#2- Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Perhaps my favorite image of the 2013 Philadelphia Eagles season. At the 2 minute warning, 14 point lead on 4th and 12 the Eagles are trying to run out the clock against the Lions. Brent Celek makes a heady, unselfish play by sliding in bounds instead of running in for the easy TD:

But before we go there, we need to show how the Eagles set up this game-clinching play.

With 11:32 on the clock in the 4th quarter with the Eagles leading by 2 points the Eagles call a standard zone read run left with Bryce Brown. But of course the read-option is built-in. Celek is going to pretend to down block on the edge defender:

But instead releases on his route. Foles reads the unblocked DE who crashes down on Brown:

Pulls and keeps and with Celek drawing the safety downfield, Foles is has a lot of room to run:

Here's what it looked like. Note another key was the 3 WRs lined up on the top of the screen and with Celek running the clear out Foles had tons of room to run and ripped off a 20 yard gain:

Fast forward to the 2 minute warning and the Eagles are trying to "ice" the game. Same play, inside zone read. Except this time Celek takes on the edge defender. The key read as you can see from the dotted yellow line is #27. If he drops back to cover Celek, Foles is probably handing-off on 4th and 12. But as I suspect Chip expected, they bite hard on the run fake not thinking the Eagles would risk a passing play on 4th and 12 with a 14 point lead in a snow storm: