Smartest Plays in NFL History 

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Can you do teams that were great in the regular season but lost in playoffs of SB? Ex 2007 pats 2019 ravens I asked this last vid

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Yeah lemme just hop on rn :flushed:

It was genius my only question is why doesn’t the bengals get the ball back with the time that penalty was committed ?

@@tarikmickey9218 because the safety is the bigger reward and therefor takes priority. That's why that play was 5head instead of 0IQ

Tim Magness “bigger reward” has nothing to do with it. The game/half can only be extended by a defensive penalty.

Is that Ravens' rule/loophole still in the rulebook?

@@johnreagan it was made illegal with the 2017 rules changes. To quote: ARTICLE 3. INTENTIONAL FOULS TO MANIPULATE GAME CLOCK A team may not commit multiple fouls during the same down in an attempt to manipulate the game clock. Penalty: For multiple fouls to run off time from the game clock: Loss of 15 yards, and the game clock will be reset to where it was at the snap. After the penalty is enforced, the game clock will start on the next snap.

It’s about the deception

Highlight Heaven yes a quarterback sneak is so smart, never been done before

@@samrogers1055 Manning never runs the ball so it was unexpected

1st time in 5 years = twice a decade How do you plan for something that happens twice a decade?

Sam Rogers that wasn’t a qb sneak tho he made it look like a entire handoff and after he did the fake handoff he did a little walk then started running while the rb acted like he had the ball getting a td and Peyton hid the ball

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I think it was used in the replacements (2000) Though it wasn’t to seal the game it was to regain team confidence

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@@mattchapman2054 2:15

Dam not on my boys smh

Steve Bono's fake should have been on here too

He did the exact same play against bama. Nobody on the VOLS new he was going to do it.

I was thinking "Dumb Luck" plays.

Yeah, there was a lot of physical skill in most of these but it's mainly seems like "common sense plays" to me.

Ya like that first play could have easily given up a safety

Lol swear

Yea the first one he literally almost gets tackled into his own end zone as soon as he picks the ball up.

ages like wine everytime

@@billyshorts371 lol

@@blitzy3244 from a ravens fan

holy. crap.

As a Packers fan, I'd like to thank you for The Lion's contribution to us making the playoffs nearly every year.

Too much pat McAfee show and cool aid for you. What was the score and quarter when he did it?

Extremely smart

@@danielrichards9502 All you gotta do is go to 6:20 on the video to see it is 3-0 against Houston with 11:13 left in the 1st quarter. Ya gotta come up with a harder question than that... lol

NFL IS FAKE AND RIGGED. Staged theater.

Saw that play live. Almost spit out my cheerios

Tyler DeMamiel Freal nobody else is talking about it lol

4:00 for the extra look friends.

In that moment he became a 16 year old playing Madden

2:15 is smart because you never expect Peyton Manning to run it

Who else here after Gurley scored the "accidental" touchdown

I Am A Human “and look at the return he gets!”

SmittyYT yes

It’s exactly what he said though

I Am A Human “what a smart move by Harris!”

I Am A Human “as he gets free!”

even the CROWD was faked out. He made it to the 40 before the crowd really got what was happening

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Lmaoo I can imagine the pain

LOL

At least you get the yards

lmfao thats too funny.

It's like he was trying to mess with fantasy players🤣

They play for Cincinnati. Confused is their natural state of being.

@@monstermikeheinrichs this entire play was madness but smart for the ravens

I spit my drink out laughing when I saw that one-- pure comedy

Me.

They beat Tom Brady

@Juan El Bean lol

They beat Tom Booty the 9th

Yeah I watched it, super bowl 173, right?

Boo hoo, you lost points on your fantasy team, despite the Rams literally going to the superbowl

Flare The Folf I think he’s joking 🙃

@@flarethefolf78 chill lol it's a joke :/

Flare The Folf Have u ever heard of a joke

First one unselfish. second one dumb. game still had 2.37 left.

