How to Use play-action pass in a Sentence
play-action pass
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Williams found Hall on a play-action pass to give the Panthers the 17-3 lead.
—Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024
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The play was designed to be a play-action pass in the flat to fullback Khari Blasingame.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
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On the first play of the drive, Kelly dialed up a play-action pass.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
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And that leaves the secondary exposed to a play-action pass.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
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Denbrock and Guidugli could draw up a play-action pass deep to Pierce on the first play.
—Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2020
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The Ravens will run a play-action pass off their outside zone look.
—Lance Reisland, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2022
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Like the jet sweeps that helped open lanes for Gurley by the mere threat and the play-action passes for Goff.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2019
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The 91-yard, play-action pass was set up with a fake handoff to Bigsby.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 1 Nov. 2020
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Payton Thorne will light you up with a play-action pass.
—Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
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Cuenca used a play-action pass, rolled out of the pocket and found Beard on a 31-yard pass to cap the drive with a TD and a 7-0 lead.
—Eric Bem, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Sep. 2019
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And even if that works, can the secondary hold up against play-action passing?
—Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2017
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Shanahan didn’t opt for a play-action pass with the Rams overplaying the run.
—Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
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Below is a third-and-1 play-action pass from the Seahawks against the Falcons.
—Lance Reisland, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2022
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With the score tied at 3 in the second quarter, the Lions ran a play-action pass on first down from their 39-yard line.
—Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2020
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For a wide-zone run team like the Bengals, Brown could excel at running the post route down the field on a play-action pass.
—Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2021
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First, Brown got open downfield on a play-action pass for a 62-yard touchdown.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2020
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The first part of that scoring surge came when Olave caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Justin Fields off a play-action pass.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 14 Sep. 2019
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His first completion was a play-action pass to running back Patrick Laird for a 2-yard gain out of the end zone.
—Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2020
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McCarthy found Corum on a play-action pass to get the day started.
—Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
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Two plays later, Thorne found Hunt wide open on a play-action pass for a 12-yard touchdown.
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2021
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Penn State will attempt to run a play-action pass and use tight end Brenton Strange to pull and block him from the backside.
—Lance Reisland, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
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The Trojans will have to run the ball and grind out drives, while also hitting on a few play-action passes.
—Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2017
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This Huskies team must establish the run early and often to set up the play-action pass.
—Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 19 Nov. 2019
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The Falcons run lots of stretch zone plays on offense, and are very effective with the play-action pass.
—Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2017
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Ten of Ricard’s 11 targets came on the same basic play design: play-action pass, throw to the flat.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 7 Sep. 2020
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The play-action pass opens everything up for us, so to get the run game going in LA was pretty good.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 21 Feb. 2020
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That could open up play-action passes against the linebackers and secondary.
—Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
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For this offense to be effective, the Ravens need to have some balance and rely on the play-action pass.
—Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2023
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The Owls had just picked up a first down when quarterback Sam Glaesmann rolled out of the pocket on a play-action pass.
—Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
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That value shone through early and often against the Lions, who bit on two play-action passes and were burned both times.
—Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2024
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