Hurry-up offense

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The Hurry-up Offense (Hurry up: Hurry up ) is a tactic of the offense in American football . The attacking team shortens the time between the individual moves in order to save time and give the opponent less opportunity to change players and to prepare for the next move .

variants

There are two variants:

  • Two-Minute Drill : this variant is usually used shortly before the end of the second or fourth quarter when the team in possession of the ball still wants to score. After the obligatory two-minute warning , more passes are made, which enables more immediate space gain. In addition, the clock can easily be stopped: if the throw is incomplete, it is automatically stopped, and if the throw is successful, the ball carrier can quickly run into touch.
  • No-Huddle Offense : the attacking team deliberately refrains from discussing the next move in the huddle , the move is only announced at the line of scrimmage .

The 1958 NFL Championship Game , in which quarterback Johnny Unitas led the Baltimore Colts from 86 yards to the field goal , which saved Baltimore into overtime, was the hour of birth of the two-minute drill . Since then, the two-minute drill has established itself in all NFL teams.

In the early days of the NFL, the no-huddle offense was a tactic that was only used when behind. But in the 1980s, the Cincinnati Bengals from head coach Sam Wyche under quarterback Boomer Esiason deliberately introduced the no-huddle offense as a strategy for the whole game. In the 1990s, the Buffalo Bills of Head Coach Marv Levy and quarterback Jim Kelly came with their "K-Gun" called No-Huddle Offense four times in a row in the Super Bowl , the New England Patriots of Head Coach Bill Belichick in the 2000s and quarterback Tom Brady and the Indianapolis Colts of head coach Tony Dungy and quarterback Peyton Manning won six times and once with their respective versions of the no-huddle offense.

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  1. ↑ Greatest game ever played , profootballhof.com
  2. ^ No-Huddle Rule Wasn't An Easy Snap for Esiason , New York Times
  3. ↑ Bills no huddle not return of K-Gun ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , buffalobills.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buffalobills.com
  4. ↑ Patriots going no-huddle can drive defenses mad , Boston Globe
  5. ↑ Broncos switch to Peyton Manning's no-huddle offense ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Indianapolis Star  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indystar.com
  6. ^ Bill Pennington: Tom Brady Refreshes His Legacy With a Fourth Super Bowl Title. In: NYTimes.com. The New York Times, February 1, 2015, accessed January 5, 2015 (English): “Late in the game, Brady used the formula that worked so well early on, mixing runs up the middle with short play-action passes out of a no-huddle offense. "

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