Yes indeed. One of the greatest games ever. Kellen Winslow had 13 receptions for 166 yards. I believe he also blocked a FG attempt in overtime. Chargers got off to a 24-0 first quarter lead but the Dolphins came back. The Chargers had three receivers go for over 100 yards (Winslow, Chandler, Joiner) and Chuck Muncie rushed for 120 yards. The Chargers had 564 yards of total offense. In this game they had to battle the heat and humidity and in the AFC Championship game the Chargers had to go to Antarctica.

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The most overrated QB to ever play the game

@@imkool51391 nah that’s brady

@@imkool51391 which? Mahomes?

Great no look throw - but great for its blind accuracy, not for being particularly smart. In fact, from purely a smartness qualification, it FAILS. It's 99/100 times going to fail and so it's a DUMB play, not a smart play. It was successful not BECAUSE it was smart but DESPITE it being DUMB.

Stafford so underrated Carr too

Same here my friend.

Me too, but the other way as I am a Broncos fan lol. Go hornets though

Every time I see Cam Newton, I think about him not diving after that ball in the most important game of his life

The day Superman died... And they lost to the Broncos WEEK ONE the very next season.

munny moore but to be fair we woulda won if Gano didn’t miss

that's a good way to make the RB really sell it

So the takeaway here is that Peyton Manning is the greatest read option QB in NFL history. Name another QB with a 100% success rate. I'll wait.

@@ClemsonFan46 Another? Even Manning doesn't have a 100% success rate.

@@jenx5870 You missed the joke bud.

And? Whats the point of this? Noone cares.

@@jamesspader85 everyone knows Bundy was the greatest football player to never break out of the high school level.

@@DougsShack Fairly certain the vast majority of people do not know that and no one fucking cares... lol

@@randomupdates4013 just like your comment

@@DougsShack oldheads really love the Bundy joke done a million times

And for that, Bill O’Brien has traded you and JJ Watt to the Patriots for washed up Drew Bledsoe and a 2050 7th round pick, somehow.

*sense

Pollo Gaming r/woooosh

Nah r/outofthloop

@@pollogaming919 Someone missed the joke...

I was looking at the lions game on the game day app. It said he scored. I cheered and the score never changed. Then it placed us at the 2. I was like, wtf happened?! I need those points!

Why wasn’t he scoring? What happened that game to make him decide not to?

Tyler Nash instead of scoring, he decided to give himself up, that way, the clock keeps running and it makes the other team use a timeout.

@@ryanrampage8266 He did score a play or two later; justice was served.

@@ryanrampage8266 he would be up by 2 possession and not have to risk a potential fumble the next play. honestly getting the score is the smart thing to do here.

Yes, I can see Runyan motioning to Westbrook to go down, but Westbrook was already on it. They both understood the situation. That is clear when you watch the play again. See how Westbrook slows down when he breaks through? A running back laser-focused on running the play out would not have broken stride , slowed down, and turned back to gauge where his pursuers are before laying down. There's no way he was sprinting all-out enroute to the end zone when somehow he was able to hear Runyan's voice instructing him to go down. It was just a case of one guy motioning to another to do something that the other guy was already in the process of executing.

still don't get why? They would have been up by 10 points.

that shit had me dying, they legit just rolling on the ground cause, why not. they don't care if they a holding call.

So smart that the NFL outlawed it the following season.

@@eccentricgamer4111 How? So a half can't end on an offensive penalty now either?

@@jesusthroughmary Here’s the rule now: ARTICLE 3. INTENTIONAL FOULS TO MANIPULATE GAME CLOCK A team may not commit multiple fouls during the same down in an attempt to manipulate the game clock. Penalty: For multiple fouls to run off time from the game clock: Loss of 15 yards, and the game clock will be reset to where it was at the snap. After the penalty is enforced, the game clock will start on the next snap.

@@eccentricgamer4111 i was wondering, have they changed the rule regarding when a player stands out of bounds and fields a kick-off, kicking team is penalized? That rule is kinda ridiculous.

Dude, why are you everywhere? Lol

Why i don't understand it tho??????

