Looks like the WildCat Offense is here!!!!!!!

As long as it works, it will be fun.

Let’s be real about Childress. He’s always been a copycat. He was bare-bones vanilla when nobody else dared to do much else, or when “else” meant shotgun, rushing from shotgun formation, toss sweep, and 3 WR sets. He’s been 100% anti-toss-sweep because everybody else seems to prefer challenging the big DTs rather than running around them (or is it because several teams didn’t have a RB as fast as AP?). He said that 3WR sets were a bad idea, yet even Tyler Thigpen was highly productive with 3WR, which even casts doubt on all other doubters of the spread in the NFL. He was even against shotgun in his first year, but only because he wanted to be like Mike Holmgren and the old Niners, not because of original thought.

Similarly, I don’t expect Chilly and Bevell to do anything terribly different with the wildcat than those who ran plays out of it last year.

Vince Lombardi did not care to surprise you with new plays. He did not confuse you with which play was coming either. When his Packers lined up, you knew, #5 is getting the ball and he was coming on the power sweep. That boring, direct approach to football was Lombardi’s way of saying he was about to knock you flat on your can.

You don’t get any more points for a touchdown if the play you used had never been run in the history of the game, nor do the officials deduct any style points if you score using the same dive right, every time, all season long.

It is also true that Childress has won more games each season he has coached the Minnesota Vikings. If he continues to do that, I won’t care who dreamt up the plays or who decided to call then. He’s not claiming to be David Copperfield or that he’s going to make the Statue of Liberty disappear right before your eyes.

If they are scoring touchdowns out of the Wildcat or the Single Wing or Student Body Right, I won’t be unhappy.

Sir Isaac Newton was an arrogant egotist, but at his moment of triumph he said that if he had seen further than other men it was because he had stood on the shoulders of giants. That was just another way of saying what the English cleric Charles Caleb Colton would later say: “Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

If it works, do it.

People don’t remember Edison for the thousands of light bulbs he made that never worked, nor do they call him an uncreative failure. As Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. "

If R. Brown and R. Williams can run this and be very successful it could be scary to see how successful ap, taylor, and harvin could be. I’m with most of you guys, when I say it doesn’t really matter if Childress makes changes or not. I guess I’m not even sure how different you could make the wildcat offense. It’s pretty much just a qb choice. If the qb sees the rb has room then he hands it off, if he sees he himself has more room to run then he keeps it yourself. I guess maybe, whoever is taking the snap could throw the ball more, but as far as I know ap, taylor, or harvin haven’t ever played QB.

that chili will actually use the wildcat in actual meaningful games. i see it as a gimmick to make other coaches have to gameplan for it.

i like the plays when the defense knows exactly what we’re going to do and we come out, smack em in the mouth, and do it anyway!