Week 3: Dixie State at UC Davis Take this with a grain of salt, I’m not a football expert, but I’ve watched a game at the Holiday Inn.
Fly sweeps have become commonplace, what’s rarer is for teams to commit to it, so that motion is part of virtually every play. Then the motion of the fly guy is the threat is always there, and other plays success is partially attributable to the defense having to defend against the threat of the fly guy getting the ball.
An analogy is in the wishbone offense the base play is the dive of the fullback, which either occurs or is faked virtually every play.
Our team is a multiple offense team, among other things we run fly offense plays.
Wildcat means various things. Initially it was run with an unbalanced line, with a running back behind center, and the running back took the snap. There was often fly motion involved in the play. In that case it’s easy to identify by formation.
Now you often see it run from a balanced line, and formation wise it’s not that distinctive. We used to substitute the quarterback, and now sometimes we do sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we have the QB just move from behind center prior to the snap, and use the same personnel, usually with two tight ends which we can run other plays with.
With TT, it gets more confusing. He may run out of any of our formations, planned or unplanned. If it’s a planned run with run blocking of the line and no pass deception, it’s fair to call it a wildcat
play.if anyone has noticed something in our wildcat formation that defines it as wildcat, please chime in.