That’s as far as I got too, ... 👋

@@fredericcaron1317 the defense didnt secure the ball down at the 1 yard line so it was still live, return man just picks it up and runs with it. big error from the defense tho that raiders player caugh them sleeping

@@stjames3852 I don't know how laying on the ball with it in your arms isn't securing it...

For real, he does it multiple times there then loses the game for the falcons🤦‍♂️

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@@Spartan-ew8jl Lions got revenge on Gurley

Me

@@Spartan-ew8jl the sorry ass falcons lost that game, not Gurley

I don't have to imagine it. Westbrook would've won my game that week if he scored.

@@gnohms sorry

It's a good lesson for other players to never take your eyes off the ball.

It's like literally because he's the only person paying attention he gets a free hundred yard rush touchdown

i'm sorry, was a rule changed after that? because i'm pretty sure that if a punt lands in the endzone it's a touchback, so the ball is no longer playable

Yes it was. That play was the longest punt return in NFL history and it's now basically impossible to beat it

The other player running with him to provide cover knew what was up, but since they were the only two paying attention, he had nobody to block.

@The Thing I honestly didn’t even know he was on the bills I remember seeing him play on the eagles tho he was crazy definition of if it’s not broke don’t fix it I’m a pats fan and Steven Ridley almost caused me to buy a stress ball 🤣🤣

As a Philly native and Eagles Diehard, dude gave me so much anxiety running like that

Harris picking it up there was smart because there is an NFL rule where once a player on the punting team touches it that spot the the worst spot u can get. So if he had been tackled in the endzone, it wouldn’t have been a safety because they Broncos defender touched it at the 1 yard line. So the only thing that can happen there is he gets positive yards

@@whitericegaming1532 Yep, even if he picks it up, runs 50 yards and loses a fumble, doesn't matter. They keep the ball at the spot it was first touched. No risk at all to pick it up.

Shouldn’t that be he wa the first to touch it after purposely going out of bounds tho?

Ravens fan here

That rule needs to be addressed. There were like 10 penalties on the play and they get away with them all then the game ends. Something like that should be considered a personal foul and enacted the 15 yard penalty on the safety kick.

@@darron614 I'm not even a Ravens fan and that play was genius. Maybe slightly slimy but still genius. The rules are the rules, might as well know them.

@@milkwalkerjones633 well I found out that they actually did amend the rules where multiple fouls like that on the same play results in a personal foul.

Even as a longtime Colts fan, I'd be the first to admit he had no wheels. But that's exactly why the opposing team was so fooled (as was the camera).

Matthew Stafford's fake spike and dive into the endzone against Dallas should have been on there but apparently this page hates the Lions.

I guess only 1% of professional players know the rule, that was really impressive

@@tianhaowen2825 What do you mean? The whole O line knew it because they knew they could get away with holding on the play.

0:53 if that dude is on my fantasy team i would scream

Not really. It was successful due to accuracy not smarts. It's not smart to make a blind throw. You just don't have the CONSISTENT accuracy throwing blind, so you can't say it's a smart play. It's a DUMB, risky play, but lucky. With super talent, like Mahomes, it may be LESS dumb than with other QB's but it's still very risky and dumb.

@@rhmayer1 that is even more evident this year with him throwing multiple picks off it

@@rhmayer1 he didn’t say it requires smarts he said it required SKILL but that looking the other way (to throw off defenders) was smart. Actually read before replying

@@theuzumakikay8647 For real?? He said it was smart, just as the title of the video mistakenly said. I disagreed. I'm not raising the issue of skill. Of course Mahomes has skills. I'm arguing not to call something smart that's dumb. And btw, "required" wasn't mentioned. You might try taking your own criticism.

@@rhmayer1 I agree that it is a risky play, but I can't agree with it being a dumb play. It requires incredible football knowledge and familiarity with his receiver to know where a guy would be on the field without looking. Yes sometimes it will not pay off, but often risky plays in football make the smartest and best plays. Any play in this compilation would be dumb if it had not worked out.

Isn't unstrapping your helmet when the ball is still live a penalty?

@@ignatiusq.snerdiiesq.7007 Taking off your helmet is the penalty

For the brand. If you haven’t heard his story on his podcast, your missing out.

