re: Nothing special about the wildcat.

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this wildcat is effective.. and very tough to stop especially when they have the right guys in the system

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this, and that the Wildcat is not some gimmik play that they run once or twice a game. It IS their offense, and they make work accordingly. All these other teams who are trying their own "wild cat" gimmick plays are failing at it, because it's nothing more than a trick play that they may run twice in practice any given week.

This is why I hate this formation on any team except the Dolphins. Other teams try to do the copy cat and fail, while the Dolphins hold true to their courageous offense and run it as a system.

But really, the wild cat is nothing more than the option. To stop it requires discipline in gap assignments. I think it's hard for NFL teams to defend it, because they're just not used to defending the option anymore. Some of these players haven't seen it in a decade, so they will have a tendency to bite on the obfuscation it creates