[stupac2]

While there's been a lot of folk wisdom that the wildcat is a bad play, has anyone actually broken down the numbers to see whether it did (or didn't) work?

Also, what do we mean by "The Wildcat" anyway? Burns, a QB, is slightly different than putting an RB back there. We've seen two running-QB packages during the Shaw era -- Kevin Hogan (which I'd say worked) and Dallas Lloyd (which got shelved after Lloyd demonstrated turnover issues, though he had plenty of successful plays otherwise). Based on history it seems like a running-QB package can work very well, and that Shaw and his staff are pretty quick to shut down a malfunctioning version. So it seems like a perfectly cromulent experiment to me.

I've personally never seen any breakdown of it, probably because that would mean charting our games and ain't nobody got time for dat. Easier to MMQB.

[stupac2]

While there's been a lot of folk wisdom that the wildcat is a bad play, has anyone actually broken down the numbers to see whether it did (or didn't) work?

Also, what do we mean by "The Wildcat" anyway? Burns, a QB, is slightly different than putting an RB back there. We've seen two running-QB packages during the Shaw era -- Kevin Hogan (which I'd say worked) and Dallas Lloyd (which got shelved after Lloyd demonstrated turnover issues, though he had plenty of successful plays otherwise). Based on history it seems like a running-QB package can work very well, and that Shaw and his staff are pretty quick to shut down a malfunctioning version. So it seems like a perfectly cromulent experiment to me.

I've personally never seen any breakdown of it, probably because that would mean charting our games and ain't nobody got time for dat. Easier to MMQB.