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

  • BuBBles_the_pyro@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • CasualRead_43@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Go for it on 4th and 4 and under every time and never kick extra points. Onside kick ever seems to be dead with the new rules though.

  • ViolentAmbassador@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • bsgreene25@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • Impressive-Cry-9128@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • senorvato@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    More Refrigerator Perry type plays. Use an athletic 300 lb man to either take the snap or handoff and get those short yards.

  • Stompthefeet@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • AlternativeDamage986@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you’re down a TD, you just scored, there is 2:15 minutes remaining you have two timeouts, and you need a stop, go for the onside. You need a stop or it’s over anyway so who cares where the ball is on the field? It drives me crazy how many coaches refuse to take the flier of an onside rather than wasting the kick into the endzone.