Comments on: What if the Jets won’t be using the Wildcat at all?

By: bronco1991

bronco1991 — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:37:51 +0000

Does anybody remember the last time Sanchez made a fool of himself lining up as a wide out?

By: kbookert

kbookert — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:40:20 +0000

Stop reading and commenting on the Jets and they will stop writing about them.

By: drunkenagitator

drunkenagitator — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:45:21 +0000

Wildcat Wildcat Wildcat…jeez, it was a few gimmick plays that worked a few times a few years ago. That’s it.

By: joeypickles

joeypickles — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:23:51 +0000

Quick search yielded the follwing top reasons to use the single-sing… Ya, this sounds like the Jets.

•The single wing is an excellent ball control offense, which translates to less time on the field for your defense.
•It’s an excellent formation for teams lacking a talented quarterback or feature halfback.
•With an emphasis on team football, all players get a chance to contribute.
•When opponents are trying to prepare for your team, their scout team will have a difficult time of accurately simulating the single wing.

By: mancave001

mancave001 — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:35:58 +0000

You mean the Dolphins’ defense who got burned by the TeBone offense last year? Yeah, I’m sure *that* won’t happen again.

Oh, and Sanchez will be eating hot dogs on the sideline inside week 6. Write it down.

By: benielomax

benielomax — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:02:20 +0000

David Lee did not come up with the Wild Hog in Arkansas; it was Gus Malzahn who is given credit for bringing it to prominence there. David Lee inherited it from Malzahn after Malzahn left and Lee became the OC and then Lee took it to the NFL and unleashed it on Belichick with Miami.

The hallmark of the Wildcat or Wild Hog or Wild Rebel is an unbalanced line. Just because a RB gets a direct snap does not mean it is the same formation. You ask David Lee whether a direct snap to the RB is necessarily the Wildcat formation and I think he will give you a resounding no. Without the unbalanced line, you lose a key component of its advantage.

By: harry1941

harry1941 — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:23:18 +0000

Stop crying Jet Fans, It takes time to learn Tony Sparano offense. This game doesn’t count. The Jets will not face the Giants in the season. The Jets dump Wayne Hunter

By: jetsfaninjersey

jetsfaninjersey — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:15:46 +0000

LOVE the hate….keep it coming..you all have nothing better to discuss..I can talk Jets all day…

By: electionconfidential

electionconfidential — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:19:59 +0000

If I were Rex and I really did have a wildcat package installed I think I’d be afraid to trot it out. If the fans see the wildcat package ALSO not working they’ll run him out of town on a rail.

I don’t see where they have the tools to run a wildcat any more than they have the tools to run a conventional offense. One person (Tebow) doesn’t enable an offense. In fact the wildcat and other single-wing derivatives require expert blocking.

The Jets do not currently have expert blocking.

By: mgpet

mgpet — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:22:34 +0000

I cannot wait until they start 0-8. Yes, losing to terribad Miami twice.

By: mwindle1973

mwindle1973 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:44:42 +0000

Well, it makes sense…they have no ability to front an NFL passing game regardless of who’s behind C. ANyway the Wildcat’s big flaw, was that it didn’t work against a well disciplined D that could play man to man well. You simply assign 6 of your back 7 man to man on the 6 non OLineman, and stick the FS in centerfield. When your man stays in to block you pass rush or play zone depending on the situation. THis leaves the Dlineman to simply play a contain game where penetration is not wanted. Stay in your lane, stand your guy up at the LOS type of DLine play. And this is a similar way to how Belichick played the TeBone last year in the playoff win. But you have to be able to cover the WRs man up with single high help. And you can’t be missing tackles. But back to the article…it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t have a Wildcat or similar offense at all to show anyone. I know it seems to make sense to keep it secret until regular season. But it doesn’t really. Unless you have a new type offense for Tebow, and nobody has seen it. Or you are blowing smoke and there is no alternate offense at all. That’s an advantage too. I know the Bengals practiced defending the WIldcat in practice before playing the Jets last week. Yet Rex claims there was an agreement to not use it. But you can look on Bengals.com, and find the last practice before the Jets game, we put rookie WR Sanu in the QB position and had him run Wildcat plays so our defenders could get looks at it. Seems odd if there was already a guarantee the Wildcat wouldn’t be used.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:38 +0000

The Jags should have acquired Tebow, and just scrap their entire scheme and installed a Hybrid of Tebow’s Offense from Florida. You cant reinvent Tebow, he will never be a good conventional QB, but he is great at the read-option.

IDK it was kinda of exciting last year having DENVER doing something totally different, compared to the rest of the league.

