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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Never punt. Like, don’t even waste a roster spot on the position
More Refrigerator Perry type plays. Use an athletic 300 lb man to either take the snap or handoff and get those short yards.
always take the field goal, the second your on the 40 yard line, get your kicker out. Do this everytime to get the points (especially if your offense is terrible).
Have more back passes, if you have wr1 with the ball deep, have a wr2 behind them so they can throw the ball behind and go onto score a touch down.
Rugby type maul, get 3 O lineman behind a TE, give the ball to the TE and then get the O line to hold them up and keep pushing forward.
Another rugby style, on the restart, have your kicker kick high and semi deep so that your 2 fastest guys have a chance of catching it, I reckon you get a better % of keeping the ball than those silly on-side kicks.
RB’s being trained to throw out of bounds if they’re gonna get tackled for a loss
This!! Only problem is you may have lineman downfield on a run play and that would be a penalty.
Good idea but the rules don’t allow anyone but the player that received the snap to throw the ball away.
If this happens they’ll quickly adopt the college rule that would make it intentional grounding
I want more madden cheese in the NFL. Like a team that literally only has 3 personnel packages, 6 unique formations and maybe like 8 plays per formation, many of which are duplicative from one formation to another. And each game they just find the plays that are working that day and just spam them to hell in hurry up.
More downfield laterals
I always wanted to see a team take OL out and put more speed on the field in late game lateral play situations. Then the Cowboys put Zeke at center and I learned why they don’t do that.
No punting. Ever. EVER!
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.
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.
Would be insane run blockers, but not sure how they’d handle pass blocking
Yeah, wonder how well they’d move laterally. Then again, at 6’6" & 450lbs, they wouldn’t have to move to far.
DT…. A 400 pounder in a 3-4 D. Would eat double teams
It’s not that gimmicky but I really want triple option to come back
I would like to see the Chiefs run Pacheco up the middle on 3rd and 1. I realize this sounds like crazy talk. You’re saying to yourself, “everyone knows you run a long developing play on 3rd and 1 and throw a 40 yard pass downfield”, but hear me out…what if we just run the ball for 1-2 yards then get a new set of downs?
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.
Winning.