There are tons of permutations out of that type of look. I always have to laugh when teams line up out of empty shotgun and 4 or 5 wide near the goal line, as if that is maximizing potential. Bill Walsh would be going nuts.
I have no idea how so many great plays from power looks get lost in the dust bin for no reason at all. The Patriots ran one on Monday Night that I have been begging for on Canes sites for at least a decade. I may have mentioned it here also, although I don't remember that specifically.
Kansas City in the early '90s with DeBerg and Christian Okoye used to make a living out of an emphatic fake toss to the right, with DeBerg spinning from left to right while executing the fake toss and then planting his feet immediately. Very little distance traveled by the quarterback. Then he would hit the tight end across the middle with a dart. The tight end was lined up standard formation left side. The flow of the fake toss would invariably take everyone in that direction and leave the tight end clean to break free of his man to the inside. It was unbelievable how many big plays the Chiefs got out of that look.
Truthfully, I thought it was unfair...like the league should find some way to outlaw or limit it. I was probably half serious.
No matter. The offensive coordinators seemingly ended it themselves. I hadn't seen that play in so many years I couldn't begin to name the last time.
Then New England broke it out on Monday Night, late in the game against the Chiefs. I believe it was 4th quarter. And nothing had changed at all from decades earlier. Brady faked the toss...planted immediately... and hit Gronkowski for a huge rambling gain.
