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PM Pete
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Please ditch the Wild Cat, you have the top qb in the country. Defenses don’t fear that crap. They fear your 6’6” strong arm top 10 NFL prospect and and your first round TE Hunter Bryant. Additionally The Pitt Special was better than any of your trick plays in the last 10 years. Please step up your game.
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Pete definitely losing his edge
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You can't say "Pit Special" when referencing a game against BYU. That's confusing! I thought you were talking about something on the sorority menu for a second.
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To your point, though, the wildcat, as a concept, is something I've ALWAYS hated. I get the theory: You get an extra blocker at the point of attack and run. But I'd like to see ANY data that suggests it has a higher success rate that a standard running play. I'd bet my house it doesn't.
Only the dumbest fucking DC on the planet doesn't go cover-0 and bring every single DB on the field up to the LOS. Cool, you just gained one blocker and brought two defenders into the box.
As to, "Why doesn't he ever hand off to the fly sweep motion?" Maybe because the fucking quarterback is who would be out there lead blocking for that.
Duuuuuuuuumb.
The threat of the pass is way more likely to loosen a D than an extra blocker. I don't care how many first downs Dick Newt and Gaskin have gotten from Wildcat over the last three years. Prove to me a standard play* would have been less successful.
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Wildcat has been very successful for us in short yardage situations. I understand wanting the ball in Eason’s hands, but I don’t hate it as much as some of you because it has worked the majority of the time.
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My issue with it there was that Eason was 18/20 at the time, and our run game was averaging less than 3 yards a carry at that time in the game. Eason was in complete control, and yet we chose to remove him from the play.RoadDawg55 said:Wildcat has been very successful for us in short yardage situations. I understand wanting the ball in Eason’s hands, but I don’t hate it as much as some of you because it has worked the majority of the time.
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The wild dick has been run about 20 times and not worked twice....
it’s easily at been one of our most consistently successful calls and that’s without dick ever handing it off, so it’s basically just a RB direct snap with extra distractions.
Teams are going to spend time scheming against the 3 RB personnel package because it works really well and that’s when we can switch it up and do something retarded like go 5 wide with it against the defenses goal line personnel.
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we bringing trickery when it was not needed.DerekJohnson said:
My issue with it there was that Eason was 18/20 at the time, and our run game was averaging less than 3 yards a carry at that time in the game. Eason was in complete control, and yet we chose to remove him from the play.RoadDawg55 said:Wildcat has been very successful for us in short yardage situations. I understand wanting the ball in Eason’s hands, but I don’t hate it as much as some of you because it has worked the majority of the time.
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Yes, classic case of overthinking it.FirePete said:
we bringing trickery when it was not needed.DerekJohnson said:
My issue with it there was that Eason was 18/20 at the time, and our run game was averaging less than 3 yards a carry at that time in the game. Eason was in complete control, and yet we chose to remove him from the play.RoadDawg55 said:Wildcat has been very successful for us in short yardage situations. I understand wanting the ball in Eason’s hands, but I don’t hate it as much as some of you because it has worked the majority of the time.
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I don’t think it’s overthinking at all. It’s been a staple of our short yardage plan all year.
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I’d venture to say it’s not the play but the player, Sanky, Gaskin and now dickRoadDawg55 said:Wildcat has been very successful for us in short yardage situations. I understand wanting the ball in Eason’s hands, but I don’t hate it as much as some of you because it has worked the majority of the time.
