Chiefs Lifting Plays from Crisler
February 3rd, 2020 at 12:53 AM ^
Haha. I said that after the play. My buddy said he had never seen that before and i said you obviously never saw UM's mad magicians in the 40s.
February 3rd, 2020 at 1:33 AM ^
LOL, I made almost the exact same comment about the pre-snap shift on the first Chiefs TD drive as I was watching the game with my daughter and her hubby, even showed them this YouTube 1948 Rose Bowl footage of the Mad Magicians:
Besides that, I also noted the Mad Magicians formation shift and play on the MGoSuperBowl game thread:
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/super-bowl-thread-game-and-watching-party#comment-243748140
February 3rd, 2020 at 8:08 AM ^
Do you want a cookie?
February 3rd, 2020 at 8:59 AM ^
As sports viewing achievements go, this is cookie worthy.
February 3rd, 2020 at 9:56 AM ^
Since you're nice enough to ask, buy me some Girl Scout Caramel Delights and Thin Mints, ok?
Thanks!
February 3rd, 2020 at 10:51 AM ^
next time please ask for the peanut butter ones, and you have to share with us.
February 3rd, 2020 at 11:35 AM ^
Do you have cookies? Because I'd like a cookie.
February 3rd, 2020 at 6:20 AM ^
Not cool, because the team that ran this in the Super Bowl employs Frank Clark and he is a horrible human being ........ sincerely, the grandstanding do gooders of mgoblog.
February 3rd, 2020 at 7:27 AM ^
Man, you are one pathetic loser! Just when I thought you couldn’t be any dumber you go and do something like this...and totally redeem yourself.
February 3rd, 2020 at 6:41 AM ^
There was a fantastic Ringer article earlier this week about how Andy Reid is the best offensive mind in football. He combs through plays from the early 1900s to modern college football every offseason to keep innovating so OPs post is not surprising at all. He’s on record saying the college game is 5 years ahead of the NFL on offense.
https://www.theringer.com/nfl-playoffs/2020/1/30/21114965/andy-reid-super-bowl
February 3rd, 2020 at 8:11 AM ^
Taking from others isn't innovating.
February 3rd, 2020 at 10:53 AM ^
Taking ideas from the past and figuring out ways to make them work in the context of the now is exactly how 50% of every innovation to football has happened (the other 50% is blind chance of something weird happening by accident and someone making a play or system out of it).
February 3rd, 2020 at 12:53 PM ^
Indeed—and not just football. Ford didn’t invent the assembly line; he adapted it. Sam Walton copied Meijer in building Walmart. Apple learned from Xerox.
There’s an excellent short book (“Steal Like an Artist”) that discusses how people need to get over themselves and realize that innovation lies in how you selectively take and adapt what was done before.
February 3rd, 2020 at 7:04 AM ^
Fire Harbaugh.
February 3rd, 2020 at 8:46 AM ^
i also heard on too separate plays (one a 1-yard sack and the other a ~40-yard bomb) mahomes call out "Go Blue 80" before the snap. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with michigan, but i like to believe it does
February 3rd, 2020 at 9:49 AM ^
A Chad Henne suggestion I'm sure
February 3rd, 2020 at 11:12 AM ^
Nice change of pace from "Omaha! Omaha!"
February 3rd, 2020 at 9:29 AM ^
I saw this and while it was really cool, I was conflicted in that it would have been better if we had pulled that out in a crucial game. There have been a few times in big games where we needed a yard and could have pulled that out.
February 3rd, 2020 at 12:58 PM ^
This play is straight from the Michigan single wing. My high school (in the 1950s ran the Michigan single wing. Other schools had trouble stopping it because everyone else ran the T formation. I'm surprised that in this day of spreads, direct snaps, etc. that someone does's revive the single wing as their standard formation.
February 3rd, 2020 at 3:06 PM ^
It's interesting that in their two Super Bowl victories separated by a half-century, the Chiefs used running plays at the goal line that have received unusual amounts of notice for their design.
2020: 1948 Spin Move
1970: 65 Toss Power Trap
February 3rd, 2020 at 3:40 PM ^
As a Viking fan I can only say -- Pearson pushed off and I fucking hate mention of the 65 Toss Power Trap. But +1 for you for getting me going.
February 3rd, 2020 at 5:17 PM ^
Fritz Crisler was a boss.
February 4th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
The past always has a way of coming back ‘round. That’s why, as I’ve gotten wiser, I am a history buff. (I always wondered why old guys loved history, it’s wisdom)
February 4th, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
how great would it have been to have this in the playbook during OSU when Gardner could have won the game?