In any event, you’re still faster than the offense.

Have the linemen kill the dive read every time, have players able to tackle in space crashing the other reads from outside in.

-The use of multiple backs as running threats throws up defenses designed to stop the tailback only; today’s NFL is one where only one position on the field carries the ball.

-The use of a two-tight end set challenges defenses who spend most of their time working to stop the pass against a three- or four-receiver package. Instead of just goal-line and max-protect situations, the defense now has to defend a tight power package all over the field.

I’m still amazed Miami can run two distinct offenses on the same team. That’s a lot of practice time, academic learning, and coaching dynamics.

I believe when Cobbs went out, they replaced him with Brian Hartline, a backup WR who they use in alot of blocking situations. When they went into their 2-TE, 1-FB sets early in the game, it was Hartline, not Ginn or Camarillo or Bess who was out.

-The whole idea of the option is to not block one player and run where he ain’t, so you are really playing with a numbers advantage with the option principle.

-In the NFL, land of the cover corner, the single wing’s unpredictable combination of power, misdirection and outside running means that two defenders (the corners, who don’t like to be blocked and have gotten away with ignoring run responsibilities) are virtual nonfactors when it comes to stopping plays at the point of attack.

-Further, the Dolphins deploying lots of backs means they get athletic, agile players blocking agile defensive backs. They don’t need to send a tight end or interior lineman to kill a fly with a bazooka when a stalk-blocking or crackbacking back can do the job.

-Of course, the ‘Fins have to find enough good backs to run the thing competently and hope nobody gets hurt:

“My friend Jerry Gordon speculated that this might be particularly taxing on NFL teams because of the strict 53 man roster limits.”

When I read this, I thought you were saying that the scheme taxed the Dolphins’ offensive personnel rather than the Jets defense. This sentence unwittingly highlights the burnout factor of the single wing. The system now is comparatively unsophisticated at the pro level. As the system is coached up and refined, the dropoff gets bigger when somebody gets injured. That’s not a big deal now, but if Miami spends lots of time this season coaching up the Wildcat, Ronnie Brown gets hurt and Chad Henne can’t make up for it with the “regular” package there will be a backlash.

What’s odd about this is that single-wing/Wildcat critics will cite this as evidence the scheme is a “gimmick” dependent upon a perfect storm of players to be run properly – but won’t apply the same criticism to the overcoached, highly quarterback-intensive “NFL Offense” that can’t be run by more than three or four QBs each season.

As long as we are on the topic, let’s be honest about the PR factor. If Miami wasn’t being run by a proven winner in Bill Parcells, critics saying that the Dolphins were mavericks and hacks who didn’t fit into the NFL Way of Doing Things would probably be front and center.

The pendulum swings: getting enough good players to fill those single-wing positions eventually pushed everyone into more divided-labor offenses, the last of whom was UCLA under Red Sanders. (Chris, correct me if I’m wrong).

Well the owner is Daniel Snyder who doesn’t have a clue on how to run a team, let alone give up control to someone who is far more qualified to run the team.

Of course not, and no one should be surprised. It’s the Redskins, they are a poorly run team so they do stupid things all the time because that’s what poorly run teams do.