The deficits in the first half have honestly been mind boggling. Weird thing is I sorta thought to myself...we will now score multiple times....this team doesn’t know how to kick it into gear apparently until they are down 17. I just knew the burners would fire as soon as the Lions hit the 17 plus points mark
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LOL! Glad it worked ... not sure I want him getting play inspirations from movies. Lets keep the Mike McCarthy style coaching on the other side.The Bumerooski... Ha!
Peter Hailey...
Never before has a box score done so much injustice to a single play than the following description of this second quarter sequence in Washington's Thanksgiving win over the Cowboys: J.McKissic left tackle to DAL 10 for 6 yards.
That wording makes you think that was a totally straightforward run, the kind you see in the NFL countless times every weekend.
It absolutely wasn't, however.
What's lost in that bland sentence is that Alex Smith's handoff to JD McKissic was treated like a total secret, and that Ron Rivera drew inspiration for the design of the call from a movie that he's watched with his daughter over and over and over, and that Scott Turner had to have some serious (ahem) to actually tell his offense to run the thing.
With Washington down three and in the Dallas red zone on Thursday at AT&T Stadium, the visitors decided to give the play a shot.
As Ron Rivera revealed afterward, he first got the idea for the play from "Little Giants," a 1994 football film for kids that he estimated he's seen roughly 100 times. In fact, he actually executed something incredibly similar in his first year with the Panthers.
“We nicknamed it the ‘Bumerooski,’" Rivera explained to the media, a reference to longtime coach Bum Phillips.
LOL
Happy Birthday Art!