“Harris says I’m gonna play this cuz I can”

I like how Peyton Manning running with the ball is considered one of the smartest football plays ever

@@andrewng4343 I mean he hadn't ran for a touchdown and probably hadn't attempted a run in 5 years, he had the whole defense fooled.

@@andrewng4343 I like how you stole this comment

Yeah. The amount of. Are you shitting me. Score the fucking touchdown! Moments that season was unbelievable

Gurley doesnt care about fantasy football he cares about his team so he can keep the clock running

@Jared Hutchins "didn't"?? I think you meant "din"

Andy Gygi Actually, it had nothing to do with protecting their own ego, or sparing the other team’s. It was to avoid punting out of their own end zone, and likely giving up a quick, easy touchdown to the other team. It wasn’t about anyone’s egos. It was simply the safest, smartest thing to do in that situation.

Chris Webster it really wasn’t that smart though, what’s the point, if the ball does get blocked and the redskins then scored they would’ve still been up 23 points with 20 seconds left in the game.

I love how if any one of these plays failed, these plays would be called the dumbest plays in nfl history lol

Best highlights!

Is that still a legit rule now? Did they change it?

right??

I'm a hawks fan and I agree

This is my favorite. Sold it !!

Ikr

I thought the same thing. I’m a Cards fan so the red-on-white is what distinguishes it for me but yea the reds are almost the same.

The CFL also has other rules more favourable to conceding a safety, namely it is a kickoff from the 35 (or the other team can simply take possession at their 35, the same distance from the endzone as the US 25 yard line) rather than a punt from the 20. You generally see about one inte tional safety per season in the NFL. They should probably be more common than they are late in games, but I can see the negative stats and likely publicity discouraging it. The ability to wipe 5-10 seconds off the clock and then step out of bounds is huge when the two points don't change the game (such as you are up by six)

Don't understand how that's listed as one of the smartest NFL plays. It's just a bootleg, with the QB keeping. So the QB ran the ball on a bootleg. That's pretty normal. How is that one of the smartest NFL plays? The fact that he faked the hand-off well isn't "smart," that's just good execution. Am I missing something?

@@rhmayer1 nah it's pretty standard. I guess they included it because he "sold" it?? I don't know, I don't see it as being a smartest play either.

@@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 It worked because he had a reputation as a quarterback with no real running ability. You also have to remember it was a very long time between his bootleg with the Volunteers and his bootleg with the Broncos--over a decade. He was aging, and had even less running ability than he had in the prime of his career. The running backs the team had were good, too... so why not just give it to the RB? Of course it was the perfect time to pull such a wily trick. No one was expecting it. And the offense sold it beautifully.

@@rhmayer1 It's smart because Manning later said it was supposed to beat handoff but he decided to keep it after the snap. So it was improv.

@@MarsJenkar OK so the play call was smart; nothing particularly smart about the play itself. That's cool. A smart play call counts. Though thedarkknight says it was an intended handoff, but decision to keep (which sounds to me like a normal bootleg option; which still could be a smart play call).

That was such a bullshit ruling they made on that play. Yes I'm a salty bills fan.

The only reason most of these plays aren’t considered dumb is that they were executed well and the opposing team had no answer. They’re a decent block or a slightly fumbled lateral away from “What were they thinking?”

The showboating dropping the football before the endzone plays are the dumbest of all.

So, basically just a Leon Lett compilation

The Russel Wilson throw instead of running it w/ Beastmode

@@zomell81_97 Eh, the defense was keying on Beastmode, so throwing it instead wasn't that dumb. It just didn't work out well because the Pats defender did his homework beforehand and recognized the play and made the perfect move on the ball.

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I had that happen many years ago when I was running a fantasy contest during the playoffs. I'm going through the game stats the next morning and there's a TD pass and TD reception for guys who weren't even on my player lists.

I like how Peyton Manning running with the ball is considered one of the smartest football plays ever

This

Or when he lined up in the c gap?!

Where are Polamalu’s snap count-timed stuffs at the 1 yard line?

no. "That one colts play" was NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE SNAPPED!!