The Punt That Chung Caught Over His Shoulder - Misdirection Play???

[shmessy]

Was talking with my brother this morning and he brought up something I never noticed during the game........but it makes sense.

BB was emptying the playbook in that second half of almost every trick play possible!

1) The unsuccessful Brady lateral to Edelman to throw to Dion Lewis play.

2) The Hilltopper play at the end of regulation (which by the way, if worked and ended the Super Bowl, would have been immortalized as the GREATEST PLAY IN SPORTS HISTORY).

3) The direct snap to White for the 1st 2 point conversion

4) The onside kick

****5) The one I didn't quite notice at the time, but which seemed strange when happening, was the punt that Chung fielded dangerously over his shoulder almost Willie Mays-like by the sidelines. My brother contends (I have to find the replay of it) that Edelman was on the other side of he field waving fair catch and that this was a classic planned misdirection play.

Did anyone else see it that way?

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[chasa]

I saw it, thought it was strange, since it didnt seem to fool a single person

 

[shmessy]

I saw it, thought it was strange, since it didnt seem to fool a single person

My brother says it fooled everyone except for one gunner on the Falcons. The upshot was that the punt went right to the sidelines and couldn't be returned anyhow.

Need to see the video of it, though.

 

[slam]

I said that in another thread. I think they were absolutely trying to run this play the Seahawks executed in 2015 and done a few times before.



It just takes one player on the other team to not be fooled for the play to not work.

 

[bbobbo]

great catch by you guys (and chung too). you can't see edelman calling for the fair catch, but he does run up as though he's trying to field it. and it does fool everyone except for hardy (#16). i was wondering why chung was trying to field it in such a risky way.

here's the play:

 

[slam]

Yep. Fooled very Falcon but #16. #47 is trotting in looking at Edelman even as Chung got tackled. No other Falcon appears at the top of the screen. Would've gotten at least 30 yards.

 

[mosi]

Yes, I remember that and thinking back to the 2010 Jets playoff game when he tried the fake punt. Scared the crap out of me wondering what the hell he was doing.

 

[SlowGettingUp]

Was talking with my brother this morning and he brought up something I never noticed during the game........but it makes sense.

BB was emptying the playbook in that second half of almost every trick play possible!

1) The unsuccessful Brady lateral to Edelman to throw to Dion Lewis play.

2) The Hilltopper play at the end of regulation (which by the way, if worked and ended the Super Bowl, would have been immortalized as the GREATEST PLAY IN SPORTS HISTORY).

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Hilltopper play:

Here’s where it appears Bill Belichick got the idea for that fake-kneel play

 

[shmessy]

great catch by you guys (and chung too). you can't see edelman calling for the fair catch, but he does run up as though he's trying to field it. and it does fool everyone except for hardy (#16). i was wondering why chung was trying to field it in such a risky way.

here's the play:

Awesome. Thank you!

 

[slam]

I'm pretty sure we can find the exact double pass play we tried attempted by the Jaguars a little while ago.

 

[1960Pats]

Was talking with my brother this morning and he brought up something I never noticed during the game........but it makes sense.

BB was emptying the playbook in that second half of almost every trick play possible!

1) The unsuccessful Brady lateral to Edelman to throw to Dion Lewis play.

2) The Hilltopper play at the end of regulation (which by the way, if worked and ended the Super Bowl, would have been immortalized as the GREATEST PLAY IN SPORTS HISTORY).

The one I didn't quite notice at the time, but which seemed strange when happening, was the punt that Chung fielded dangerously over his shoulder almost Willie Mays-like by the sidelines. My brother contends (I have to find the replay of it) that Edelman was on the other side of he field waving fair catch and that this was a classic planned misdirection play.

Did anyone else see it that way?

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Is that what happened? The camera went to JE but switched to the other side and I didn't see it at the time. I'll be sure to check the play during one of the dozen times I re-watch the game.

 

[Shed83]

Hester scored a TD against GB a few years ago with this exact play.....sadly for him one of his idiot colleagues done an illegal block in the back on a guy that got tricked (or pointless block!) and got flagged negating the TD

 

[A Defiant Goose]

I knew exactly what it was in real time and almost **** myself thinking Chung was gonna drop it

 

[sambam94]

of course, announcers didn't catch it and never mentioned it..

 

[Halifax_Pats_Fan]

the gunner had Chung all along....can't blame them though...

 

[Gumby]

the gunner had Chung all along....can't blame them though...

Not quite all along. He started to go towards edeldude, then saw chung wasnt continuing on a blocking assignment and then also started looking up/Tracking the ball and then drifting back to left. Ah well, maybe BB will Target 16 in FA someday, If he is so aware.

 

[shmessy]

Is that what happened? The camera went to JE but switched to the other side and I didn't see it at the time. I'll be sure to check the play during one of the dozen times I re-watch the game.

See post #5

 

[1960Pats]

See post #5

Thanks. It still took me a view looks to see exactly what happened.

Now that I've seen it better I'm glad that I didn't really see it live. It made me slightly nervous even now. That was a very stupid play by Chung for the situation, even though a few players fell for it. One player didn't.

 

[slam]

Thanks. It still took me a view looks to see exactly what happened.

Now that I've seen it better I'm glad that I didn't really see it live. It made me slightly nervous even now. That was a very stupid play by Chung for the situation, even though a few players fell for it. One player didn't.

Chung didn't decide to do this on his own. The play was called by the sidelines. Desperate times.

 

[shmessy]

Chung didn't decide to do this on his own. The play was called by the sidelines. Desperate times.

BB and TB looked so cool, but those were some pretty desperate moments. They sent out 4 trick plays in that 4th quarter. I don't believe I've ever seen that happen in the last 17 years with this team.

A night that will live forever.