formermav43
250+ Posts
This is one of my biggest pet peeves while watching a game, and I wondered if anyone else cared or even noticed.
When the quarterback hands the ball directly to a receiver, this is an end around, not a reverse. Yet I constantly here commentators refer to this as a reverse. I find this mildly annoying. In order to be a reverse, the play must, by definition, "reverse" direction. The QB must either toss/hand the ball to the back on a sweep, or give to a receiver on an end around, who then gives to another receiver heading in the opposite direction. Of course, an end around is much more common than a reverse, they have similar action with a receiver carrying ball around end, and you have players, coaches, etc. yelling "reverse" to make the type of play known, so I can somewhat see this.
What really ticks me off, though, is when you do see an actual reverse. Probably 75% of the time I have seen this over the last several years, the play-by-play guy says "oh, wow, it's a double reverse." No, you moron, its not. A double reverse would require that receiver, who already got the ball from another back/receiver, to hand it to a third player running back in the original direction. This almost never occurs, it takes too long to develop. In fact, I don't know about you, but I can't recall a single game where I have seen this happen live; only 2 or 3 times in highlight reels.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Does this bother anyone else? Or am I just taking this way, way too seriously?
When the quarterback hands the ball directly to a receiver, this is an end around, not a reverse. Yet I constantly here commentators refer to this as a reverse. I find this mildly annoying. In order to be a reverse, the play must, by definition, "reverse" direction. The QB must either toss/hand the ball to the back on a sweep, or give to a receiver on an end around, who then gives to another receiver heading in the opposite direction. Of course, an end around is much more common than a reverse, they have similar action with a receiver carrying ball around end, and you have players, coaches, etc. yelling "reverse" to make the type of play known, so I can somewhat see this.
What really ticks me off, though, is when you do see an actual reverse. Probably 75% of the time I have seen this over the last several years, the play-by-play guy says "oh, wow, it's a double reverse." No, you moron, its not. A double reverse would require that receiver, who already got the ball from another back/receiver, to hand it to a third player running back in the original direction. This almost never occurs, it takes too long to develop. In fact, I don't know about you, but I can't recall a single game where I have seen this happen live; only 2 or 3 times in highlight reels.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Does this bother anyone else? Or am I just taking this way, way too seriously?