Tebow should have gone to JAX, where they would have more open to showcasing his talents. If he does get opportunity to be starter in NYJ he will be running a conventional offense with some read-option, and he will fail. He needs to have his offense completely tailored to him for success, but with guys like Santonio Holmes on the team it will be a debacle when they start complaining about targets… etc

By: nomoreseasontix

nomoreseasontix — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:31:52 +0000

That’s a fair amount of over analysis for a crappy team with a crappy offense.
I’m not sure any of it matters…

By: stonecld33

stonecld33 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:22:53 +0000

Maybe the jets will use the fumblerewsky as well or the hook and ladder and possibly a immaculate reception recreation. Just saying

By: chitownbullet

chitownbullet — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:40:25 +0000

The darlings of the
E-astern S-eaboard P-ropaganda N-etwork!
They are a pseudo Reality show with Sexy Rexy the star and Tebow the clueless bimbo that is used as relief. Why? What’s the point? The show needs to be canceled!

By: thehouseofho

thehouseofho — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:34:12 +0000

delhommed says:
Aug 19, 2012 3:18 PM
why does coach sporano get credit for the wildcat when in fact it was his OC, Dan Henning who installed it? That goes back to Henning’s time in Carolina in 2006, when the Panthers were so bad off at QB, Chirs Weinke wasn’t trusted to pass at all that game. Wildcat… Get it? Panthers/Cat? Just saying.
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It’s called the Wildcat because the high school where Hugh Wyatt — the man credited with coming up with the formation — coached was called the Wildcats.

By: thetwilightsown

thetwilightsown — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:31:21 +0000

What if none of the other 31 fan bases cares? Oh wait… clearly that means nothing.

Any other team – any other team – regularly plays as mediocre a brand of football as this one and we’d hear nothing about them. Ironically, it’s because of two very mediocre QB’s playing equally mediocre football on this mediocre team that we need to hear about them 24-7. A perfect storm of mediocrity renders… HEADLINES!!!

By: delhommed

delhommed — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:18:04 +0000

why does coach sporano get credit for the wildcat when in fact it was his OC, Dan Henning who installed it? That goes back to Henning’s time in Carolina in 2006, when the Panthers were so bad off at QB, Chirs Weinke wasn’t trusted to pass at all that game. Wildcat… Get it? Panthers/Cat? Just saying.

By: glowingstone

glowingstone — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:12:30 +0000

The way Rex Ryan talks, does anybody really think it’s possible for him to keep a secret?!?

By: eventhorizon04

eventhorizon04 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:11:53 +0000

The Buffalo Bills also did well against the Tebow-led Broncos, so you add them to the list of teams that don’t fear Tebow-led run offenses.

By: ghjjf

ghjjf — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:05:10 +0000

It’s no more of a gimmick than play action pass or an end around. But the problem is you need the right backs to be able to execute it successfully. So far, Tebow is the only back they have capable of running that style of offense. Their other backs are no good and their line can’t seem to block, which is why they will fail if they try to run the Wildcat.

By: karl422

karl422 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:47:55 +0000

The Jets offense better come up with something (like maybe a RT) because what I saw last night they are not going to win four games.

By: kattykathy

kattykathy — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:42:04 +0000

It really is getting old hearing about Rex, Tebow or the Jets each and every freakin single day.
The Jets have done nothing to warrant all the coverage. They are overrated and not good.

By: dtjano

dtjano — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:40:42 +0000

The biggest observation about the wildcat is that if a team is running it they don’t have a good QB.

By: jaxdolfan

jaxdolfan — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:39:03 +0000

The Jets will do something with Tebow. Whether it is wildcat or option, they will. They just arent going to show their hand just yet.

The only thing that would stop them from using the wildcat or wild Tebow would be if their regular offense was enough to win games and keep opposing defenses busy preparing for them.

By: cuda1234

cuda1234 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:36:59 +0000

David Lee came up with the 3-rb package at Arkansas when he had Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Peyton Hills and wanted to get them all on the field together.

It was an act of desperation in Miami when they had nothing at qb or wr but three good tailbacks (Ricky, Ronnie and Patrick Cobbs) . Parcells was desperate and asked if anyone had ANYTHING so Lee spoke up, they gave it a shot and the gimmick worked.

That’s all it was – a gimmick and an act of desperation. I really wish the media would stop talking about it as if it was some stroke of genius.

By: KIR

KIR — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:31:05 +0000

Does Rex intentionally want an undermanned, underperforming, non explosive offense to make his defense look good? The Jets might win 6 ugly games this season only because of the defense. Yuck! I won’t be watching. Snooze alert

By: fuhnahtik

fuhnahtik — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:30:43 +0000

I think it’s reasonable that Miami ran a similar offense and could reasonably defend against it, but most teams last year that expected it still couldn’t defend it – including the NYJ under Rex Ryan. I think we’ll see all kinds of crazy things out of NY this year, and I for one am excited to see all of them!

By: curtj5

curtj5 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:29:38 +0000

Who cares, the Jets suck, Teblow sucks, Sanchez sucks, I wish there was a media black-out of this team, and I hope they go 1-15.

By: stonecoldsays

stonecoldsays — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:28:42 +0000

I reccomend they give Jim Zorn a call to run the swinging gate. The Jets are a punchline as it stands and one more chuckle would do us all well and that’s the bottomline causse Stone Cold said so.