No, those numbers are just in the Wildcat, nothing to do with the end-around. Like I said, it only does numbers from the last 2 years, it doesn't break it down, but it puts Smith at 9.6 YPC from the Wildcat. Overall, Smith had 56 carries for 506 yards, 9.04 YPC, so he actually averaged more from the Wildcat. I don't think the wildcat would be nearly as effective this year with a worse o-line, and without Smith running it. Smith was great at running it. The Jets used the Wildcat last year more than every other team in the NFL except for the Dolphins, and we were more effective than all of them. We do miss it. I was never a big Wildcat fan, but I would never say it wasn't effective.
You know why the Wildcat regressed last year? Because we did the same damn thing with it every time we lined up. By the time we played the Steelers late in the year, they knew where we were going with it every single time Smith was in the backfield. He pitched it MAYBE once to LT or Greene? Threw that one TD pass to Keller? It becomes predictable when you play it safe and do the same thing over and over again. Hmmm... doesn't that sound familiar?
I really don't know how you can argue it. You said yourself the Wildcat became less and less effective. And are you going to deny that the ball never left Smith's hands but twice? That's called becoming predictable. Kind of like running Greene up the middle every time he touches the ball.
Maybe they didn't trust Brad to throw? There's a reason he's not a QB in this league. Buf has only allowed him to throw one time(an incompletion).
You don't have to throw the ball to do something different with the Wildcat. Pitch it maybe? Run outside? Combined with throwing, those are three things we did a handful of times with the Wildcat last year. I wouldn't expect any less from Schotty though.
They don't though. You can't pitch it from the WC unless you're running outside, or unless you're extremely positive your blocks are going to be exactly where you need them to be up the middle. The one time Smith rolled out, he hit Keller. I think I remember a pitch to Greene too that was pretty effective. Other than that it was a standard run up the middle. So no, they really didn't give him options. And with guys like Kerley/McKnight there's no reason we shouldn't be running outside.
