So you are suggesting that players make plays? That's crazy talk.
From my experience. That's just something I've noticed though. Like, when the ball hits a CB in the hands or whatever. They can actually catch that. It's called an 'interception.' I think if you get one, you can keep it and then run plays of your own, or something. Here's another one: a ball that gets stripped out of a QBs hand before he's throwing it can actually be covered by a player on the defense. It's not illegal.
WRs are allowed to catch balls on 3rd and short in must-win games. I mean, you have to coach them to do it, but it's allowed. You can also beat division opponents by *not* extending your arms fully when you're open in the end zone and the backup-backup QB hits you perfectly. You can score a touchdown on a pass to a RB, but not if the WR on that side is blocking downfield before the catch. You can win overtime games if your backup-backup WLB knows his responsibilities at the snap. Or if your FS isn't coached to lose his feet in coverage.
You're allowed, for example, to tackle the guy you kick off to, if you want to win the game. You can not get run all over when your backup-backup DEs are on the field.
There's, like, all sorts of things players can do to win games, apparently. It's not as easy to look at them and criticize those plays, though, as it is to just say we should have done the opposite of what we did for every play that doesn't work. Run it on 3rd and short? Should have thrown it. Throw in on 3rd and short? Should have run it. Throw a pick-6? I mean, another pick-6? "Why do the coaches keep calling those plays?" See? That's pretty easy.
Meanwhile, the players who are actually better than the ones they're playing against get back in the lineup and the team magically starts coaching better. What's the logical conclusion? That's right: Tony Romo is also the OC and must be calling the plays. Because, you know, they're working now when the reads are right and the balls are going to the players who are actually open.
