Flea Flicker

It gives them another thing to worry about.

The Redskins used to use this against the Cowboys about 3 times a season back in the early-mid '80s. I'm glad to finally be on the good side of this play.
 
because OU guesses a lot. we may run the flea flicker once against OU, if at all, but we will hand off to the TB at least 30 times. this may help keep them honest.
 
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Sometimes I wonder about people. The fact that this was run against Rice has no bearing at all on ou. Numerous plays are run out of most formations. You mean to tell me that you actually think that Stoops will look for the FF now because he has seen it once and that the ou dbs will now resist the tendency to be sucked in on an apparent running play? Get real. Unless you know when and in what situation it will be run, it doesnt not matter. Furthermore, it can be run out of various formations and involve differnet personnel. Now, if Davis calls the play in only certain situations during certain times of the game and makes virtually no effort to disguise it, then we have a problem. Hmmmmm. Did I use the words problem and Davis in the same sentence? Man, I tend to do that often. Truth is, good teams always consider those possibilities, but the element of surprise provides the split second advantage for the offense.
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every year we run a trick play against an inferior opponent only to never see it again. Why should this year be any different?
 
I thought the flea flicker was introduced at just the right time. The score was 14-3 and the Rice offense was still moving the ball well against our D. The flea flicker TD pass to Shipley is what blew the game open for us. If our coaches could only employ the same playcalling skill against OU (which is unlikely, as others have noted), we'd fare a lot better against the Sooners.
 
I wondered why we should show it to OU as well, but it must be we wanted to show it to OU, so they will respect the possibility of it, and have to keep covering the receivers downfield. But they will know we showed it to them to make them keep covering the receivers downfield, so they will obviously not keep covering the receivers downfield. But will Greg Davis discern they are the kind of team that knows that he showed them the play to keep them covering the receivers, and that they will therefore not cover them, and therefore go back to the flea flicker?
 
If we're doing it to give them one more thing to think about, then why don't we just shown them the whole playbook? We're not going to run any trick plays against the OU and they know it.

We seem to only run trick plays against inferior opponents. It's kind of embarrassing.
 
Maybe, just maybe Coach Davis noticed the SS cheating up for run support and that Jammer would have no over-the-top support. He could have called play-action, he called a flea-flicker. Good call.

Don't expect to see it again unless the defense gives it to us.
 
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