Why do coaches overthink play calling?

Everyone wants to get cute on the goal line nowadays. It needs to stop

Sark is a jeanious playcaller

I will die on the hill that RBs and WRs need to learn to throw the ball out of bounds on blown up plays. RB took a 7 yard loss, if he had thrown it away there are 2 outcomes; an incompletion or a 5 yard penalty for OL blocking down the field and a replay of downs. Both are better than a loss of 7 yards and a loss of downs yet it is almost NEVER done. I don’t get it.

Sark fricked up. he brought in Arch on 4th and 1 earlier and then refuses to bring him in on the 1 yard line with the game on the line

Toss sweep is dependent on WR’s blocking and for the most part they usually suck at it. Dumb play call there

The problem with your scenario is that if the ref decided it was intentional, they could call it intentional grounding. A WR or RB is not given the same protection as the QB in throwing the ball away.

So you get the spot and loss of down no replay of down.

QB sneak keeps you in the game. Instead he calls a toss from pistol. Genius…

But they are usually out of the pocket and even if they call intentional grounding, it’s no worse than getting tackled for that loss.

If you put in Arch, or anyone really, and run a sneak 4 times in a row, I’d give you a 99.99% success probability. Why does anyone try anything different?

Being cute always comes back to bite you in the arse on the GL.

Line up in 13 personnel, hell, 22 personnel (I formation) , and just run it right down the defense's throat and be done with it. It's not that fricking hard.