Not only will the Kansas City Chiefs be paying close attention to what Michael Vick does each time he comes into the game, the rest of the National Football League will monitoring it closely.
The NFL is a copycat league, so teams are looking for ideas to implement in the Wildcat offense and they’re also wanting to study how to stop it.
If Vick has a big day, it could be another step in a minor NFL revolution. Everybody is going to running some form of the Wildcat in 2010.
I predict that in next year’s draft, there will be ratings for drop back quarterbacks and there will be ratings for Wildcat quarterbacks. The Wildcat quarterbacks might not valued as much as the drop back quarterbacks right now, but in a few years they may be valued more.
You can tell that offense is being sold to teams around the league and the coaches are starting to buy.
There’s an article on Philly.com this morning and former Raiders and Tampa Bay head coach Jon Guden espouses all of the pluses of the Wildcat or Spread Eagles offense or whatever else you want to call it.
Gruden is a long time friend of Andy Reid’s, so I’m sure Reid has been selling him on it. Gruden has bought it now he will be selling the nation on it.
It’s already taken over college football. A lot of the top teams are running some form of it.
Think about it, Florida’s Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow might not have been selected in the first round in this April’s draft because not a lot of teams had bought onto the Wildcat offense.
Now, Tebow could be wind up being the first player picked in the draft because coaches throughout the NFL have seen a glimpse of the problems that the Wildcat can cause and they’re looking for players with both the athleticism and throwing ability to run it.
I know Tebow suffered a concussion last night but that’s no problem if you have two or three players on the team who can run the Wildcat. If one guy gets injured, you just throw another player in there.
