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MERGED: Jaws still thinks the Wildcat is a "gimmick"

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Monday Night Football announcer Ron Jaworski is the latest to weigh in on the formation. Appearing on ESPN radio this morning, an interview helpfully passed along by old PFT friend Michael David Smith of FanHouse, Jaworski said that while the Dolphins run well out of the Wildcat it is still "a gimmick and a gadget" that won't ever help a team win a championship.

"Clearly, no one does it better than the Miami Dolphins, but I really believe that at the end of the season they're going to have to find a way to get some explosive plays out of the passing game," Jaworski said. "It was crystal clear in the Colts' game, they controlled the ball 45 minutes but when you run the football that well you're not going to score a lot of points."
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/16/jaworski-disses-wildcat-as-a-gimmick/

Here are the rushing stats of our base formation and the Wildcat formation:

Wildcat & Wildpat formation rushing stats -

45 carries - 300 yards - 6.7 ypc

Base formation rushing stats -

138 carries - 585 yards - 4.2 ypc

There is a major improvment of 2.5 ypc, but we still run well out of the base formation. We are averaging 4.8 ypc all together. So I think Jaws is way off base.





Your thoughts?
 
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I don't get it.... a gimmick takes your opponent by surprise....
Everyone sees the wildcat coming. there's no surprise to it.
 
Flapping his narrow-minded Jaws about nothing. It wasn't the great running game that lost to the Colts, but the mistakes. 'Gimmick' is poor label for multiple reasons. Even so, it doesn't imply ineffectiveness or predict longevity.
 
I like Jaws and his insight, but considering his perspective is that of a QB and that the WC somewhat neuters that role, I think he's reacting, on the gut level. Now compare that to Grudin, a SB winning coach who hit some rough times afterwards and appreciates that the bottom-line is just about scoring points. When it comes to how that's done, he's got no horse in any race and gushes over the WC. So it's a matter of a limited vs a big picture perspective IMO.
 
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Probably the dumbest comment that I ever heard from Jaworski. Lack of a passing game isn't the fault of the wc, separate issue. The wc plays to our strengths with ronnie, ricky, the mauling OL and good blocking TE's. Jaws talks about it as if we don't have a base offensive package, which is just stupid. If he wanted to criticize Ginn, Pennington, the base offense, whoever, that's fine. But his point didn't make sense.
 
Jaworski disses Wildcat as a "gimmick"

Jaworski said that while the Dolphins run well out of the Wildcat it is still "a gimmick and a gadget" that won't ever help a team win a championship.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/16/jaworski-disses-wildcat-as-a-gimmick/

How about Florio standing up for the Dolphins? :woot:

My favorite line right here:

"The Wildcat can't be everything, but to say it can't be part of something seems quite silly given the evidence the Dolphins have provided over the last two seasons."
 
"What was he going to do with his timeouts?
Eat them on the way home"?

Ryan can eat and cry at the same time. I've never seen a pig do that.
 
It is not a gimmick, it is a formation. It would be like calling the shutgun formation a gimmick. Or even the no huddle offense.

People who don't understand it call it a gimmick, and those who can't stop it want it to go away because it beats them. A fake punt is a gimmick because it "surprises" you. A double reverse is a gimmick.

When the Dolphins line up, they are in the wildcat formation. The defense knows what is coming at them, and they just can't stop it. One or two trick plays a game is a gimmick, when you run something 16-17 times a game and it WORKS almost every time, it is a dominating formation. If people and teams hate it so much, just stop the play from being successfull and it will go away.

I heard all offseason about how the wildcat would die this year because team's had all offseason to prepare for it. Now that the season is here, not only does it still work, it works a lot better then it did last season. The Jets defense was supposed to be something very scary and everybody hyped them up. The Dolphins made that defense look like the Detroit Lions with the wildcat formation.

It is not a gimmick, it is a revolutionary formation. It is here to stay. Like the West Coast offense, the wildcat offense is for real and one teams may start adapting more.
 
Yes, because Jaws is the authority on championships... How many did he win again?
 
"but when you run the football that well you're not going to score a lot of points"


.....what?
 
Jaworski also was in love with John Beck, and we all know how that went.
 
Jaws just can't stand seeing the NFL turn back into power football, where run teams begin to dominate again. I don't think it would happen, but I think Jaws is scared as helll because if it ever did, he wouldn't have a job because he doesn't know crap about it. :chuckle:
 
I used to like Jaworski years ago. But the more the guys talks, the more he shows he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. He's the same guy that thought John Beck would be a franchise quarterback. And now he's talking about what it takes it win a championship? Hey Jaws, how many Super Bowls have you won? Oh yeah, that's right...none.
 
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