Miami Dolphins face-off with Patriots on 10th anniversary of the “Wild Cat”

This week the Miami Dolphins will face-off with the New England Patriots, on the anniversary of the history changing “wild cat” game.

In what feels like decades ago,10 long years in reality, that’s how long it has been since the Miami Dolphins walked out of Foxboro with a win. The year of the “wild cat”.

The offense in 2008 was led by quarterback Chad Pennington, but in the “wild cat” package running back Ronnie Brown would line up as the quarterback in the shot-gun formation, and Ricky Williams would run toward Brown at full speed from the wide-out position. This formation was used to keep the New England defense off-balance, and it did just that.

Then head coach Tony Sparano called the wild-cat on 6 plays for 118 yards and 4 touch downs, those 6 plays made NFL history, as the Miami Dolphins defeated the New England Patriots and advanced to the play-offs that year.

Now here we are 10 years later, in an anniversary game with the Patriots, with the same fire, and the same passion that now burns in head coach Adam Gase. There is no Ronnie Brown this time, but there is an Albert Wilson who threw his first touchdown pass last week to Jakeem Grant in a win over the Oakland Raiders. And on a shuttle pass in the backfield ran another for 75 yards also for a touchdown.

This 2018 team is every bit as talented as the 2008 Dolphins who beat Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in 2008. Will history rewrite its self?

Adam Gase knows very well the history of the wild cat, as well as the importance of this game, and what it can do to put him in a 31/2 game lead in the AFC East, ahead of New England. But what will he bring? What present does he have all wrapped up, waiting to give to the Patriots on this anniversary? Another “Wild-Cat” in the box? What ever it is, Adam Gase is holding the power to rewrite the future of the Miami Dolphins.