If you were watching the Buffalo Bills take on the New England Patriots last weekend (and you were, weren’t you?) you noticed some throwback football. Both teams (the Patriots due to their depleted quarterback situation, and the Bills because they love the running game) were making calls straight out of the Air Force playbook (or Navy, as Bill Belichick would have it). The Bills sprinkled some triple option and some single-wing into their playbook last week, and the Patriots did likewise (with less success).
That said, the direct-snapping package the Bills ran on six plays for 38 yards was not a true “Wildcat” formation - and quarterbacks coach David Lee, the so-called “Godfather” of the package, would know.