your link doesn't work. here you go:

http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2010/10/miami_dolphins_created_the_wil.html

 

Don't get me started on the Wildcat. There have been quite a few direct snaps to Brown this year. Few offered the counter (jet sweep) or an unbalanced line.

That's not the Wildcat.

 

This is probably the truest comment I have seen on the forum all year. Indeed, we have not run the true wildcat since the middle of last season. The real reason it has been reduced to a laughing stock is because we have reduced it to that on our own. Dan Henning didn't create the wildcat as the article suggests either. The direct snap and the other variations of the same formation has been a part of football lore for about 80 years.

You can surely bet that if Henning and Sporano were tricky enough to develop these direct snap plays in our offense with such success - they also know that they are really not running it. All they are really doing is lulling the league to sleep so when they pull it out next time it actually works and surprises someone. If I can draw 'flea flicker' and 'hook and lateral' plays for the wildcat you can bet that Henning already has them in the playbook just waiting for the right time.

Remember; it would take nothing for us to line up in traditional shotgun and then switch it the wildcat formation in one second. Combine that with a 'tackle eligible' in the redzone and you will really have something. All we are really doing with the wildcat is "hoodwinking" and pretending that it is dead. I think they are saving all of that for when we get the bugs ironed out on offense. You can bet that we will see the REAL wildcat again when the time is right, because we sure as hell haven't seen it in almost 12 games.

 

PSSST.. Miami did not "create" the Wildcat.

They only made it "sexy" after the win vs NE.

Teams have been playing with the RB/WR under center for a while.

 

pretty universally known miami brought it to life in the nfl.

but keep trying to be a jackass, it fits your already STELLAR stereotype.

 

Expanding on that; this begs a far deeper question. Why would you ditch unbalanced lines, pulling guards, and the wildcat when you are having such success with them? In fact, we really haven't had those types successes since Parcells began reducing his role and moving Ireland into the forefront. Just saying, why ditch the good stuff?? The offense it totally different from when we took the division two years ago.

 

We ran inverted veer against the Patriots.

 

stupid move imo to shelve the pure wildcat with ricky on the Jet..

 

:( too bad
its fun to watch wildcat, especially if youre not a fan of the team thats using it

 

Very true. It's been around for about 80+ years :yes:

 

It looked pretty "sexy" on Oct 12, 2009 as well.

 

Cleveland.com


So random. But yeah, the Wildcan't is gonna see the scrap heap soon.