Hail Mary Pass Before Halftime

Brenner Hayes · #1 01-09-2007, 06:25 PM

My apologies if this has been covered before or if the answer is obvious, but I can't for the life of me understand why a football team doesn't throw up a Hail Mary pass into the endzone if time is expiring right before halftime.

Can someone please explain this to me? Thanks!

THAY3R · #2 01-09-2007, 06:27 PM

They do, assuming they are not in field goal range and they are in hail mary range.

srjunkacct · #3 01-09-2007, 06:27 PM

Some teams are so awful at it that it might actually be negative EV (risk of injury, interception return for a TD, etc). Michigan, I'm looking in your direction.

CharlieDontSurf · #4 01-09-2007, 06:29 PM

NO did this succesfully this year

CieloAzor · #5 01-09-2007, 06:32 PM

Seems like they always do this unless they're fairly close to their own endzone. At that point, they're probably too concerned about a sack/fumble going the other way because the hail mary chances are so slim from that far back.

prohornblower · #6 01-09-2007, 06:38 PM

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they're probably too concerned about a sack/fumble going the other way because the hail mary chances are so slim from that far back.

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I know in Madden if I'm at mid-field or so I like to do a play-action bomb downfield with time expiring. But I am pretty sure I got blitzed once and my QB got nailed and fumbled it for a defensive return. That was when I realized that it wasn't as +EV as I thought. Now if I do it, I'll usually do it out of the shotgun, but that is too obvious.