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Andy Reid Wanted the Shovel Pass, but Settled for Corn Dog
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One of the Andy Reid Eagles plays my dad and uncles hated the most was the goal line shovel pass. I don’t know what the success rate was, but they always complained when Andy would run it near the goal line. Little did they know it would serve as a pseudo-setup for a Super Bowl-winning play more than 20 years later:
Andy Reid REALLY wanted to run the Power Shovel to McKinnon, but the 49ers converged on the Shovel and didn’t cover Corn Dog 😂 pic.twitter.com/ROgaHfE36n
— Coach Dan Casey (@CoachDanCasey) February 15, 2024
Translation: Andy thought San Francisco would have corn dog (fake motion) covered, since he killed the Eagles with it not once, but twice in last year’s Super Bowl. So if the Niners were ready for it, their wide alignment would open up some space for the inside shovel instead. But San Fran did not do that. They played narrow and went man-to-man on the outside, so Big Red hit ’em with the corn dog instead. And won the Super Bowl with it. For the second straight year.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com