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Derek "The Comfort" Mumford

The Single Wing

So by now we all know about the single wing or Miami’s “wild cat” offense. What we don’t know is why every team with a quality two-headed RB attack doesn’t try it at least once. The dolphins can run this offense to a tee because they have a perfect fit with Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams in the backfield. Other teams desperate for offensive production have tried this attack as well, including Oakland. Why not the Vikings (Peterson/C. Taylor), Tampa (Graham/Dunn), or Dallas (Barber/F. Jones)? I heard the comment of “well if you have an established offense you don’t need to run this set” or something similar. Why not? You don’t like yards and TD’s? Miami has 5 TD’s rushing and 2TD’s passing, one of which was a sweet 80yd flee-flicker this past Sunday against the Texans. Basically any team with a backfield by committee setup should be the first to ride the coat tails of this idea (“It’s a copy-cat league, Tony” – PTI, Michael Wilbon) along with them, teams with a solid No.2 back. Personally I would love to see this single wing set run by the Eagles. Think about it, in six games, pretty much split down the middle with 3 a piece; Brian Westbrook and Correll Buckhalter are averaging game totals of 100yds, 2Td and 125yds 1Td respectively. Odds of this set being seen out of Philly don’t look good with Andy Reid at the helm, but that’s another argument.

Other double threat backfields; JAC (Jones-Drew/Taylor), BUF (Lynch/Jackson), SD (LT/Sproles), CAR (Williams/Stewart), NO (Bush/McAllister), IND (Addai/Rhodes)