Zay Flowers: Risk of Diving for the End Zone in Football

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - And let's for one moment here,

00:05 talk about Zay Flowers and the game that he had.

00:08 'Cause I talked about that prop last week too.

00:10 I thought it was really low and I didn't play it this week.

00:13 I didn't play the over on it,

00:14 but I wish, kind of wish I stuck to my guns,

00:18 but the weather thing kind of scared me off.

00:19 And a lot of people said, I don't know the weather

00:21 and this, that, and the other.

00:22 And Mark Andrews is coming back and I'm like,

00:24 Mark Andrews, by the way, was like a shell of himself.

00:26 He was not a hundred percent in this game.

00:28 And I'm sure, I'm not sure why coaches do that sometimes.

00:30 But anyway, I say all that to say that

00:33 I had a former NFL player text me during the game.

00:36 And I'm just going to put it out there as is.

00:38 I'm not going to provide any commentary on it.

00:40 But he said to me, Zay Flowers is a me guy.

00:44 Said, what do you mean?

00:45 He goes, you never, ever lunge and dive for the end zone

00:49 unless it's fourth down.

00:50 And I thought about that.

00:54 And I mentioned it to a couple of other

00:55 former collegiate level football and NFL players

00:57 that I know and I said, yeah, that's right.

00:59 You don't dive for the end zone unless it's fourth down.

01:02 Like that's a, I want to get the touchdown thing,

01:04 not I want to preserve the ball and everything else.

01:07 Because look what happens when you dive.

01:09 You put ball security at risk.

01:11 Now, I'm not saying that's the reason

01:12 the Ravens lost the game,

01:13 but it certainly was the biggest moment of the game

01:18 for him not to get in the end zone there.

01:20 - Interesting. Okay.

01:21 You know what?

01:22 I agree with that kind of philosophy

01:26 in playing the sport of football,

01:27 especially because the risk you're taking

01:29 if you fumble the ball and it goes out of bounds,

01:31 we've seen it how many times now?

01:32 We actually talked about,

01:34 do they need to change that rule?

01:36 But Mark, a lot of guys have that issue.

01:39 I think a lot of guys are technically, you know,

01:42 quote unquote, me guys in terms of diving for the end zone.

01:45 Zay Flowers being one of them is what it sounds like.

01:49 And yeah, maybe some other guys need to kind of

01:51 read that handbook, so to speak.

01:53 (upbeat music)

01:56 (bells chiming)

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