I'm sitting here watching some football and I see Josh Cribbs take a direct snap for the browns, but it doesn't mount to anything. Then I see a highlight come up and some Owens guy for the jags takes a direct snap for a long TD. What a bunch of crap, the rest of the NFL is copying us.
Nothing to get upset about, the NFL is a copycat league. I would have been more surprised to see someone not try it after the success we had with it last week. I'm excited about the formations proliferation. It adds a new dimension to the game. And it's nice for us to be trendsetters for a change.
too bad we wont use that again... Oh you will see it, but Im betting one of these times were going to toss it to the Quarterback who takes it in for a touchdown.. Also I think we will show it again not next week, but sometime and it will be a different play not the same.. So copy it, whatever.. Just hope oour own defense does not get burned with it!!!!
i just dont think there are that many teams that have the personal/patience/practice to run that formation successfully in the NFL
It was bound to happen. Its fine. It shows me who the proactives vs. the reactives in this league. No biggy.
I'm sure the fans of Arkansas were saying the same thing last week when they saw us use it. Miami wasn't the first team to use that play or use direct snaps and they won't be the last. Football is a game of adaption and people are constantly borrowing ideas from each other, especially if something really works the way it did on Sunday.
thats exactly what i was thinking! whens the last time we've heard of teams trying to copy what we do?? Its a refershing change IMO
You're right about that. Along with finding new wrinkles to use out of that formation, we need to be working hard to figure out a way to stop it on defense. Since we had so much success against a very good defense with the 'Wildcat', you can be sure that teams are going to be coming at us with a version of it. The first time we see it in a game... which will likely be against the Chargers... we better stop it. One thing to remember, though... there aren't many offenses that have Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams. You can't run that formation with just any two guys. San Diego, New Orleans, and Dallas could certainly pull it off.
You have to assume with the time the offense has spent perfecting it, Pasqualoni and the defense have had plenty of time to learn how to defend against it, certainly more than any team competing, and preparing on the fly, week to week, will see.
If you're talking about JAX, then yeah... it was a direct snap out of a punt formation on 4th and 4, and the runner had a lead blocker. It wasn't what we ran at all. What JAX ran was the 'Mildcat'.
Still didnt see anyone score 5 tds with it. Geez, we did that our first try. We'll probably get 10 next time.
I think we will use it again but not as often as we did against New England. Its a formation not an offense.
The Raiders ran the play several times last year as well. It's not a 'new' formation, it dates back to before the forward pass, but it's not been run with such success as we had by many teams. Arkansas, as someone else said, was the last football team (pro or college) to run it with the type of success as we had...it does take the right combination of personnel though...and it can be defensed...the key is the flow of the LBs...if they are fooled, it works well...
I just like how opposing DC's now have to spend extra time preparing for it while we might not even use it.
The other teams just paid us a compliment. Plus considerign the age of that formation us claiming that it was copied from us would be a little pot calling the kettle black.
The Jets have run the same package for 2 years. Also, I believe this package was used alot by Arkansas with Jones and McFadden