As far is my favorite play, anything involving a fullback digging a linebacker out of the hole is something that I really enjoy watching. As far as I'm concerned, that is football – the never-ending struggle for that hard final yard. I love watching that play out and I hate offenses don't have that capability.

I also love watching linemen or tight ends, cross the line and wham block the weak side defender who often thinks he has a clear run to the ball carrier. Wisconsin runs that counter gap play better than anyone else and it is a thing of beauty and a major reason why they have been so successful for so long. It's truly a thing of beauty seeing that level of mass coordination and execution. It's really what football is all about.

As for defensive plays, that's hard. It's really more about the way defenses play rather than individual plays. However, one play exemplifies the aggressive approach that I have always favored is the Double A Gap blitz.

I think the key to beating all of these Cracker Jack box offenses nowadays is to do whatever you have to do to disrupt their timing. That means jamming and challenging receivers and contesting every single yard they run in a given pass route. You need to get in their way, get tangled up with them, hold when you can, do whatever you have to do to disrupt their timing.

It also means did you have to make sure that the quarterback's clock is sped up and the only real way to do that is by knocking him on his arse as often as possible. This play often accomplishes that objective.

(03-08-2017 08:13 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  Not really related to this discussion but I used to serve as a director on the Hoge/Lake golf tournament Merrill Hoge ran with Carnell Lake and I have to tell you they are two of the nicest people, much less professional athletes, I have ever been around. It's literally impossible to dislike Merrill Hoge. He's just a great guy from Idaho.

Don't get me wrong. I don't hate him as a person. In fact, I'm sure he's as awesome as a person as you say he is. Hell, he's beaten a life-threatening form of cancer, if I remember correctly. I respect the hell out of him based on that alone! I just don't like him as an NFL analyst due to the fact he seems to look for opportunities to do a bad impression of Vince Lombardi discussing the Power Sweep. That's all.

Offense: Slip screen up the middle to the running back for six. It takes a real good team to sell it while getting upfield to block effectively.
Defense: An interception picked off well into the secondary and returned for a touchdown. The sheer chaos really makes it for me, you have two sides of the ball lining up a plan and then all the sudden you have ten players sacrificing their bodies to help make a big play while eleven guys get to hit someone.
Special Teams: No specific play, but I do remember someone one my high school team recovering an onside kick and returning it for a touchdown, that was pretty badass.

How about the play that broke Joe Paterno's leg?

(03-08-2017 06:50 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 04:36 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I do have to admit....this play is growing on me for some reason

Yeah, it's right up there with the Kick Six!

If it involves a Bammer loss it's worth consideration.

(03-08-2017 11:49 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 06:50 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 04:36 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I do have to admit....this play is growing on me for some reason

Yeah, it's right up there with the Kick Six!

If it involves a Bammer loss it's worth consideration.

That's not how you rate Alabama losses. You rate them on how sudden and painful they are to the Bama faithful. An undefeated Bryant team beat Auburn all over the field in 1972. They scored 16 first half points (one extra point was blocked). Auburn managed a late 3rd quarter field goal to cut the lead to 13. Then in the last 7 minutes of the game Auburn blocked two punts returning each for a touchdown and beat the Tide 17-16. Bear was visibly shaken, their fan base absolutely stunned, then angry, then in hiding for the following year.

I count that as Bama's all time leading loss in the series, but just barely.

Cam Newton coming from a 24 point first half deficit to beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa is a very near 2nd. The taunting had already started from the Bammers before the first half reached a conclusion. When we pulled within a score they had shifted to antsy whispering among each other and anxious looks that seemed to be begging that this wouldn't be true. At the end of the game it was simply stunned silence, followed by outrage, and culminating in Harvey Updike poisoning our trees. It was the biggest chink delivered to Saban's armor until the third most painful loss to Auburn.

Kick Six. Saban pleaded with the referees to put one second back on the clock for a field goal attempt of just over 50 yards at Jordan Hare. He didn't notice the Auburn returner placed back at the goal line until the kick was ready to be snapped. The Bammers just knew that if they didn't make the kick they would beat us in overtime. The tears, and stunned looks followed by another year of absolute silence was priceless. Saban begged for the 1 second it took for them to lose. And those 350 pound offensive linemen who formed an impenetrable barrier to reaching the kicker also proved to be the leaden legs that couldn't catch our guy. Priceless!

What puts your game so high on the meter is that after their last score they Bammers were convinced that they had another natty. The Bama D would never let them down in the last minute of a big game. One possible pick later and voila, the Bama pain-o-meter pegged out again! It was a classic! Complete with the sudden demoralizing reversal of fortunes, Bama whining about officiating (always a cherry on top of the cake!), and the instantaneous questioning of coaching decisions. That my friend is a great day!

Power 0

The triple option out of any formation really .

(03-09-2017 01:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 11:49 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 06:50 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 04:36 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I do have to admit....this play is growing on me for some reason

Yeah, it's right up there with the Kick Six!

If it involves a Bammer loss it's worth consideration.

That's not how you rate Alabama losses. You rate them on how sudden and painful they are to the Bama faithful. An undefeated Bryant team beat Auburn all over the field in 1972. They scored 16 first half points (one extra point was blocked). Auburn managed a late 3rd quarter field goal to cut the lead to 13. Then in the last 7 minutes of the game Auburn blocked two punts returning each for a touchdown and beat the Tide 17-16. Bear was visibly shaken, their fan base absolutely stunned, then angry, then in hiding for the following year.

I count that as Bama's all time leading loss in the series, but just barely.

Cam Newton coming from a 24 point first half deficit to beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa is a very near 2nd. The taunting had already started from the Bammers before the first half reached a conclusion. When we pulled within a score they had shifted to antsy whispering among each other and anxious looks that seemed to be begging that this wouldn't be true. At the end of the game it was simply stunned silence, followed by outrage, and culminating in Harvey Updike poisoning our trees. It was the biggest chink delivered to Saban's armor until the third most painful loss to Auburn.

Kick Six. Saban pleaded with the referees to put one second back on the clock for a field goal attempt of just over 50 yards at Jordan Hare. He didn't notice the Auburn returner placed back at the goal line until the kick was ready to be snapped. The Bammers just knew that if they didn't make the kick they would beat us in overtime. The tears, and stunned looks followed by another year of absolute silence was priceless. Saban begged for the 1 second it took for them to lose. And those 350 pound offensive linemen who formed an impenetrable barrier to reaching the kicker also proved to be the leaden legs that couldn't catch our guy. Priceless!

What puts your game so high on the meter is that after their last score they Bammers were convinced that they had another natty. The Bama D would never let them down in the last minute of a big game. One possible pick later and voila, the Bama pain-o-meter pegged out again! It was a classic! Complete with the sudden demoralizing reversal of fortunes, Bama whining about officiating (always a cherry on top of the cake!), and the instantaneous questioning of coaching decisions. That my friend is a great day!

Those are all fine plays. But we defeated their attempt to destroy our football program and our university. We marched, we organized, we lobbied and in the end we inflicted the most painful loss on The Machine since Wilson's Raiders burned their nest of evil to the ground in 1865.

The greatest play in football will happen in 176 days, when UAB kicks off its restoration and Bryant Junior rolls over in his grave.

They weren't content with buying recruits or cheating at football. Their boosters tried to destroy another university's football program because Little Bear's ego was hurt that Gene Bartow called his papa a cheating piece of **** in 1983. And they lost.

The over under 69 play is fun

(03-08-2017 02:09 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Double reverse flea flicker

http://campussports.net/2015/09/19/video...a-flicker/

Too soon.

The Rouge.