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Post by dytmook on Dec 25, 2016 14:16:34 GMT -6
I wanted to make this a general question for both sides of the ball, but how many times have you had it completed for you? Against you? Any good stories about it?
When my brother was a jr his team hit a deep pass at the end of the half for a TD. It wasn't really a true hail mary, but a deep post opened up because I think the coverage got confused because our best receiver had kicked their butt the entire half. Ended up losing 42-28 after blowing 14 point lead at least once.
We also scored on at the end of the half on a bubble the QB checked to when we should have been throwing the hail mary.
I don't think I've ever seen one completed against us.
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Post by morris on Dec 25, 2016 14:26:57 GMT -6
This is a little realative due to arm strength. What is a Hail Mary for us would be an everyday throw for a lot of teams. We hit one just inside the front pylon to win. I remember when it happened I kept looking around for an official to say it was incomplete.
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Post by dytmook on Dec 25, 2016 16:24:44 GMT -6
Definitely different in high school ball but I'd say anything 25-30 yards out could count.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 25, 2016 17:14:54 GMT -6
We practice it every Wednesday. We actually do a last 3 play series. It never changes. If we have time for 3 plays from the -30 to +45, these 3 plays are what we are running. Our hail mary is not exactly like everyone else's. We designed it to go to a certain player.
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Post by jbfootball on Dec 25, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
We have completed our sprint out Hail Mary to the backside receivers twice in 2 years at the end of 1st half. Empty sprint to the right, stop and throw back to backside #2. Both times it was a fairly easy completion of 50 or so yards.
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Post by blackknight on Dec 26, 2016 10:58:05 GMT -6
2015. We were playing Butte College at Butte for what would be the conference championship. Last play of the game we have the lead and they have the ball on the -35. QB runs around avoiding the sack, launches a javelin type throw to the end zone. All I can see is their red shirts down by the end zone. They went nuts and I felt sick to my stomach.
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Post by mikeyg on Dec 29, 2016 0:26:34 GMT -6
Hail Mary for us was anything over 30 yards. Lol. Sadly our guys who had the smarts to be QB can only accurately throw up to 35 yards. Our C on the other hand could throw a 60 yard bomb accurately about 10 times before he started to get sore. Our Kicker was the same way. All the guys' with good legs were lineman. Our best Kicker was a 350+, couldn't move his feet if they were on fire, 4th string never gonna see a snap, 3rd string JV kind of kid. Our punter was also our G. We just slid our C over in his place and our DE was our deep snapper.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 30, 2016 7:26:50 GMT -6
We practice it every Wednesday. We actually do a last 3 play series. It never changes. If we have time for 3 plays from the -30 to +45, these 3 plays are what we are running. Our hail mary is not exactly like everyone else's. We designed it to go to a certain player. I don't mean to hijack the thread, but what are your 3 plays and how do you determine them?
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 30, 2016 12:28:54 GMT -6
We determine them based on our personnel. The third play is the hail mary. The first play is typically going to be our snag concept. The second play will be sprint out and get out of bounds. Then the hail mary.
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Post by rudyrude9 on Dec 30, 2016 12:33:40 GMT -6
Been apart of 5 completed for TDs. 2 at end of games for wins and 3 at end of halves. Never had one completed against us.
You get what you emphasize! We spend time on last play offense and last play defense every week. And that includes more than just hail mary. You better have a plan for when your 80 yards away and only have time for one play also.
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Post by fantom on Dec 30, 2016 13:17:15 GMT -6
When I was in HS we lost a JV game on a Hail Mary. JV games weren't a big deal. We played in the late Monday afternoon and there was only one official. On the last play the bad guys chucked one into the end zone. Their receiver catches it ON THE BOUNCE. The official is behind the QB and it's dark, though. All he sees is the receiver in the end zone with the ball. TD, game over, we lose.
There was one that ended better. In the regional championship game that we won by one point the QB threw it to their All American receiver. He falls down juggling the ball. He's laying on his back with the ball sitting on his belly. Just before he closes his hands on the ball our safety scoops it up. INT, game over, we win.
