That Wildcat is ****. Let it go, man. If the Wildcat was so effective, other teams would be using it more than what they do. By the time everyone had figured out our Wildcat, we were down to using it SIX times a game. What the hell are we going to do the other 60 plays we might run during a game? You dudes have got to let that Wildcat die already. We need to be attacking the middle of the field in the passing game and throwing the football downfield like every other team in the league who gets to the playoffs and Super Bowls.
You aren't winning anything with smoke and mirrors.
It would be a different Wildcat now, friend. R BROWN was no passer. R WILLIAMS was even worse. And then there's the weaponry, isn't there?
The THREAT of the pass play MUST be there to make the Wildcat effective. As soon as teams figured out that BROWN was really a very lousy passer, THAT was THAT.
TODAY (not yesteryear, mind you), MIAMI has a young HB who played a lot of QB in college. This is w/o even MENTIONING Denver's TEBOW, who's even better. The O-Line's deeper and better than the crapola bunch that MIAMI was stuck with due to injury last season. The man replacing R WILLIAMS as the motion man out of the Left side "slot" is R BUSH (Remember him? The "home run" threat?). Instead of a pass-challenged "trigger man" (BROWN), you have D THOMAS/T TEBOW (if MIAMI could get him cheaply) and THAT matters A LOT. Given that much, it'd be a waste to put HENNE at Left WR like MIAMi did when PENNINGTON was the QB, because the pass-threat, i/m/o absolutely necessary to the success of any "Wildcat", would ALREADY be there. SO PUT MARSHALL IN THERE INSTEAD. Everyting else (remaining personnel, unbalanced Line) remains the same, except that we have a for-real OC as well.
Assuming that the threat to pass was legit (and I believe that it would be), what would an opposing DC do? Crowd the l/o/s in the hope of containing TEBOW/THOMAS and BUSH? Then what about FASANO, now that a talented passer's throwing the football? And while PENNINGTON wasn't much of a threat to do anything unless they could get him the ball in position to pass, what would a DC now do about MARSHALL at Left WR instead of PENNINGTON? And who covers whoever it is that replaces COBB? And what if that person is GATES?
NO ONE has had the opportunity to run the Wildcat w/a LEGIT passer as the "trigger man", lightning in R WILLIAMS' role, and WRs who can really burn you badly when there's someone to get the ball to them. MIAMI is about the only team that has that fomula within its grasp TODAY. It would only get better w/TEBOW. And all I can say is, either w/ or w/o TEBOW, "Why NOT us?".
As to how many times/game MIAMI would run its Wildcat, the answer is simple: as long as the other team can't stop it. If you need a more precise answer, go ask N.E. and BELLICHEK: maybe they can give you one.
