I certainly think we have the guys for it. Leon, Jones, and Brad Smith are the keys. WE could take Favre right off the field sometimes.....teams still wouldn't know if it was going to be the end-around, run up the middle, or reverse pass to Smith. Or, keep Favre in there ever now and again and line up in a similar formation but just run a regular play. I can see a tonne of options for the Jets out of this.....end around to Leon, Jones up the middle or off tackle, a reverse to Smith, a reverse pass with Smith throwing.... Even an end-around to Leon where he fakes the hand-off to Smith, who goes and runs a pattern, and Leon gives it to Favre who is spread out wide and he throws it to Smith. Anyway, I'd like to see it...
Yea I was gonna say...we've run similar gadget plays...back when we did it people said we played around too much on offense...we just didn't have a Ronnie Brown scoring 5 TD's or w/e it was to get us the national attention the Dolphins got.
I believe the key for this is Brad Smith. He is a former QB, any time he lines up in the back field the defense has to be on their toes. He can run it throw it, or hand it off. I don't feel lining Favre up in a WR spot is the smartest thing to do. If you want to try that one you may need to wait for some time when Clemens is in there. This is the type of play that will usually only work one or two times in a game, so if you are gonna do it, it can't result in a 2 yard gain. It has to be something big.
I thought the same thing. Remember seeing Brad smith taking snaps on Option type plays? I don't think we need to do this. Concentrate on our power running game and playaction. Stick to whats working for us.
A little off topic, but here's and idea for a trick play: show 5 wides with empty backfield and them move a receiver into the backfield and run it. We have so many WRs who can run with the ball.
I think they should try to use Brad Smith more often with a trick pass once in while, if its exectuted it can be effective
Does the wildcat play refer to when the running back is lined up at center, or any non-qb player? Because last year the packers ran a play once where donald driver (wr) was lined up at qb, and favre was at wr, pretty funny to watch, I think we maybe got a few yards on the play. Can't remember if Driver ran with it, or did a quick pass to another receiver.
We run the Wild Rebel down here. Let me tell you why it works: Its college football. Ole Miss is the best example in the SEC of the Wildcat style being run right now, Arkansas was previously. It came with the coach. No, the Jets can't have him, and if they took him it'd be a mistake because college coaches for the most part suck in the nfl. Secret to beating the wildcat is blitzing.
More important than having a player who can run the ball (doesn´t matter who) is an unbalanced line. That means you put 3 OL on one side of the center and 1 to the other. btw, we´re having Turner in as a 6th OL, pretty often lately.
Bender must have really fallen out of the coaches' good graces eh? Lets hope he'll learn something from Faneca and be good in the future.
It's a little more than that. 1) There's an unbalanced line. I think usually the line is something like TE-LG-C-RG-RT-LT-TE 2) The QB lines up as a wide receiver on the left side of the ball. This forces the defense to actually assign a guy to cover the QB and it takes a man away from the right side. 3) A WR or RB takes the ball and has the ability to run, hand the ball off to another WR or RB, or pass.
This is something to keep in mind for the long term perhaps, but with large amount of new personnel, the fact that they are still working on becoming cohesive/"getting on the same page" and only got there in the last game, if they are there yet at all, and finally because they have to play two games in the stretch of five days ... ... for all these reasons I would say that right now it might be foolish squandering of precious practice time to spend a lot of effort getting down a novelty offense that you might only use a few times per game, when there clearly still is a lot of work to do on the offense that we'd still be running the other 95% of the time. Maybe the extra 3 days after the Patsies game might give a little time to mess around with this, but ... please please PLEASE do not distract focus from the basics with gimmicks like this right now. IMO
We tried it against the Chiefs a few weeks ago if I'm not mistaken, with Brad Smith ending up with the ball and throwing it, but it was an incomplete pass down the field to Coles.
