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Originally Posted by barrett
Bringing in Jumbo lineman will tip the defense of our intention to run and make it even harder to run. I don't know of one NFL team that brings in different OL to run the ball or for short yardage. Not one.
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No other teams are running the wildcat as often as Miami. There has never been this many young head coaches in the league either. Now it has become popular. Also having two (and sometimes three) good backs by committee was not all that common a while back either. Now almost everyone has two good backs (besides us).
All that to say, someone had to start the trend. Who knows we may start the next trend.
So what other teams do or don't do is of little concern to me.
As far as tipping off the other team; for a large majority of the league (outside us), anything less than a yard is almost an automatic run anyway. So we just need to find a way (whatever works
for us).
And I am not saying that the entire line needs to be replaced on short yardage. (specifically goal line situations) Maybe our weak links, or areas where the opposing DLineman is "massive".