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NeGgaPlEaSe said:

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.

I’d venture to say it’s not the play but the player, Sanky, Gaskin and now dick

1to392831weretaken said:

Houhusky said:

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.

I have zero problems with the wild dick wrinkle

The problem with this is it's a way to lie with statistics. The wilddick is typically run on 3rd and 1. You know what other plays are wildly successful on 3rd and 1? All of them. The QB sneak has been equally successful on those kinds of downs, yet I don't see anybody begging to do it on 1st and goal from the 7. You know what hasn't happened on a non-wildcat play this season? A fumbled exchange that nearly turns the ball over and eventually leads to a fruitless drive inside the 10.

So now let's look at plays that aren't only a yard to gain. How successful has the wildcat been on standard downs (like 1st and goal from the 7)? Because that's when it was fucktardedly called. The Huskies averaged over 7 yards per play in that game, and that's with all of the short wildcat gains and tackled-by-endzone thrown in. Nearly 5 yards per play on the ground, and that's counting sacks and FS wildcat. But you want your QB playing split end on 1st and goal from the 7?

The wildcat is redundant. Everybody knows how to defend it--especially everybody who has to prepare for Stanford every season--and it's not statistically more successful than any other play. "But it gives the other team something else to prepare for" makes no sense, because it also gives the Husky offense something else to prepare. Which is how things like fumbled exchanges inside the 10 happen.

Honestly, when wildcat is called on 3rd and 1, I roll my eyes and watch them pick up a 1st down, which they almost invariably would have anyway, but whatever. It's not worth getting annoyed about in those cases. Calling it on a standard down is when I get pissed.

RoadDawg55 said:

1to392831weretaken said:

Houhusky said:

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.

I have zero problems with the wild dick wrinkle

The problem with this is it's a way to lie with statistics. The wilddick is typically run on 3rd and 1. You know what other plays are wildly successful on 3rd and 1? All of them. The QB sneak has been equally successful on those kinds of downs, yet I don't see anybody begging to do it on 1st and goal from the 7. You know what hasn't happened on a non-wildcat play this season? A fumbled exchange that nearly turns the ball over and eventually leads to a fruitless drive inside the 10.

So now let's look at plays that aren't only a yard to gain. How successful has the wildcat been on standard downs (like 1st and goal from the 7)? Because that's when it was fucktardedly called. The Huskies averaged over 7 yards per play in that game, and that's with all of the short wildcat gains and tackled-by-endzone thrown in. Nearly 5 yards per play on the ground, and that's counting sacks and FS wildcat. But you want your QB playing split end on 1st and goal from the 7?

The wildcat is redundant. Everybody knows how to defend it--especially everybody who has to prepare for Stanford every season--and it's not statistically more successful than any other play. "But it gives the other team something else to prepare for" makes no sense, because it also gives the Husky offense something else to prepare. Which is how things like fumbled exchanges inside the 10 happen.

Honestly, when wildcat is called on 3rd and 1, I roll my eyes and watch them pick up a 1st down, which they almost invariably would have anyway, but whatever. It's not worth getting annoyed about in those cases. Calling it on a standard down is when I get pissed.

It’s extra blocking and a chance to gauge where the hole is on short yardage situations. We’ve broken off long runs from it too, especially Gaskin.