Stafford directing team right before spiking ball

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Just wondering, does anyone have an idea who Matthew Stafford was pointing at & looks to be urgently telling to get to the line of scrimmage right before he spikes the ball? Don't wish to call anyone out. Just really impressed with his leadership in that situation & how he helped the team get organized during a chaotic situation. Thx!
 
Just wondering, does anyone have an idea who Matthew Stafford was pointing at & looks to be urgently telling to get to the line of scrimmage right before he spikes the ball? Don't wish to call anyone out. Just really impressed with his leadership in that situation & how he helped the team get organized during a chaotic situation. Thx!

In his post game press conference he said he went to a "dark place" during that process.

Clearly, he's a competitor.
 
Think he was just being caught up in the moment and making sure everyone knew what was happening. But based on direction he was looking it’d probably have to be one or combo of Edwards/Noteboom/OBJ based on those being on left side when they line up for spike. Either way, don’t think it was anything bad just him making sure.

But one thing, great awareness for him to line up and still wait for the clock to get to 4 seconds for no hope of Bucs getting kick return.

Also this is cool….

View: https://twitter.com/kristopherking_/status/1485408361306890243?s=21
 
Think he was just being caught up in the moment and making sure everyone knew what was happening. But based on direction he was looking it’d probably have to be one or combo of Edwards/Noteboom/OBJ based on those being on left side when they line up for spike. Either way, don’t think it was anything bad just him making sure.

But one thing, great awareness for him to line up and still wait for the clock to get to 4 seconds for no hope of Bucs getting kick return.

Also this is cool….

View: https://twitter.com/kristopherking_/status/1485408361306890243?s=21


Awesome splice effect. Yeah that's the Dallas game I was referring to in another thread. I was thinking how familiar it looked as it was happening yesterday. Vintage Stafford!!

Looks like he was pointing at Michel who seemed to be going toward the opposite sideline for whatever reason. Everyone was running vertical he was floating horizontal.
 
refresh my memory since I can't recall it ever happening, but does the offense have to wait for the defense to get on their side of the LOS before snapping the ball?
 
refresh my memory since I can't recall it ever happening, but does the offense have to wait for the defense to get on their side of the LOS before snapping the ball?
No they can hike it and get them for offsides.
 
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No they can hike it and get them for offsides.
that's what I thought, but Stafford waited until last Bucs player strolled over to his side and then snapped and spiked
 
I think he was watching the clock. Waiting for it to hit 4 seconds.

The way the Rams executed that series they clearly worked hard on it in practice. The entire thing was textbook. McVay talks a lot about situational mastery and that is something the great teams have in common.
 
that's what I thought, but Stafford waited until last Bucs player strolled over to his side and then snapped and spiked
He was waiting for the clock to get down so there was no kick off required after the field goal.
 
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Ok. I have another question, and I'll ask it here instead of starting a new thread. What was Suh yelling at Stafford in the first half that led to the penalty? it looked really drawn out and angry.
 
Was also reading that McVay told Stafford to go into hurry up after Kupp's first catch on that drive even though he went out of bounds and stopped the clock. In doing this it caused the Bucs, who had no more timeouts, not able to set up their defense. Bowles called an all out blitz and not all of the Bucs knew it was an all out blitz causing the MLBer David to just stand there basically. May have been what let Kupp sprint right down the field past everyone. Was a nice bit of strategic thinking there.
 
I thought so too first glance but on replay looks like he was just waiting for our guys to be set and then looking straight at the clock.
Yup once he saw our guys get set he looks up a the clock and waits a couple more seconds before he snaps the ball and spikes it. Just coincidence that the last TB player was getting back onside at that moment. But the composure to make the throw, hurry everyone up to the line, make sure they're set, and still look up at the clock to wait as long as possible so its a walk-off FG. Just insane poise and late game comfortability. You can tell he's done that a lot before.
 
Ok. I have another question, and I'll ask it here instead of starting a new thread. What was Suh yelling at Stafford in the first half that led to the penalty? it looked really drawn out and angry.
He yelled "I'm going to fuck you up" because he thought Stafford kicked him. In reality, Stafford was just rolling through the tackle and used his legs a bit to keep Suh's weight from flopping on him it looked like to me. He certainly didn't kick him at all. So Suh was just being a whiny bitch who, of all people in the league, has zero right to bitch about anyone being dirty. Oh well, 15 yards and a touchdown later.... fuck Suh.
 
He yelled "I'm going to fuck you up" because he thought Stafford kicked him. In reality, Stafford was just rolling through the tackle and used his legs a bit to keep Suh's weight from flopping on him it looked like to me. He certainly didn't kick him at all. So Suh was just being a whiny bitch who, of all people in the league, has zero right to bitch about anyone being dirty. Oh well, 15 yards and a touchdown later.... fuck Suh.
I agree. It was kind of Judo move to clear him out vs. a karate kick . Might have caught him in the junk though, which gives any man the right to temporarily lose his shit.