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Gase is throwing it all out on the table this year with all these gadget plays. It’s wildcat with so much more. I believe that’s why he wanted all these players who play multiple positions from Wilson to McEvoy(still waiting to see if he implements him in once he’s good with the system) Jack of all trades types. This is going to be an interesting season to watch with Inspector gadget calling the plays.
 
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I believe that this is going to be key against the Pats.

We seem to fare well when we keep the off balance. Aka Wildcat...

How can you game plan against Wilson etc? It’s like using your hands to defend yourself in a knife fight
 
After thinking about it and the criticisms last 2 games I honnestly think he is still trying to figure out his own offense.

1st two games, Tannehill holding on too long for plays to develop, ends up eating a bunch of sacks. Not good, Gase needs to adjust. Does so by calling more screen passes this game. Frustrating on many plays but understandable if you want to protect the QB.

It looked like Oakland took their foot off the gas in the 4th with their pass rush allowing Gase to drop in a follery play like the one we saw. If that was his gameplan the whole time he is an evil genius.

Call screens and check downs all first half then when they start biting drop in a trick play is kind of sneaky.

Of course, it could just be luck, but as a fan watching the first half play calling was just confusing and almost infuriating. Im curious to see how he calls next week's game and if those screen plays continue. The run game today is not gonna do it, so hopefully it was just a fluke.
 
I think those 2 TD should’ve been put under the run column but since it was a shovel forward it’s considered a pass.
 
It was refreshing to see aggressiveness today. It took a while for it to surface, but when it did, it was beautiful.

Tannehill played a great game today. His throws were on the money. His run for the first down was huge.

And the pass blocking was tremendous, admittedly against a weak pash rush. Not sure what happened with the running game.
 
I think a ton of what Gase does is give certain looks early in order to set things up for later. I made fun of Gase during the pre-season saying that he's holding back his magic plays. He was holding back magic plays and they're beautiful!
 
Those are shovel passes and have to be statistically scored as runs (spent the last 30 years as a college football statistician and then a sports writer keeping stats at high school games). They have to be either a run or a pass, and if they hit the ground you wouldn't score them as runs. It's a shovel pass, just not the type you see frequently.

We had a team I covered a lot that's had a lot of success running those jet shovels for three or four years. I wondered how long until you started to see more of it in the higher levels. Actually, very smart and safe play. All the benefits of the jet sweep but if you drop it you don't lose yardage. It's just an incomplete pass. Pretty safe play with big-play potential.
 
I saw the Cheifs running the shovel stunts and wondered why our offense didnt use that more with our speed. Great play calling when it works. But with no run game, and sacrificing the lows of short throws and bubble screens eased the defense into getting burnt on these plays.

I have been very critical on Gase's playcalling until today, when it worked, when we couldn't run at all.
 
I wont consider it a gadget, but I hope at some point we find a way to fake the swing pass into a different play. so far that and the stretch run are the two biggest not factor plays it looks like we call that teams are sitting on. one good thing though is, if not for the refs ghost penalties, the base offense looked pretty dang good. a shovel pass is not a gimmick play, the only gimmick was the Wilson to grant play. its just we haven't had anyone in the past that could run it. Landry isn't fast enough, that's not stills type of play, dvp would get broke and that's not a play for him either. it works best with the fast smurfs, a) they are fast b) they are smurfs so they get lost behind the line when cutting across.
 
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After thinking about it and the criticisms last 2 games I honnestly think he is still trying to figure out his own offense.

1st two games, Tannehill holding on too long for plays to develop, ends up eating a bunch of sacks. Not good, Gase needs to adjust. Does so by calling more screen passes this game. Frustrating on many plays but understandable if you want to protect the QB.

It looked like Oakland took their foot off the gas in the 4th with their pass rush allowing Gase to drop in a follery play like the one we saw. If that was his gameplan the whole time he is an evil genius.

Call screens and check downs all first half then when they start biting drop in a trick play is kind of sneaky.

Of course, it could just be luck, but as a fan watching the first half play calling was just confusing and almost infuriating. Im curious to see how he calls next week's game and if those screen plays continue. The run game today is not gonna do it, so hopefully it was just a fluke.
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I think Gase's whole thing since he's been here is "win it in the 4th qtr". He's been quoted as saying that from his 1st game.

Would prefer to see faster starts, but the refs screwed us today... Miami runs a ton of mesh concepts and with the refs deciding to make some ridiculous offensive PI calls, not only did it scupper drives, it potentially also took out a chunk of the game plan...
 
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