from Philly's quality control coach Press Taylor who saw it used in a 2016 Week 17 game between Chicago and Minnesota.

Link: https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/02/05/super-bowl-52-eagles-patriots-peter-king-mmqb

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Reich told me the kernel of the idea originated from an industrious Eagles quality-control coach, Press Taylor. Said Reich: “Press has this, what we call this vault of trick plays. It's an immense vault, so every week we go into Press's vault looking for plays.” Taylor, it appears, found the play in a meaningless Week 17 game in 2016. At 1:10 this morning, The MMQB’s Kalyn Kahler found a play from the Chicago-Minnesota game that doubtless led to Target left bunch, Philly special. Bears running back Jeremy Langford took a direct snap from center, quarterback Matt Barkley lined up behind the right tackle, and wideout Cam Meredith circled back behind Langford and took a pitch from him. Barkley leaked out of the backfield into the end zone. No one covered him. At the 11-yard line, Meredith tossed the ball to Barkley, two yards deep in the end zone. Touchdown. Watch that play and keep it in mind. You’ll need it. “We’re fine with ideas coming from anywhere,” Reich said. “Doug loves ideas.”

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Posted: 2/5/2018 9:25 PM
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Posted: 2/5/2018 10:41 PM
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Posted: 2/6/2018 6:33 AM
Maybe I was watching a different game,but didn't the Pats run basically the same play earlier.
It just wasn't as close to the goal line and Brady couldn't catch it.
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Posted: 2/6/2018 11:47 AM
Brady, if I'm remembering it correctly, took the snap from the shot-gun before going out for the pass.
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Posted: 2/6/2018 12:41 PM
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Brady, if I'm remembering it correctly, took the snap from the shot-gun before going out for the pass.

There are no doubt a wide variety of variations of plays with the QB eligible. It seems to me that Ohio had a QB injured trying to catch a pass a few years ago? Sprague, maybe?
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Posted: 2/6/2018 1:37 PM
Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
in which QB Foles became a receiver and broke wide open for a touchdown in virtually the same play Ohio ran with Nathan Rourke against Akron...and the result was the same...
You can bet every high school coach in America will start practicing that one. It was a thing of beauty.

That trick play is as old as the hills, seen it dozens of times over the years in high school and college.
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Posted: 2/6/2018 2:35 PM
Running that type of play at the goal line makes more sense then the throw to Brady.

Foles makes the catch in the end zone.
No chance of a hit.

Brady makes the catch,close to the sideline or not.
He catches the ball,he can get clocked.
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Posted: 2/6/2018 3:59 PM
I seem to recall Brian McClure of BG pulling it on us at Peden in the late 1980s.
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Posted: 2/6/2018 6:01 PM
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I seem to recall Brian McClure of BG pulling it on us at Peden in the late 1980s.
Maybe Frank was watching on OSN?

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Posted: 2/6/2018 8:11 PM
Mclure had 1 reception for an 8 yard loss in his BGSUcks career--I don't think it was him.


This link (I hope I didn't violate some rule) has the 2001 Nebraska-Oklahoma game. THe play is at the 5:15 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEPik8l9ck&t=302s
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Posted: 2/7/2018 12:21 AM
Here are passing stats for wide receivers under Solich:
2005: Theo Jefferson 1-1 2 yards
2006: Wm Norwood 1-1 23 yards, 1 TD; Taylor Price 0-1
2007: Taylor Price 2-2 50 yards, 1 TD
2008: Taylor Price 0-1
2009: Taylor Price 1-1 29 yards, 1 TD; Lavon Brazill 2-3 54 yards, 1 TD
2010: Riley Dunlop 1-2 35 yards, 1 TD
2011: Phil Bates 4-5 142 yards, 2 TD
2012: Landon Smith 1-1 39 yards, 1 TD; Matt Waters 2-2 7 yards
2013: Landon Smith 0-1; Dovell 0-1
2014: none
2015: Cope 0-1
2016: none
2017: Cope 1-1 3 yards, 1 TD; Meyer 1-1 15 yards

I don't know if all of Bates passes in 2011 were from the WR position. The combined total is 17-25 for 399 yards and 9 TDs and no interceptions. That's a pass efficiency of 320.9. Note that it is much lower over the last five years, however, where they are only 2-5 for 18 yards and 1 TD. Even then that's a pass efficiency of 136.
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Posted: 2/7/2018 11:21 AM
brucecuth wrote:expand_more
in which QB Foles became a receiver and broke wide open for a touchdown in virtually the same play Ohio ran with Nathan Rourke against Akron...and the result was the same...
Play at Akron - https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/930613169617276929

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