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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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
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.
Tush-Push 2.0…
Don’t know how many people watched the OSU/Rutgers game this past weekend, but after building up the tush push as unstoppable for 2 years, in a game (playoff or superbowl) that the Eagles really need both a conversion and potentially a touchdown, snap to Hurts who will pass the ball back between his legs to Swift to bounce outside.
Defenses are literally putting everyone between the tackles because the brotherly shove is converting every time, use their alignment against them and bounce it outside.
The people calling for more laterals are fucking hilarious. I hope your team does it.
Looking at the Dolphins schedule I can’t see Tua back in the MVP conversation unless they rattle off 4 decisive multiple score wins over their last 4 games. Jets are gonna murder his stats though.
More Refrigerator Perry type plays. Use an athletic 300 lb man to either take the snap or handoff and get those short yards.
I want to see more teams use running QBs in a jack-knife role more often, alongside a pocket passer QB on the field. Taysom Hill style unleashed.
Guys like Fields, Hurts, Allen, and Lamar can still be the QB1 on their teams, sure, but sometimes they lineup at RB or in the slot. I think it would add a massive wrinkle into the playbook that a lot of defenses wouldnt be ready for.
Like my Madden strategy - just 4 verticals every play. The seam will be open!
I want the Eagles to line up for the Tush Push and then the the defensive nose tackle to just lay down at the line of scrimmage, sort of like in soccer when they have that guy lay down behind the wall on free kicks. If the whole point of the Tush Push is to get as low as possible as a wedge, then a guy laying down means they can’t get that low and won’t get the push.
It’s just crazy enough to work!
Recruitment gimmick. NFL scouts going to Japan & Korea (Republic of not DPRK) seeing if Sumo wrestlers can play O line tackles.
Westerners tend to think of Sumo wrestlers as just obese guys trying push eachother around by leaning into eachother. The truth is they really are skilled athletes. Successful ones are able to focus and maintain there center of gravity on par with ballerinas. For such big guys they have incredible athleticism, tremendous balance and their reflexes are as impressive as any athlete in any sport.