Bad Religion Sanity » Slant Scissors play http://www.badreligionsanity.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:00:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 ‘Slant Scissors’ play helps L.T. slice and dice Raiders defense http://www.badreligionsanity.com/slant-scissors-play-helps-lt-slice-and-dice-raiders-defense/ http://www.badreligionsanity.com/slant-scissors-play-helps-lt-slice-and-dice-raiders-defense/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:34:07 +0000 Jason http://www.badreligionsanity.com/?p=142 Chris Jenkins (Contact)

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson runs by Oakland’s Ricky Brown in the fourth quarter Sunday.
K.C. Alfred/Union-Tribune

OAKLAND – In the end, inevitably, it got back down to child’s play. LT vs. the Raiders. Rock? Paper? Scissors?

Scissors, it is.

In the Chargers’ vernacular, actually, the play that LaDainian Tomlinson used this time to continue his personal vexation of the Oakland Raiders was called “Slant Scissors.”

Twin tight ends Antonio Gates and Brandon Manumaleuna did the pinching, turning their blocked victims inward on the right side, and Tomlinson did the cutting with a precise turn outside for a 41-yard touchdown.

“Big hole,” said Tomlinson, who was untouched until he was well inside the 10-yard line and still cruised in. “If you can’t get through that hole, you don’t need to be playing football.”

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