Dolphins have mastered the Wildcat
Just as most of the teams around the football betting league that have experimented with the novelty of the Wildcat formation and given up on it, the Dolphins seem to be ramping up its usage. In the recent win over the Jets the Fins lined up in the single wing 16 times which very well may be a modern era football sports betting record.
Most teams call the formation a ‘gimmick’ and use it a few times a game it at all. But the Miami Dolphins have buttered their bread with this formation all football betting season and by all indications will continue to do so. Even when their sports betting opponents all have ample tape of team’s plays out of the Wildcat it continues to succeed. So why does it work for the Dolphins and no one else?
One of the reasons is personnel. The Dolphins have to two of the toughest backs to bring down in the league with Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams forming the 1-2 punch that makes the whole thing work. Give these guys ball out of a double tight end formation and 99% of the time they’ll get at three yards.
The other reason why the Fins have found football sports betting success in the formation is the fact that they’re perhaps the only team in the league that has been truly committed to running it.
Any formation that’s used 16 times in a game can hardly be called a gimmick and because of Miami’s dearth of receiving talent they’re going to get as much mileage out of the Wildcat as humanly possible –they simply don’t have many other options on offense.
