The Football Thread

[nuraman00]

I‘d tell you, but I’d have to kill you.

Can you be a spy for Halloween next year?

 

[MHSL82]

Is that the official name of the position? Or just his role?

Is there a spy on every single down?

No, I don’t know the position, it changes. The safety can drop down, but usually not because they’re deeper. The defensive end can, but they are often the one trying to sack the quarterback. And there are other positions that are technical that I don’t know very well. I have heard of all of them of course, I just can’t answer questions without looking it up and I don’t want to. But there is no position called the spy position.

Some quarterbacks are not very mobile, and so there would only be a spy when it is clear that they are so close to the end zone (or first down) that the quarterback may keep it.

For example, Peyton Manning almost never ran the ball. One of his famous plays is where he did run in for the touchdown, and he was running so slowly, but nobody was defending him because he never runs. You wouldn’t waste a spy on that. You would want an extra defender against the receivers or tight ends in that situation.

Again, the spy will still defend whoever is in his vicinity for a ball being thrown, or if the player with the ball is still running toward him. But they’re not gonna pay attention to somebody who they don’t believe is going to run and basically never for the whole game for those players. But for players like Colin Kaepernick used to, Mahomes on many plays, Lamar Jackson, and every play, etc., they would.