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from the book "Blood, Sweat, and Chalk, The Ultimate Football Playbook: How The Great Coaches Built Today's Game" by Tim Layden. Tim basically broke down all of the different fads or styles of football from the Single Wing, to the Wishbone, West Coast Offense, to the Zone Read, etc. He spoke to the experts, creators, and/or guru's of each phase like Don Coryell for the "Air Coryell" chapter and Dick LeBeau for the the "Zone Blitz" chapter. I saw this from the "Cover 2" where he mostly spoke with Monte Kiffin about his Tampa 2:

Think of these as the Five Commandments of the Tampa Two:

1) The front four must be able to rush the quarterback, allowing the linebackers freedom.

2) The middle linebacker must be able, and willing, to frequently drop as deep as 30 yards, filling the deep crossing zone between the safeties, and leaving many of the glamour plays - helmet-popping tackles, interceptions-to the outside linebackers and safeties. "My primary purpose in that defense is to run back to the huddle and congratulate somebody for making a play while I was running down the field with the tight end," says Brian Urlacher.

3) The outside linebackers have to be smart enough and athletic enough to not only cover receivers in the middle zone but also to rally to the runs at the line of scrimmage.

4) The cornerbacks must by physical enough to jam wideouts at the line of scrimmage and also to tackle ballcarriers.

5) The safeties must be smart enough to break properly on the balls in the air and physical enough to create, and survive, the violent collisions with wide receivers that happen when the safety has run 25 yards from his deep starting position.

Also saw this in that same chapter:

In 2006 the woeful Detroit Lions hired Rod Marinelli from Tampa Bay as their head coach, and Marinelli then drafted lightning-quick 230-pound middle linebacker Ernie Sims from Florida State to play the Lambert-Urlacher role with the Lions.


Great book if you like the history of football and the various schemes that have dominated the game.
 

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Sounds like Dallas has at least some of those pieces......except safety and DL.
 

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Sounds like Dallas has at least some of those pieces......except safety and DL.

The 2002 Bucs that won the Super Bowl, their Dline didn't have all four players that could consistantly rush the QB; they had two: Sapp and Rice. The Cowboys have two: Ratliff and Ware. I think Hatcher is more of a consistant pass rusher than Booger McFarland, and Spires was nothing to write home about.

I tell you what though... this is where we could really use a young Greg Ellis.
 
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Monte Kiffin so old God gave him The 10 Commandments!

Ohhhh!!!

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The Tim Leyden book is very good, u can probably find it used at this point.

Worth the couple of hours to read.
 
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The 2002 Bucs that won the Super Bowl, their Dline didn't have all four players that could consistantly rush the QB; they had two: Sapp and Rice. The Cowboys have two: Ratliff and Ware. I think Hatcher is more of a consistant pass rusher than Booger McFarland, and Spires was nothing to write home about.

I tell you what though... this is where we could really use a young Greg Ellis.

I'm not sure how much you can count on Ratliff anymore. His best days are behind him.
 
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In 2006 the woeful Detroit Lions hired Rod Marinelli from Tampa Bay as their head coach, and Marinelli then drafted lightning-quick 230-pound middle linebacker Ernie Sims from Florida State to play the Lambert-Urlacher role with the Lions.

I remember all the Derek Brooks comparisons when Sims was drafted, and he is one of the first guys I thought of when we signed Kiffin. But..... he's too concussed IMO.
 

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I'm not sure how much you can count on Ratliff anymore. His best days are behind him.

we'll see I guess...last yr once he got on the field in preseason he looked great, then proceeded to get hurt in that game and continued to get hurt the remainder of the year

if he's healthy, there's no doubt this scheme could be great for him, at least in a rotational/pass rush role
 
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