FSU Hail Mary and our handling of the Hail Mary in general

[mosthated305]

Easy fix, don't let it coke down to a hail Mary again.

 

[bacane]

Because we try to high point and catch the ball instead of knock it down.

There is not a reason in the world that Briggs and/or Parris shouldn't have been out there standing in the endzone.

Dress Shelton Henderson, Cyril, Robert Miller, or even the Birden kid from the basketball team just for this one scenario lol would be a great asset to have available in the playoff.

Yeah, should have put Cantwell, Congdon & Mueller on the goal line. Lol
Point is, our best athlete in the secondary timed & out-leaped FSU’s stud WR. And yes, officials got the call right.

 

[YankeesCane]

I dunno, you'd think with a Weinberg as K we'd not doing a hail marys

 

[coffeecane]

Whoever thinks Deuce landed with control of the ball is just looking to bash us. They had a much better argument on the completed pass with the hold call.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

This isn't a cop out at all, we suck at this, obviously. But, and yes I know i'm dumb for not really making this connection in my head until now, but these weren't really "Hail Mary's". There was no clock running down, as is almost always the case in what causes a Hail Mary type play. It wasn't even goal to go. FSU could've gotten a first-down at the 15 yard line.

I was kind of going crazy, especially on the first one, thinking how in the **** Danzy got behind everyone and then really he and Day were the only players on that side of the field. How does that happen on a Hail Mary?? Well, probably because it wasn't a Hail Mary. Sorry, most of you are aware of this, I'm sure. Just in the hoopla of the end of the game and how it played out, with them throwing 2 of these back to back, for some reason in my mind I was treating this like a Hail Mary situation where you have 6 DBs standing in the endzone, and wondering why we didn't. Well, especially on the first one to Danzy before the holding call, it was 4th and 21 from the 36. So yes, we should've been playing soft, but they needed 21 to extend the game, not 36. They just treated it like a Hail Mary and ran around and launched it in the endzone. Twice.

Anyway, like I said most of yall I'm sure know this, it was just a weird ending, obviously. You rarely see a play like that, never mind two of them, where the offense really doesn't *have* to do that. You can try to get a first down, you don't have to throw a total desperation heave. The way they played it for some reason had me thinking after the game and really until this morning that it was a true Hail Mary type situation, score a TD on the last play or lose the game. It wasn't

 

[The U is back to work]

The biggest problem with this play was an FSU ball boy in all blue raises his hands that it’s a TD and I think everyone assumed that was a ref who did it.

 

[kendallcanes]

how to:


in action: it's more of the mindset of the defender to attack the ball with your fist and hit it out of bounds.


Everyone is trying to catch it with 2 hands instead of punching / hitting it out of bounds.