Do you have a favorite football play?

like a sack fumble, a QB getting a ball off right before he gets killed but it leads to an interception, a huge hit, etc.

but maybe because as soon as the RB flips it to the QB you immediately scan downfield to see if anyone was fooled.

Parcells called one a season back in the day.

JPP has had one...JJ Watts does it....remember George Martin doing it against Denver....and I think Strahan may be on the list too.

When they can snatch the ball out of the air so close to its release point to me it is the most difficult play in football.


And seeing the big guys mow over tacklers on their way to the end zone is awesome too.

where 11 people on offense executed their assignments perfectly. Everyone doing their job

He wasn't a D-lineman but on that play so close to the goal line I give him the benefit of the doubt.

called gadget plays, they are plays with just a higher level of execution. like diving

goal line stand

any INT

fumble recovery in the green zone, in either direction.

any PD at any time in the game

for a td. Watching linemen vacate and get out in space to smash is great stuff.

But if watching live, and talking one play I would say the deep pass.

You see the receiver breaking free, the ball goes up, the crowd rises in anxious anticipation, the catch is made and the crowd goes wild!

that LT perfected, it was and remains a thing of beauty.

Tyree's catch was the most amazing and exciting play I can think of. LT recovering the fumble to squeeze the life out of the 3-PEAT 49ers was like a gift from the football Gods.

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and no mention of the Annexation of Puerto Rico? Son, I am disappoint.

For me, the long yardage play. Any time Eli sets back and you know he's go deep, it's exciting. Probably the most exciting is a Kickoff or Punt Return that the runner eludes several would be tacklers to finally take it back to the house. Long play, lot of action. Watch David Wilson's 97 yarder as another example where you can see he hits the turbo button right before getting to the first row of blockers.

the shotgun draw in the green zone. Gilbride perfected it.

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Some of my fondest football memories, starting in 1984 with Mowatt, then of course Bavaro... It was a perfect play for Simms because it was pretty straightforward, one-read stuff where he could draw the safety up and then just let it fly.

That Collins bomb in the 2002 Indy game to Toomer is still one of my favorite plays of all time.
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back side seem off of lead option, works every time.

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Some of my fondest football memories, starting in 1984 with Mowatt, then of course Bavaro... It was a perfect play for Simms because it was pretty straightforward, one-read stuff where he could draw the safety up and then just let it fly.

Yes!!! Love it. My dad still gripes that they should bring that play back.

For no particular reason

so glamorous INT

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Student body right is poetry in motion.

and Sack for a safety are my #1 & #1A

without a dooubt

For example, the Tampa-2 dropped the MIKE into the deep middle. Unless he bit hard on play-action, the QB had to either look to a second option or put extra air under the ball to clear the LB, which meant more time for assassins like John Lynch to line up the crosshairs. And then there's cover-3, which I think of as a direct answer to the seam threat, whatever its other weaknesses may be.

A blind-side sack on a QB, where the QB just gets obliterated... and then pops right back up.

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but when you see a running back pause with the ball and throw it back the QB, you stand up and are like "YES, IT'S ON!"

I just like the opposing QB getting crushed.

executed flea flicker.

Brandon Jacobs obliterating Laron Landry. Ahmad Bradshaw steamrolling Brodney Poole. Andre Williams destroying Rodney McLeod. I live for those plays.

The Goal Line Stand. Offense has 4 plays to get one yard. The defense collectively responds with 'not on my watch'.

(either punt or FG) especially when the giants are down and the defense thinks they're getting the ball back. Crusher!

A stop on 4th and goal with less than a yards.

Sack in the endzone for a safety.

Blowing somebody up.(here's to you Jack Tatum) Sadly a thing of the past, mostly.

or hit on a RB, and either one looks like an Undertaker choke slam.
Ka-Boom!

Even sweeter if it's in the endzone.

So, I guess I like a lot of Amani Toomer TDs.

Alford.

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There have been so many great ones over the years, where it looked like the runner was caught, escaped , ran over someone, and then outsprinted the defense for a td.....

Off the top of my head, the last great run I remember, was the Lynch run, in the fourth quarter, against NO in the playoffs....34-30 with under 4 minutes left in the game, Lynch just runs through that NO defense for 67 yards and a td....

Some of the greatest I ever saw were from Jim Brown and Earl Campbell....You just shake your head in awe after some of those runs...

its great when even the announcers have no clue what is going on!

is one of my favs. always thought it can be a game changer.

of a well-executed screen pass to the RB. Nice seeing all the lineman get out front and make blocks and the RB get through into the open field. Too bad the Giants haven't been good at this lately.

Think Bavaro or some of Marshawn Lynch's best runs.

I also like plays where a RB is running down the sideline and the WRs are right there with him delivering blocks on pursuing defenders. Plax was really good at that.

too bad Coughlin NEVER calls it while Jim Fassell and Reeves went to it on a semi-regular basis

where my team stuffs the run. Love that because I remember loving being in the trenches during those plays and that's when slow fat defensive tackles can be the star.

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than the pick 6.

...I'm picturing Brandon Jacobs taking one in for a TD on that play late in the '11 season