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Post by carookie on Dec 30, 2016 13:42:37 GMT -6
My kid brothers senior year in HS they hit the ol' TD, Onside Kick, Hail Mary to win a playoff game. Opponent was up by a FG and could've taken a knee but decided to tack on a final TD and run up the score. All this took place with less than a minute left in the game.
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Post by coachb5806 on Dec 30, 2016 21:12:19 GMT -6
I have one that still hurts...
My first year as a HC (2012) at 24 we were playing a district team. They were undefeated and ranked 3rd in the state. We hadn't beat this school in 25 years. We were 3-4. We went down and scored with 26 seconds left and get the two to go up 28 to 26. They complete some passes. They complete a pass and call timeout, stopping the clock with 0.2 seconds left. It was not a situation. We had worked. We backed off our coverage, put heels on the goal line and said dont jump anything.they snap the ball and air it out. Our soph safety comes flying up, jumps to knock the ball down, misses and their wr catches the ball at the 3 and walks in. We lost 32 to 28. We finished 4-6. If we had held on it may have been enough to make playoffs. They ended up making the semifinals.
That is one no one has forgotten.
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Post by knightfan64 on Dec 31, 2016 21:16:09 GMT -6
This year we're in a defensive battle we are trailing 9-6 (oddly enough no field goals (missed extra point for us, safety for them). Their homecoming and they are having their best season in YEARS, we get sacked on third down and have fourth and 20 on our own 22 with right at one minute to play.......bam 78 yard touchdown pass which really went about 30 in the air, other 48 our freshmen WR shake and baked the DBs and off to the races....wildest finish to a game I e ever experienced
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Post by tanavea on Jan 5, 2017 13:54:54 GMT -6
State Championship game against a team that we beat the year before in the championship. Down 6-10. 27 seconds seconds to go 80 yards. We make it the 33-yard line with 2.9 seconds left. We throw it up and and while in the air our receiver rips it out of the DB's hands. We won 12-10. This was in 2009.
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Post by dytmook on Jan 5, 2017 22:08:06 GMT -6
We actually had another one I just thought of. I was actually scouting while this was going on but I saw it on twitter and film later. In the 4th quarter we put in our heralded freshman qb. He led us back. Under two minutes left with our best fullback and rb we drive to their 40 but get pushed back to 4 and 22. Call 4 verts and just as the ball goes over their safety's hands our wr catches it, bobbles, stumbles and runs the last 25 yards into the end zone.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 6, 2017 10:09:32 GMT -6
Had a game this season. Tied with 80 seconds left in the game at the opp. 20. Ran ISV 5 plays in a row and scored with 4 seconds left in the game. I'm sure the fans had to think I was a complete idiot
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 6, 2017 20:58:56 GMT -6
Last play of the game. Post-wheel with our superstar RB on the wheel. Ball is perfect back shoulder, RB is in the spot wide open. He tries to catch it like a punt and it slips through his arms.
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Post by td4tc on Jan 10, 2017 18:33:43 GMT -6
Ask Aaron Rodgers. BTW, Love when ESPN guys say he throws the "hail mary" ball better than anybody. Sure, he has completed some beauties (including the push off OPI that changed the game vs the Giants) but really other than having a big arm and throwing it up there not sure how one NFL guy would technically be any better than another at actually throwing this.
More than a little luck involved. But they used to say Tiger Woods was lucky. Great players tend to make their luck.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 17:47:23 GMT -6
Had it completed against us once when we were already down by 50 as time was running out.
F--- that team's coach.
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Post by Coach Vint on Jan 12, 2017 16:53:31 GMT -6
Once when I was in my first year as a coordinator we got beat 42-6 by a very good team. It was 28-6 with 35 seconds to go and they threw a TD pass, then onside kicked. They recovered it and threw a hail mary to go up 42-6. After the game their head coach joked that he "had to cover the spread." The next year I circled that game on our schedule. My dad had retired from coaching and I called him before we played these guys the next year. I told him how we were going to beat the $**t out of them and run it up. He said, "if you really want to get under their skin, simply smile and take a knee. Then go shake their hand and say good game."
