Last season, the Miami Dolphins shocked the NFL world by not only making the post-season, but winning the AFC East, yes, the same AFC East that the New England Patroits are apart of. What will the Dolphins do for an encore? Many figure that they’ll have a hard time repeating the results from a season ago and that’s understandable. The Dolphins introduced an offensive scheme that resembled something fresh out of college, the Wildcat. Usually when a scheme like that comes around, it takes defenses two weeks tops to adapt and shut it down. However, that did not happen with the Dolphins. Whenever defenses countered, the Dolphins introduced a new staple of the Wildcat, thus leaving defenses lost and speechless.

What kind of staples will the Miami Dolphins have added for the 2009-10 season? To be short, they drafted multi-treat quarterback Pat White from West Virgina in the second round of the NFL Draft. Not only is he a threat to break off big runs at any given time, he spent his senior season showing teams he is capable of throwing the deep ball and being accurate at it while doing so. Because of that, defenses will have a hard time keying in on Pat White, thus making the Wildcat offensive scheme even tougher to defend. Is this a new chapter in how NFL offenses will begin scheming and running plays? Or is just a one-hit-wonder sort of thing and it’ll die out as fast as the option offense did?

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