This is the time of the season where the cream rises to the top. We have games against NE and Pitt in their houses and a tuough Miami team coming to our place. The next few weeks are going to really show what this team is made of.
The Seminole failed once yesterday. Other than that it's had an extremely HIGH success rate. Keep running it, and soon throw it.
I think that is going to be much less true this year than in past years. The NFL deliberately backloaded division games this year, for the express purpose of making more games in December competitive. In past years top teams would have some games against nondivisional teams with nothing to play for, and they would at least have a better chance to win those games easily (as an example, last year 3 of Indy's last 4 games were against nondivisional opponents, all of San Diego's last 5 games were, 4 of Minnesota's last 5 were, 4 of Green Bay's last 5 were, etc.). My prediction is that this year the top teams are going to have much closer games in December, and are going to lose some of them, too (and I don't mean only after they've clinched their playoff position).
I have no problem with the Seminole. However, can the staff show some freaking situational awareness with it. I mean it is like Schotty has a list and has to go by that list. Why on gods green earth do you run that wildcrap on 2nd and 24? Why? I have to say I wanted to nut punch Schotty over that ridiculous play call. It was horrifyingly bad!
Good point. We haven't shown any elite calibre strengths in our game consistently but if we start to shape up over these next few weeks maybe this might be our time.
yep it was a wasted play. would of been better to be in a run formation, if schotty was looking to just rush. or how about 4 receiving targets, 1 rb, on the field, and doing a little halfback draw? why just fucking call an obvious brad smith run? i swear 95% of us here should have a headset on wired to rex, and schotty during games.
Then perhaps you should share some of your ultimate football acumen with us Zace since indeed, you're an expert.
I've seen the extremely high success rate last season, but this year not so much. Perhaps if they let Mizzou's former record setting QB throw out that formation every now and then. Like last year maybe..
Are those numbers skewed? If he breaks one nice run out of say, every 8 times the play is called, those ypc's become deceiving. He got one of his big runs yesterday not using the seminole yes? So perhaps the word "absolutely" was a poor choice, but I just don't see the production out of that play that we saw last year. I'd be interested in seeing the production numbers for the seminole this season particularly vs last season. Perhaps our resident experts can help out..
I was thinking the same thing. Some of these numbers do seem to be misleading. I think that this wildcat gig is getting old and we need a few wrinkles to max out the Swiss army knife Brad Smith. I expect to see some interesting plays next week and you can bet Bill Bellend has a few ready for us.
Jets are 1-2 against top teams: Pats, green bay, baltimore pats are 3-1 agianst top teams: steelers, indy, baltimore, jets *for the pats, you can throw in San Diego as another good team they beat. jets are basically getting by because of their easy schedule.
so? that's one game from a month ago. the team needed a loss to refocus - every team will lose a handful of games during the season. every pats fan will tell you that the cleveland loss is a blessing for them - they've been 3-0 since that loss. besides the jests barely beat the lions and would have lost if it weren't for you guys injuring their kicker. the lions - the same team the pats smoked yesterday.
Not that dumping Moss and going to the shorter range stuff had anything at all to do with that run... Brady makes his living in the short to midrange stuff and now his offense is more that than a stretch the field. Please don't bring up that poor Lion that got victimized. That was brutal to watch.. :grin: FTR though, we play alot more mixed coverage than we used to as well. This upcoming game will be quite a chess match..
Brad Smith doesn't get runs exclusively from the traditional Tigercat/Wildcat/Seminole. The 55 yd TD was a variation on the classic WR end-around with Sanchez under center. And Many of his runs are pure QB Option Plays - not Wildcat plays.
He had a very good YPC prior to that run, I remember reading that he had the best YPC in the league for anyone with 20+ carries. Yes, absolutely was a very poor word considering the play is successful a lot of the time. It seems like we almost always get 5 yards out of the formation to me. We will probably see the pass out of it against the Pasts.
You mean the Lions without their #1 pick starting qb - thanks to the Jets, that still gave you a run for 3 quarters. You can hardly call them the same team without their qb. I guess the Pats will get another "blessing" next week that allows them to reflect and "refocus".
