OK guys, lets see who has the most creative minds. Let's see who has the offensive mind to help TS and Henning come up with some new plays. What has yet to be ran out of the wildcat?? I have two plays that I think will work and will post after I see a few others. But lets draw a few plays in the dirt and see what we can come up with.
Im not sure, but i'd like to see Ginn be used more in the wildcat. Maybe have White take the snap, and then Ronnie lined up as a back with Ricky/Bess wideout one end and Ginn another end. Or, Ginn takes the snap with Ronnie in the backfield, and have White lined up wide. Have White motion in and he can either take the hand off and run/pass or fake the handoff and give it Ronnie, or just have Ginn run it. Both of these scenario's have so many different outcomes.
At some point those safteys who sell out on the run must pay.... Ginn lined up wide....White snaps fakes to Ronnie and launches a deep ball to Ginn, will it work? Maybe 30% of the time....but what it will do is keep the last line of defense from selling out and bumrushing the running lanes.
Im pretty sure that this offseason they didn't add too much. They barely showed it. We ran like what, 5-6 plays? Players, coaches, everybody insisted there was alot more to it.
I see Pat and Ronnie lined up next to each other in the back field, Ginn and Bess out wide, Ricky in motion toward the backfield. Center can snap it to either Ronnie or Pat, dependent on what he sees the safety's doing. Or he snaps it to Ronnie one play, Ronnie either runs it or hands off to Pat who passes to Ginn or Bess. Or snap it to Pat and he either runs or hands off to Ronnie, or passes to Ginn or Bess. Either way with both lined up in the backfield, the opposing D has no idea who we're going to long snap it to - Pat or Ronnie.
I know one personnel package I'd love to see whould simply outsize the defense. -our standard wildcat front of five O-linemen (offset to right, LT lined up to right of RT) - Pat White takes the snap - 5 WR spread, two to left, three to right - TO LEFT (FROM SIDELINE TOWARDS CENTER) - Patrick Turner , Ernest Wilford - TO RIGHT (FROM CENTER OUT TOWARDS SIDELINE) Anthony Fasano, David Martin, Brandon London I would run this package against anyone with undersized CBs... like the Jets. Sadly, the Pats have a couple 6-plus footers, like Leigh Bodden. Still, we could run behind this formation with white, or bully the defense in the redzone with size on jump balls or routes where the reciver shields the CB off with his body.
Another package I'd enjoy watching is as follows: - typical Wildcat line (as above) - Pat White at QB - 2 WR to left: Camarillo and Bess - To right there are Ronnie Brown (can chip a rusher or go out in pattern), Ted Ginn, and Brian Hartline (I like Ginn inside Hartline because of the potential mismatch if the #1 CB doesn;t switch up to cover Teddy) This package has SO much quickness it'd be hell to cover. I'd use this against teams who priimarily run a ZONE coverage, or have slower CB's and Safeties.
Wow... we desrve this sort of awesome offense, the type of offense that you can fantasize about, after enduring Mularkey. Ugh. He was the most predictable OC I have ever seen... except if he got a 1st and goal to go... then he was the LEAST predictable play caller I had ever seen. Least effective too. Henning... stay awhile to play with your new toys!
I don't have any particular play in mind.With that being said,Penny won't(or shouldn't) be on the field for the Wildcat anymore so that gives us another weapon to line up on the outside.Now defenses can't cheat or give Chad a cheap shot either.Opens up that handoff to Ricky on the strongside run also. Now that that receiver in Chad's WR spot needs to accounted for.Who is agile enough to spy Pat? Being of the duel threat variety,this leaves so many options open it's almost not fair.We should be able to pick apart all the defenses we play this year "IF" Pat White flourishs at his position.
The WC is still considered a Running Formation...Isn't it??? I would say that it would still be run as such, with a real vertical threat to it this time... Then on to the thread...the latest wrinkle to it??? Better blocking on the OL, which would give more time to the vertical passing game off of it... or holding the blocks to help the ground game... I know many will think it White, but I still think it starts up front with good blocking...White is the added bonus to the WC... We got to remember that after the first Balt game, Defenses blitzed the gaps against us disrupting the WC to a large extent... Except for the 1st NE game (also one pass from Ronnie to Fassano later on), our passing off the WC were pitches back to Penny... and Penny was always out as a WR, away from the DL and LB pressure...
