Turnover On DownsĪnother common use of this play occurs when a turnover on downs situation is looming. You may have plays with a higher probability of success but these plays will take up too much time. There is no other play in the playbook that can get the ball into the end zone faster than a Hail Mary. Time is arguably the biggest factor in attempting this pass. But why do teams decide to run this play instead of one of the many others they use to score touchdowns throughout the game? Below are a few reasons why Hail Marys are the play of choice when desperate. We know a hail mary is a desperation play. This makes it very difficult to pull one off successfully. NFL defences have specific plays and personnel ready to defend against hail marys whenever they arise. When a hail mary occurs there is no question of what play is coming. This is an incredibly low number but is fairly expected due to the desperation of the play. Since hail marys have become commonplace in the NFL only roughly nine percent of Hail Mary’s have worked successfully in the NFL. This goes to show that the majority of Hail Mary’s come out of desperation. The fact that the average hail mary travels of 44 goes to show that most teams are not in field goal range. Keep in mind the passing yardage in the examples above considers the total yardage the ball travelled not the distance from the line of scrimmage. The average hail mary distance since 2009 has been 44.7 yards past the line of scrimmage. A last-second pass was thrown to receiver Drew Pearson.Īfter the game when Staubach was interviewed about the pass he said “I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary.” This sentence coined the term and established the first use of this term in football history. The pass was thrown by hall of fame quarterback Roger Staubach. Those are the replacement refs for you.The first Hail Mary pass ever thrown was on December 28, 1975.
To sum things up, we can say they called penalties where ones didn’t belong, and didn’t call them when they should have.Ģ4 penalties, 245 yards, and one inexplicable call to give Seattle the game. They let Sidney Rice get away with a pass interference.
They took an interception away from the Packers on a b.s. They missed a Golden Tate push-off earlier on the Hail Mary that should have been an offensive pass interference. The brutal call to end the game was the culmination of several awful calls by the referees. In case you still don’t believe that Jennings had control of the football before Tate, look at this image: If the ball is muffed after simultaneous touching by two such players, all the players of the passing team become eligible to catch the loose ball. It is not a simultaneous catch if a player gains control first and an opponent subsequently gains joint control. If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. Rule 8 Section 1 Article 3 Item 5 of the NFL rule book states: The problem is that Jennings had control of the ball first before Tate grabbed it, which by rule means it was not a simultaneous catch. The officials ruled that Tate and Jennings had a simultaneous catch, which goes to the passing team. As is the case with all scoring plays, the officials had to review the call.Īfter reviewing the play, they awarded Golden Tate with a touchdown catch to put Seattle ahead 13-12, and by rule, Seattle had to kick an extra point to make it 14-12. One referee thought the game ended with Green Bay winning 12-7, but another signaled touchdown. And as you can see in the image below, the referees disagreed on the ruling of the play: It was only after Jennings had the ball that Tate seemed to wrestle it from him.
He possessed it and appeared to control the ball. Most fans, media members, commentators, and impartial viewers agreed that safety M.D.
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