With the beautiful unveiling of the Vereen ineligible play not to mention the double pass, what other trick plays that are out there that we'd actually like to see the Pats try in a meaningful game? Be as "deceptive" as you can be.
The ineligible play has a few variants that comes to mind if the next opponent figures out that you don't have to cover the ineligible player. You could actually throw a lateral to the ineligible player. If that ineligible player is Edelman we know he can throw the ball. You could also maybe run some kind of hook and ladder to the ineligible player if you time it so that he doesn't cross the LOS until the pass is thrown.
You could have Vereen report as ineligible AND Solder report as eligible to further mess with their minds. Then run a draw play.
Remember the play when Rex had a player lie down in the end zone during a kickoff, hoping the kicking team didn't see him? That was dumb. No one lies down on a kickoff, so that called attention to that player. However, occasionally returners ignore the upmen who try to signal "stop" to the returner. So you can design a play where the returner ignores an upman's "stop" signal and runs the ball out of the end zone, then stops and laterals the ball back to the upman going the other way. This might still be a low percentage play, but at least the fakeout part isn't so obvious as Rex's concoction.
I'd like for teams to practice lining up in the weirdest legal formation possible, just to do when it's 4th and short and you know you're going to kick it anyway and you don't care if you get a delay of game. Say it's 4th and 2 at the opponent's 5 in the first quarter. So we line up with Gronk snapping the ball to Edelman while the entire rest of the offense is off on the right sideline. We run signals, put a guy in motion, yell a bunch of nonsense. Maybe the defense jumps or burns a TO. Maybe not, we get a delay of game, and Gost hits a 27 yard field goal instead of a 22 yarder.
The ineligible play has a few variants that comes to mind if the next opponent figures out that you don't have to cover the ineligible player. You could actually throw a lateral to the ineligible player. If that ineligible player is Edelman we know he can throw the ball. You could also maybe run some kind of hook and ladder to the ineligible player if you time it so that he doesn't cross the LOS until the pass is thrown.
You could have Vereen report as ineligible AND Solder report as eligible to further mess with their minds. Then run a draw play.
Remember the play when Rex had a player lie down in the end zone during a kickoff, hoping the kicking team didn't see him? That was dumb. No one lies down on a kickoff, so that called attention to that player. However, occasionally returners ignore the upmen who try to signal "stop" to the returner. So you can design a play where the returner ignores an upman's "stop" signal and runs the ball out of the end zone, then stops and laterals the ball back to the upman going the other way. This might still be a low percentage play, but at least the fakeout part isn't so obvious as Rex's concoction.
I'd like for teams to practice lining up in the weirdest legal formation possible, just to do when it's 4th and short and you know you're going to kick it anyway and you don't care if you get a delay of game. Say it's 4th and 2 at the opponent's 5 in the first quarter. So we line up with Gronk snapping the ball to Edelman while the entire rest of the offense is off on the right sideline. We run signals, put a guy in motion, yell a bunch of nonsense. Maybe the defense jumps or burns a TO. Maybe not, we get a delay of game, and Gost hits a 27 yard field goal instead of a 22 yarder.
