Great article and its nice to hear a bit more about how it developed. I love and hate the wildcat. It was fun to see us win and it was honestly a freaking blast to imagine what this team was going to come out with every week. The height of the wildcat wasn't even in 2008, it was 2009 when we practically ran it as a fulltime offense in some games, ditching the QB completely for stretches, and teams still couldn't stop it. That Jets game in prime time may have been the most fun ever. Maybe it is the Ravens that "figured it out", but those Ravens teams, except for oddly enough 2007, had a pretty good habit of figuring out anything we did. They were pretty darn good about just overpowering us on every play, wildcat or not, and they actually stopped Pennington by playing deep zone, something that teams liked to think was counterintuitive with "weak armed" Pennington out there. That team may have gotten its launch by the wildcat, but when it was the second half and we needed to win a game, Chad Pennington stepped up and closed out games. And we won a game in the snow in week 16 where KC was crushing us and we had to win the old fashioned way. That defense in 2008 wasn't all that talented but they managed to bend but not break and made the best of what they had. We didn't ask them to do too much and they were able to step up when it was their time.
