Coaching Quiz

[Ken82d]

Your team is inside the opponent’s one yard line with first and goal down 22-21 with 39.2 seconds left in the 4Q. You have two timeouts. You have a serviceable kicker whose missed one extra point all year, a healthy RB with over 120 yards on ten carries so far in the game, and a QB whose run for about 8 yards all year. What do you do?

I’ll check in later to let you know how my son's coach handled this last night.

 

[marshall23]

Since we are talking high school.....I can say this having been in those shoes... that it all depends on if I have a reliable kicker, holder and snapper. In most of my seasons I would have had very little confidence to place a game in the hands of my field goal. extra point. Good snap, good hold, no leaks up front and a true kick....lot's of moving parts for HS kids under pressure.
This situation calls for a sneak....OL toe to toe wedge up front....QB sneak with other backs pushing the QB behind the play (an advantage offenses didn't have.....as It was a penalty to aid the runner when I played and coached.)
Advantage of the sneak.....no handoff to mess up and virtually no chance of losing yardage, insuring me that with 2 time outs I will have a minimum of 3 cracks at the TD.

My coaching tenet #1 is never make a decision that takes the game out of the hands of the team. So in keeping with this philosophy, if I ran 3 sneaks and time expired......and we didn't get in.....I could look every kid in the locker room directly in the eye.

i could live with those who would go sneak, TO, sneak, To and play action on 3rd down with instructions to throw the ball away if the primary isn't open and then on forth down try the kick.

If I did have an "automatic" placekicker and company.....I might consider sneak and then go to the kick if it didn't work.....saving a To and a down in the event the snap or hold needed the kick to be aborted, thus giving us another down to get it perfect.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Since we are talking high school.....I can say this having been in those shoes... that it all depends on if I have a reliable kicker, holder and snapper. In most of my seasons I would have had very little confidence to place a game in the hands of my field goal. extra point. Good snap, good hold, no leaks up front and a true kick....lot's of moving parts for HS kids under pressure.
This situation calls for a sneak....OL toe to toe wedge up front....QB sneak with other backs pushing the QB behind the play (an advantage offenses didn't have.....as It was a penalty to aid the runner when I played and coached.)
Advantage of the sneak.....no handoff to mess up and virtually no chance of losing yardage, insuring me that with 2 time outs I will have a minimum of 3 cracks at the TD.

My coaching tenet #1 is never make a decision that takes the game out of the hands of the team. So in keeping with this philosophy, if I ran 3 sneaks and time expired......and we didn't get in.....I could look every kid in the locker room directly in the eye.

i could live with those who would go sneak, TO, sneak, To and play action on 3rd down with instructions to throw the ball away if the primary isn't open and then on forth down try the kick.

I agree completely with this.

 

[Ken82d]

Your kicker has only missed one XP all year, holder’s older brother is a starting QB in the BIG, LS has two D1 offers to long snap.
Quick teaser: on first down, 2 Tight, two back set with QB under center - run up the gut for about a foot gain. Call a timeout.
2nd and goal a foot out. Coming out of the TO, what do u call?

 

[marshall23]

Your kicker has only missed one XP all year, holder’s older brother is a starting QB in the BIG, LS has two D1 offers to long snap.
Quick teaser: on first down, 2 Tight, two back set with QB under center - run up the gut for about a foot gain. Call a timeout.
2nd and goal a foot out. Coming out of the TO, what do u call?

I don't care who the holder's older brother is.... I'm running a sneak. If I can't get less than a yard on two sneaks I don't care what someone's father thinks. I'm putting the game in the hands of my players on the field. I'll have at least a 3rd play with 2 TOs and that is where the decision is made. Sounds to me that on first down the coach made a reasonable decision.
There's and old saying in the coaching fraternity "depends on who has the chalk last." While I would go with the sneak for the aforementioned reasons.....I wouldn't criticize giving the ball to a RB......another Coaching Commandment is in that situation "best back behind the best lineman."

