The Kansas City Chiefs received the Super Bowl on Sunday with a play that seemed eerily acquainted to a pair of scoring performs from final 12 months’s Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
It seems it was the identical play.
In a postgame interview with NBC’s Peter Kinghead coach Andy Reid broke down the play that noticed Patrick Mahomes hit Mecole Hardman for a walk-off landing in time beyond regulation to defeat the San Francisco 49ers.
“We name it Tom and Jerry,” Reid mentioned. “It includes a pair individuals.”
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Why Tom and Jerry?
“They’re soiled little rats, canine gone it,” Reid mentioned jokingly. “So it was play. [Jerrick] McKinnon is a part of that. And then Pat has a learn.”
Chiefs used similar movement to attain on Eagles
The acquainted a part of the play is Hardman’s pre-snap movement, which is affectionally known as corn canine. It’s a redux of two performs that resulted in touchdowns throughout Kansas City’s win over the Eagles final season. It includes a receiver slotted extensive motioning inside pre-snap, then turning again towards the sideline on the final second in an effort to misdirect the defender in protection.
Here it’s in final 12 months’s Super Bowl subsequent to Sunday’s game-winning play.
In the instance from the Eagles Super Bowl, Kadarius Toney baited cornerback Darius Slay into operating inside, leaving him extensive open on the sideline for a landing that gave the Chiefs a 28-27 fourth-quarter lead. The Chiefs additionally used an analogous movement on a late landing move from Mahomes to Skyy Moore.
In Sunday’s instance, 49ers defenders Logan Ryan and Charvarius Ward each leaned inside when Hardman began his movement. Ward gave chase when Hardman turned again outdoors, however it was too late. Hardman had picked up sufficient separation to safe the game-winning landing.
‘For positive they will cowl corn canine’
That Hardman broke open stunned Reid. He informed King that the Chiefs applied the acquainted movement as a decoy. But when Hardman broke free, Mahomes knew the place to look.
“We constructed corn canine in saying, for positive they will cowl corn canine,” Reid mentioned. “They’ve seen it. We thought that will be disguise, pull an additional man on the market, and we will run the shovel in there.
“But they converged on the shovel. And corn dog worked out. They manned it up on the outside, and it worked.”
Reid acknowledged the troublesome spot during which the play put the 49ers.
“It’s laborious,” Reid continued. “You’ve obtained to sort of choose what you are gonna work on, what half you are gonna cowl. I’m not questioning them as a result of they’re too good to query. That group is phenomenal. It simply labored out in our favor the place we’re in a position to get the factor.”
The full identify of the play is: Tiger 12, Tom & Jerry proper, Gun journeys, proper bunch, F shuttle. Reid additional broke down the anatomy of the play with King, explaining that the “12” ingredient designates Hardman, who wears No. 12.
“Tiger 12, that places Mecole in and two tight ends, one operating again,” Reid mentioned. “Tom and Jerry proper. One-way play. We don’t have a whole lot of one-way performs, however that is it. It’s gun journeys proper bunch, F shuttle. And that offers you just a little corn canine with some mustard and ketchup.”
Corn canine defined
Why corn canine? Reid defined that ingredient of the play-call to King final season after it was efficiently used towards the Eagles.
“There’s nothing better than a good corn dog with some mustard and ketchup,” Reid informed King after final season’s Super Bowl win. This is peak Andy Reid.
Mahomes had choices on fourth-and-1 conversion
Reid additionally broke down one other key play, the fourth-and-1 run in time beyond regulation that Mahomes transformed with an 8-yard carry. He defined that offensive coordinator Matt Nagy drew it up, and Mahomes was desperate to run it with the Super Bowl on the road.
“Pat, he goes, ‘Listen, if I don’t have it, then I’m operating it,'” Reid mentioned. “‘I’ve obtained it lined. I need to go along with that play. I’m good with it.’ So we gave it to him, and he went off and did it.”
Reid confirmed that the play was an possibility, not a strictly designed run, and Mahomes was the third possibility. Travis Kelce was the primary possibility if the 49ers have been in man protection. The second possibility was depending on a number of elements. Mahomes opted for the third and saved the Super Bowl for the Chiefs.
