When the Dolphins were busy preparing for Sunday's game against the Patriots, coach Tony Sparano had specific instructions for quarterback Chad Pennington every time he lined up as a wide receiver in the team's Wildcat offense. 'I told him, `Just get the hell out of the way if you can, please,' '' Sparano said. ``If you've got to run off the field, then run off the field.'' It was not a knock on Pennington. Sparano didn't want his quarterback getting hurt. But Pennington's co-starring role in the wildly successful scheme couldn't have been more symbolic of the attention he has received since Good story! Miami Dolphins' Pennington taking command of offense
Yeah, not to mention he had an INCREDIBLE game himself... 226 yards passing and only 3 incompletions??? WOW!!! This offense should only keep getting better!
I think that one thing led to the other in the case of the Pats...Pennington had time to throw, partly because the run game was working, even before and without the Wildcat formation, and partly because the OL was doing a much better job than the previous two weeks. The key was time to throw, lanes to throw in and running game working. With all that going right, and his penchant for accuracy everything clicked... Either way, it was nice to see...
Nice Read. It sure was nice to see him have a good game and take some shots downfield. Nice to get some of the receivers involved anyways. Hopefully that trend continues. we definately need it to.
Nice story, in all of the Ronnie hoopla, it is easy to miss how efficient Chad Pennington was this past Sunday. Now looking forward, I like the fact that he is finding "his" guys in Greg C and Anthony Fasano, for a young offense that is a key event.
Nobodies mentioned it because of the success of the wildcat formation, but we ran a lot of 4-5 wideout formations, with the WRs, TEs and RBs, we really spread out that NE defense...that's when CP had the most success. I'm guessing a lot of teams are going to be using that against them, they really had big problems with it.
Really? I always thought that you just couldn't be the first to touch the ball if you ran out of bounds without being touched.
You can run out of bounds as long as you have a set legal formation with the right number of guys on the line of scrimmage, when the ball is snapped. The only thing Pennington could not do is run off the field and then run back onto the field to catch a pass, or take a flea flicker. He cannot touch the ball if he goes out of bounds.
