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Does anyone by chance have a clip of the flea-flicker that everyone is talking about? I would really like to see that. Its getting so much attention! Thanks
 
It was pretty far away to capture and it was right infront of there video crane. I was unable to capture it, maybe during TC I can do so
 
haha i awtched that agme we lost 41 38 i believe OT was it?

btw i avhen't heard much about this flea flicker ppl are tlaking bout...ne info plz?
 
There's a guy who does some of the football coverage over here and he keeps saying that 'toss to the runningback and then toss back to the quarterback' isn't a true flea flicker. He says a proper flea flicker is one where it's passed forwards to the receiver and he then tossed it back to another eligible ball carrier (Who is running a set pattern where his role is to receive the toss). Sorry if I've not described that terribly well but I hope you get what I mean. I guess that famous Randy Moss flick from a couple of years ago (Was it to Mo Williams for a TD?) is probably one of what I'm trying to describe (if you recall it).

Anyway, does anyone know if there's any truth to what that bloke keeps saying about the definition of a flea flicker? I'm just asking because it's been bugging me for a while.
 
3Ply Stagliano said:
There's a guy who does some of the football coverage over here and he keeps saying that 'toss to the runningback and then toss back to the quarterback' isn't a true flea flicker. He says a proper flea flicker is one where it's passed forwards to the receiver and he then tossed it back to another eligible ball carrier (Who is running a set pattern where his role is to receive the toss). Sorry if I've not described that terribly well but I hope you get what I mean. I guess that famous Randy Moss flick from a couple of years ago (Was it to Mo Williams for a TD?) is probably one of what I'm trying to describe (if you recall it).

Anyway, does anyone know if there's any truth to what that bloke keeps saying about the definition of a flea flicker? I'm just asking because it's been bugging me for a while.
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Nope, Im wondering where that guy got his info...what Moss did was just a WR reverse pass....
 
3Ply Stagliano said:
There's a guy who does some of the football coverage over here and he keeps saying that 'toss to the runningback and then toss back to the quarterback' isn't a true flea flicker. He says a proper flea flicker is one where it's passed forwards to the receiver and he then tossed it back to another eligible ball carrier (Who is running a set pattern where his role is to receive the toss). Sorry if I've not described that terribly well but I hope you get what I mean. I guess that famous Randy Moss flick from a couple of years ago (Was it to Mo Williams for a TD?) is probably one of what I'm trying to describe (if you recall it).

Anyway, does anyone know if there's any truth to what that bloke keeps saying about the definition of a flea flicker? I'm just asking because it's been bugging me for a while.
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I have always heard the flea flicker is the name in question. We always called the play you are talking about as the hook and lateral. The WR usually runs a hook pattern and will lateral the ball to another ball carrier.
 
Num1PhinsFan said:
I have always heard the flea flicker is the name in question. We always called the play you are talking about as the hook and lateral. The WR usually runs a hook pattern and will lateral the ball to another ball carrier.
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Oh yeah THAT play duh I was thinking of that one play near the goaline where Moss threw the TD to Culpepper but it got called back on penalty

Yeah that would be a hook and lateral...in American Football anyway
 
I've only known the flea flicker as the type of play shown (in the videos in this thread) myself but that guy was so adamant about it, I thought I would ask.

According to this, it's both.
 
3Ply Stagliano said:
There's a guy who does some of the football coverage over here and he keeps saying that 'toss to the runningback and then toss back to the quarterback' isn't a true flea flicker. He says a proper flea flicker is one where it's passed forwards to the receiver and he then tossed it back to another eligible ball carrier (Who is running a set pattern where his role is to receive the toss). Sorry if I've not described that terribly well but I hope you get what I mean. I guess that famous Randy Moss flick from a couple of years ago (Was it to Mo Williams for a TD?) is probably one of what I'm trying to describe (if you recall it).

Anyway, does anyone know if there's any truth to what that bloke keeps saying about the definition of a flea flicker? I'm just asking because it's been bugging me for a while.
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Sounds like a hook & ladder
 
3Ply Stagliano said:
I've only known the flea flicker as the type of play shown (in the videos in this thread) myself but that guy was so adamant about it, I thought I would ask.

According to this, it's both.
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I think it depends on if its behind the Line of Scrimmage or not. The QB can throw the ball to a WR behind the LOS and then get it back and throw it down field. I have always seen this called a flea flicker although its normal handed to a RB instead of throw to a WR.

If he throws the ball to a WR beyond the LOS and then that WR does a lateral to another WR then most people call it a hook and lateral.

Not that it really matter, but that is based on my playing/coaching experience.
 
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