We were up 34-0 with about 8 minutes to go. We ran the ball using the clock and drove to the 3 with a just under a minute and a half to go. They had not timeouts left. I started to signal power and thought, "let's shove it up their *$$." The head coach I worked for said, "let's take a knee and call it good." We did. I smiled. We walked the line and shook their hands and said, "good game." It felt good.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jan 13, 2017 7:05:59 GMT -6
This was something I put down in my end of the year notes to work in our situational. We sort of worked on it this past season -- we do a 2 min/1 min/etc....situational thing once a week, but didn't specifically do a hail mary play.
Interesting that this was brought up, with the Packers game hail mary and the fact that it was around freezing and there were clouds in the sky; we ended up having a couple of snow days down here in the south. I turned Colin Cowheard and he talked about the situation with some guests-- Shannon Sharp, Chris Carter. It was interesting their take on the EXECUTION of the hail mary play.
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Post by petej83 on Jan 13, 2017 8:57:25 GMT -6
We work on our hail mary every Thursday along with other end of game situationals. It wasn't a hail mary but in our State Championship game we attempted a last second pitch throwback type play but couldn't get it back to the other side of the field. In a JV game this year, again not really a hail mary, we were down by one with like 15 seconds left on our own 12 when we got the ball. We ran one play and it was incomplete so there was about 5 seconds. We called our 3x1 formation and ran our single on an option route. He got a couple of steps on his guy and the QB laid it in there. The WR almost tripped and fell when he caught but regained his balance and went 88 yards for the TD.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Jan 13, 2017 9:04:13 GMT -6
We have had 3 go our way: 1 sent us into OT and we eventually won, the next one was we caught ended up short of the end zone but they were called for defensive holding and we kicked a FG for the win (it was at their place and I never question a gift), and the last one was our only score of a game this season..lost 49-7.
Had one go against us at a half this year and we stopped a 2 point conversion...lost 6-3.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 13, 2017 9:54:50 GMT -6
We practice them each week... have also been part of a team that had one win a playoff game to get us to the National Semifinals when I was in college:
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Post by newhope on Jan 13, 2017 10:15:44 GMT -6
Have hit a deep ball late to win (big upset to send us to the 3rd round of the playoffs) and had a deep ball thrown on us late to lose--but a true hail Mary, only once. We threw it at the half and Braxton Berrios, currently at Miami, was a freshman (and if you know him, you know he's not a tall receiver you throw to). We threw the ball deep, our taller receiver and the defenders went up, tipped it, and Braxton, who was laying back just as he was taught, dove and caught the tipped ball for the score.
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Post by SconnieOC on Jan 13, 2017 10:23:29 GMT -6
I completed one in high school from about the 40 (only ball I've ever thrown that far). Wasn't a true hailmary. Our fastest guy ran to the back of the endzone and our tallest guy ran to the front. The other 2 were decoys for a half roll. I don't know why they were even covered, absolutely terrible WRs. Anyway.. rolled out, threw it back, the 6'4 dude just went up over people and caught it. Was only to end the half, but was a big play for us. I was losing my mind, and my coach just told me to shutup and get to the locker room. He wasn't a real celebratory type guy.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jan 13, 2017 10:25:20 GMT -6
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Post by lmorris on Jan 21, 2017 16:49:29 GMT -6
I was sitting beside the endzone when Arkansas State hit a Hail Mary after the buzzer against Memphis, Euphoric experience. As for my teams prior to this season
Had one against us right before halftime kid catches it on the 2, holds it out to reach for the goal line and my kid tries to grab the ball instead of tackling.
Hit one ourselves last play of half 3 years ago ball under thrown in end zone, kid jumps up and reaches over defender to pull it back.
This year
Hit a game winner this year, 6 seconds on clock when ball snapped #1 running a comeback #2 running flag over the top beat the #1 team in conference that night by 2.
Hit the same route for TD right before half this year with 2 seconds on clock when ball was snapped.
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