 

[Ceasar]

You have two timeouts so you can/should run two running plays and if you do not score, kick a FG. Since your kicker is reliable, and you are inside the 1 yard line, that is an extra point and I expect my team to execute the FG, if they have been successful doing it all year. IMO first down play is QB sneak. Since he did not score, then on second down I either go sneak again or hand off to the RB inside the tackles. I don't try to go outside because I could lose 4-5 yards, making the FG slightly less of a "sure thing". So I don't have a strong preference on the second down call between sneak or RB off tackle. If I am concerned my line will get blown up then I go sneak. If I have decent confidence that one side of the line can get movement, I go hand off. But I am absolutely willing to kick the FG for the win. At some point you trust the percentages and if your K has missed just one PAT all season then the percentages are strongly in your favor.

 

[BobPSU92]

Your team is inside the opponent’s one yard line with first and goal down 22-21 with 39.2 seconds left in the 4Q. You have two timeouts. You have a serviceable kicker whose missed one extra point all year, a healthy RB with over 120 yards on ten carries so far in the game, and a QB whose run for about 8 yards all year. What do you do?

I’ll check in later to let you know how my son's coach handled this last night.

Corner fade to the midget wide receiver.

 

[phillybillyreprise]

What would Joe do?

 

[wentzel25]

If Madden has taught me anything, I line up 4-wide, shotgun w/ a hb. If there's a man on every receiver, inside zone. If they still crowd the box, quick slant.

 

[ouirpsu]

Corner fade to the midget wide receiver.

Uh, excuse me…vertically challenged wide receiver.

 

[bison13]

Rb who is popping 10+ a carry, hes getting the ball at least once if not twice. Sneak is an option if rb doesn't get it on 1st down. Could do play action from it at hit te to the flag

 

[sluggo72]

Why do I think the QB fumbled the ball on the sneak , the other team recovers, and the op team lost the game?

 

[BobPSU92]

Uh, excuse me…vertically challenged wide receiver.

🤔

 

[BobPSU92]

Why do I think the QB fumbled the ball on the sneak , the other team recovers, and the op team lost the game?

Reminds me of Ampipe. Why did Nickerson call a hand-off in that slop?

 

[YYZ86]

Spread team? Does the team practice under center? Sneaks. If defense is better in the A and B gap, slide QB over with the sneak (if practiced). FG last resort. If never under center, changes things.

 

[AWS1022]

Why do I think the QB fumbled the ball on the sneak , the other team recovers, and the op team lost the game?

My guess is whatever they did didn’t work so it can easily be second guessed after the fact.

 

[PSU Soupy]

I was there, and will go to the answer.....the team punted to pin the other team back....... much to the disappointment of the parents and fans......

 

[ouirpsu]

🤔

I don’t think you’re supposed to say “midget.”

 

[marshall23]

You have two timeouts so you can/should run two running plays and if you do not score, kick a FG. Since your kicker is reliable, and you are inside the 1 yard line, that is an extra point and I expect my team to execute the FG, if they have been successful doing it all year. IMO first down play is QB sneak. Since he did not score, then on second down I either go sneak again or hand off to the RB inside the tackles. I don't try to go outside because I could lose 4-5 yards, making the FG slightly less of a "sure thing". So I don't have a strong preference on the second down call between sneak or RB off tackle. If I am concerned my line will get blown up then I go sneak. If I have decent confidence that one side of the line can get movement, I go hand off. But I am absolutely willing to kick the FG for the win. At some point you trust the percentages and if your K has missed just one PAT all season then the percentages are strongly in your favor.

One more consideration is what hash is the ball on....or is it in the middle of the field? The angle can factor in if on a hash.

 

[AWS1022]

I was there, and will go to the answer.....the team punted to pin the other team back....... much to the disappointment of the parents and fans......

The team punted from the opponent’s one yard line, with 39 seconds left and losing by one? What?

 

[LionJim]

I don’t think you’re supposed to say “midget.”

Don’t ruin the joke by explaining it.

 

[ouirpsu]

Don’t ruin the joke by explaining it.

Ruin it? I MADE it funny!

 

[PSU Soupy]

The team punted from the opponent’s one yard line, with 39 seconds left and losing by one? What?

defense wins championships.....rely on your defense.....

 

[Thomas1945]

I’d run a triple reverse just to eliminate any rumors among the parents watching that I’m not an idiot.

 

[Woodpecker]

Run the nekkid!

Wait, am I turning into Coudersport?