Inspired by that thread last week about stacking an entire team with elite offensive linemen and running for 3 yards every single play.
What other crackpot strategies would you like to see an NFL team try? I’ve got two…
1: A rugby-style offense that’s the polar opposite of the tush push. get your speedsters in a Flying V formation in the open field and let them lateral it to each other.
2: An offense that starts 2 mobile QBs (one lefty one righty) in shotgun every play. ball could get snapped to either one to run a somewhat normal offensive scheme, or just max out the gimmicks and do a bunch of flea-flicker, double-pass type stuff with the two guys back there
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“I’m going to draft someone nobody’s ever heard of in the first round. They’ll never see that coming!” - Bob Quinn
More hook and ladders.
I want to see some fake spikes. Every time I see a defense lazily get into rough position barely paying attention inside the 5 as they wait for the spike, I wish someone would just snap it and walk it in.
stafford fake spike against the cowboys in like ~2011 was one of my all time favorite endings to watch live
Like Marino did back in the day, or more recently big Ben.
Let us evolve the Tush Push. There is no rule about throwing players forward. Employ a small durable player that on the snap of the ball can be thrown over the line by two players, similar to a shot put.
Whatever evolution of offense Bellicheck was going for with Gronk and Hernandez. He could never quite get it right after the first one kind of broke but he was on the cusp of a brand new system utilizing basically only tight ends and running the football.
Can a player run up another player? I say we put treads on a fullback and let a half back climb and jump the line
That system probably only works when you have arguably the GOAT TE and GOAT QB in that system. Also another fringe all-pro TE.
Like most “systems” it helps when the players are incredibly good lol
2 mobile quarterbacks, line doesn’t know who will get the ball, whoever gets rushed can just lateral to the other qb who can then throw or run. There’s probably a football reason this is a trash idea but that’s the craziest thing I can think of, and offenses need to do something to beat these pass rushes because it feels like o lines are just getting destroyed this year.
I’d like to see defenses get ultra aggressive in the fourth quarter when they are up by less than a touchdown. I want to see all out blitzes every down.
The idea is to not give up a clock killing touchdown drive. You either force a punt, or give up a quick touchdown. This lets you get the ball back with a chance to end the game on a touchdown drive of your own.
The Greg Williams defense. The way it worked out in practice was the defense giving up a quick score while the offense barely has time to catch their breath
That’s literally what happend in the Denver game minus the spread.
The 40-40 chuck it up strategy. Basically if you are a team at the 40 yard line or greater, every play should just be a chuck it 40 yards or more deep pass. Why? Each time you do it, one of 4 things are likely to happen.
1)A completed deep pass (Good) 2)A pass interference call (Good) 3)An incomplete pass (nul) 4)An interception (Bad)
So 50% of likely options are good and only 25% are harmful. Yet because this strategy only starts at the 40 yard line, you have basically made a punt anyway so the harmful result isn’t really that punishing.
If you take enough deep shots eventually one will be DPI statistically
This was the Ravens offense with Flacco and Torrey Smith
Well, an incomplete does cost you a down, so I wouldn’t call that null.
I, for years, have badly wanted to see an NFL team put the kicker in motion for long field goals.
I know it’s possible. I’ve been able to get the timing down reasonably consistently after just a handful of practice attempts and it definitely adds a bit of range to the kick as you get much more speed vs. the two step run up.
The obvious negatives are that if you mess up the timing you are kinda fucked and it becomes really easy for the defense to time the snap. But I’d love to see a team implement it, and only bring it out if theyre down <4 points late and need a 65+ yarder.
First time you do it, everyone’s just gonna be confused, but once they catch on you can start throwing fakes at them. Just send the kicker in motion and don’t snap the ball. Teams anticipating the snap based on your kickers motion are gonna fly offside and bingo. Now your 65 yarder is a much more palatable 60 yards.
This is what I’m here for. Offenses and Defenses evolve so much, so often. We need Special Teams evolution at the same rate. It currently stands as the most beneficial unit to improve because it has operated very similarly for a long time.
if Tyreek could learn to be a holder for fgs the Dolphins could literally probably run fake fg jet sweeps lol
More flea flickers!!!
I’d like to see an O-Line of Silverback gorillas.
A donkey to kick field goals.
I want to see more swinging gate plays and more pop passes.
Replace every offensive player with huge lineman and just do jumbo goal line runs up the middle. Every play
I remember the Packers doing this against the Lions with Eddie Lacy once. Every single play was Eddie Lacy up the middle for like 8-9 yards.
I mean, it worked so why wouldn’t they keep doing it?
Do you remember Craig “Ironhead” Heyward? Or Christian Okoye, or maybe William “The Refrigerator” Perry being put in the backfield on the goal line?
My team doesn’t have 11 linemen left to do it. Given the injury report from yesterday, we might not have 11 players left.
More 2 QBs teams. The old saying is if you have 2 QBs you have no QB, but with how the NFL is maybe half the teams have a locked in QB. The other half are ok to suck anyways, might as well try and fuck with opponents
We did it last season, we ran a qb by committee… It was… A tactic…
We used to use EJ Manuel as a hard count specialist.
Most teams are going to need 2 QBs after the league goes to a 22 game season.
Run a wishbone with a RB, FB, and running QB
Add flea flickers and trick plays too and that would either be the dumbest move of all time, or unstoppable
Put them on the field at the same time and really see what you can cook up lol
If Levis is going to start the rest of the year, convert Tannehill back to a WR and line him up in the slot.
Our college coach actually tried a 2 QB strategy - at the same time. Yup, he lined up 2 Quarterbacks on the field, both in shotgun. I guess he thought the defense wouldn’t know who had the ball.
It sure was something.