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roy_miami

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Don't use it at all. I love the wildcat but certain games through the year we should park it, let teams waste practice time preparing for it and maybe other teams won't prepare as hard for it the following weeks. We should have parked it against Baltimore last year and New England would be my choice this year.

I'm sure Belichick has been dreaming up ways to stop it since last season and now thats he's seen what we've been doing with it this season you can be sure he's working extra hard on something now. Love him or hate him he is the most prolific coach in the NFL right now and we don't need him giving a blueprint on how to stop it just yet. What worries me is if he didn't come up with a way to stop it I think he would be using it more himself this season.

Let Belichick plan his whole defense on stopping the run then come out and pass the whole first half, Henne will have a few more games under his belt by then and if he's still playing half as good as he did vs the Jets I think he will be able to handle a high flying passing attack.
 
They won't be able to stop it anyway. New York was supposed to be a stout D and look what our OL did to them. NE front seven is not as good as New York's. I do think we still have a few tricks up our sleeve, but our best ball is played when we let our very good OL hit the defense in the mouth.
 
Nope. Don't park it until they stop it. If anything, tweak it just to mess with their heads.
 
roy_miami said:
Don't use it at all. I love the wildcat but certain games through the year we should park it, let teams waste practice time preparing for it and maybe other teams won't prepare as hard for it the following weeks. We should have parked it against Baltimore last year and New England would be my choice this year.

I'm sure Belichick has been dreaming up ways to stop it since last season and now thats he's seen what we've been doing with it this season you can be sure he's working extra hard on something now. Love him or hate him he is the most prolific coach in the NFL right now and we don't need him giving a blueprint on how to stop it just yet. What worries me is if he didn't come up with a way to stop it I think he would be using it more himself this season.

Let Belichick plan his whole defense on stopping the run then come out and pass the whole first half, Henne will have a few more games under his belt by then and if he's still playing half as good as he did vs the Jets I think he will be able to handle a high flying passing attack.
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This is what i dont understand with people. It is a formation, does a team like the colts shelve passing plays because they know the other team is gonna practice there BECK off to stop it? Hell no, the wildcat is just another formation not some little trick play, there is no difference in running base offense and letting them try to stop that, only difference is that ronnie and ricky arnt on field at same time. People need to get this "special play" outta their minds cause its not special when we run it 17times a game. ITS OUR REGULAR PACKAGE.
 
I dont know, I say dont fix what isnt broken
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I really cant see ignoring the high yards per play on a hunch. Just imagine the second guessing when the game is on the line, we need three yards and get two without even attempting the wildcat.

Honestly the wildcat has evloved, I want them to ride the wave as long as they can now that we have a deep passing threat. Even if all it does is force NE to keep 9 in the box and allow one of our receivers to get open down field it will be worth it.

I think the biggest key to that game is not our running game, its if we can put pressure on brady and force him to throw bad throws like he has been known to do this season.
 
roy_miami said:
Don't use it at all. I love the wildcat but certain games through the year we should park it, let teams waste practice time preparing for it and maybe other teams won't prepare as hard for it the following weeks. We should have parked it against Baltimore last year and New England would be my choice this year.

I'm sure Belichick has been dreaming up ways to stop it since last season and now thats he's seen what we've been doing with it this season you can be sure he's working extra hard on something now. Love him or hate him he is the most prolific coach in the NFL right now and we don't need him giving a blueprint on how to stop it just yet. What worries me is if he didn't come up with a way to stop it I think he would be using it more himself this season.

Let Belichick plan his whole defense on stopping the run then come out and pass the whole first half, Henne will have a few more games under his belt by then and if he's still playing half as good as he did vs the Jets I think he will be able to handle a high flying passing attack.
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So you think the best way to beat a team is to not do what you do best, isn't that the same thing as them stopping you stone cold. BB would love for CH to be the one that has to beat us and your plan would help NE out. You FORCE teams to stop you, make them sell out and it allows CH an easier time throwing against single coverage. You never take away your strength to try to fool a team!! NE is not NE of old we can definitely pound the rock and set up the pass just like the JEST's game.
 
We shouldn't have used it against the Ravens because our O-line couldn't run block for ****, and in all honesty, the WC wasn't effective except for gimmick plays last year (save for the Patriots game, when they had no idea it was coming).

To run an offense like the WC, you have to be able to run block at a high level. We couldn't do it last year; we can this year.
 
A couple of things wrong with this.

1-Its what we do best. Why take away your strength because the other team might be ready for it.

2-Did you see what Denver did to NE using the single wing formation? They kept them in a base defense all night and it nullified BBs "genius". Guys had to man up and make plays.

3-BB can scheme all he wants. You think the Jets didn't know that Ronnie was running to the right with the ball on the last TD Mon pm? Hes been running right since the WC started. They knew it, they still couldnt' stop it.
 
I think Josh McDaniels knows a thing or two about the New England defense as he was there last year.. And guess what, he started the game last Sunday attacking NE with Denver's new "wildhorse" package.

And it worked well.. That's good for us.
 
j-off-her-doll said:
We shouldn't have used it against the Ravens because our O-line couldn't run block for ****, and in all honesty, the WC wasn't effective except for gimmick plays last year (save for the Patriots game, when they had no idea it was coming).

To run an offense like the WC, you have to be able to run block at a high level. We couldn't do it last year; we can this year.
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This is exactly my point in a different light, Baltimore shut everyone's run game completely down so to run the WC really made no sense. We should have thrown alot more in that game, short, quick passes. This year's team is a little different in that we seem to have our run game at a whole new level. I would never go away from our run game.

NE doesn't play the run great so force them to stop it, don't help them by not running it.
 
LOL I thought he meant save the trick plays, which I think we should and will do, the MAJOR trick plays anyways (the pat white project). Yea idiotic thread, Rixonesque.
 
Do it until someone can stop it. With this O-line it will be extremely hard to.
 
I'm more in favor of parking the punt formation.
 
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