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It was a Shovel Pass Type of Weekend, a True Homage to Andy Reid
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If you watched the Penn State game on Saturday night, or the Eagles game Sunday afternoon, or even the Giants game, you saw a red zone shovel pass for for a touchdown. One was ugly as hell and the other two very nice:
Absolute sicko stuff at the goal line. The Oregon player, Jamari Johnson, ran into two of his linemen and somehow spun his way in for the overtime score. The Eagles’ pull was perfectly timed, and slipped Dallas Goedert through for his second score of the game. Then the Jaxson Dart shovel had that sprint right element to it.
That was Big Red’s bread and butter 20 years ago. I swear he ran that red zone shovel pass every other play. Sprint right, power shovel with Donovan McNabb under center. Number five always seemed to be moving to his right and throwing that pass with his left hand. There’s video of Mike Vick doing the opposite way as well, since he was a lefty, so it was sprint left, power shovel. And Andy Reid certainly has used in KC as well. It’s one of those plays where then it works, it looks amazing, and when it doesn’t, you want to take the Bad Call Brick and throw that thing at the TV. The brick was fine back then because all of the TVs were huge and sturdy, but the BCB would break a smart TV nowadays.
For a walk down memory lane:
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