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Good writeup on many of today's offensive and defensive concepts and their origins.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...innati-bengals
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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...innati-bengals
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No Huddle-He taught me a life lesson right then," Wyche remembers from his horse farm in Pickens, South Carolina. "What if we played at a tempo that didn't allow the time to recover? What if we snapped the ball 20 seconds after the defense was sprinting, instead of 30? We'd be playing a pretty tired defense. After a while, chronic fatigue would settle in, and the offense would have a decided advantage."
Wyche dabbled in the no-huddle the following year, when he took his first head-coaching gig at Indiana University. A season later, in 1984, he found himself running the Bengals and unleashed the no-huddle on his team during training camp.
Zone Blocking-Shanahan's Broncos and later Manning's Colts would essentially eradicate Cincinnati from receiving any notoriety for its developmental role in zone blocking. Perhaps if Ickey hadn't blown out his knee on the Riverfront Stadium concrete carpet in 1989, things might have been different.
Zone Blitzing-Because the Bengals played Houston and its "Run N Shoot" offense twice a year, and the West Coast offense had spread through the league, LeBeau needed ways to bring pressure without exposing his defensive backs. The Bengals didn't have a Lawrence Taylor or Richard Dent, so they had to manufacture heat with some experimental chemistry.
Wyche dabbled in the no-huddle the following year, when he took his first head-coaching gig at Indiana University. A season later, in 1984, he found himself running the Bengals and unleashed the no-huddle on his team during training camp.
Zone Blocking-Shanahan's Broncos and later Manning's Colts would essentially eradicate Cincinnati from receiving any notoriety for its developmental role in zone blocking. Perhaps if Ickey hadn't blown out his knee on the Riverfront Stadium concrete carpet in 1989, things might have been different.
Zone Blitzing-Because the Bengals played Houston and its "Run N Shoot" offense twice a year, and the West Coast offense had spread through the league, LeBeau needed ways to bring pressure without exposing his defensive backs. The Bengals didn't have a Lawrence Taylor or Richard Dent, so they had to manufacture heat with some experimental chemistry.