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This is absurd. 400+ pages, 20 MB PDF. Nerdy, but awesome.

http://chrisgossett.com/1999%20St.%20Lo ... ffense.pdf

Great find!

No wonder the Rams passed on certain WR's. Learning all that stuff would put serious wrinkles in your brain.

That is pretty cool.

When I was a kid .. 4-5 grade, I wrote my own playbook for a league that never was formed in my neighboorhood. I remember asking for and getting a chalk board for Christmas for the task. There was a book that I had read in 3rd grade .. I can not remember what it was called but it had a picture of a Chiefs/Vikings game on the front. It was so cool, it sent through a diary of a week in the life of an NFL team, how the practices were organized and such. Then they went into the play calling in the huddle, running through a sequence of plays and how they would sound. I still remember the first play of the hypothetical game in the book:

I-right, motion weak, 33 dive on 2.

The name of the book was something like "Inside the NFL" or something ... if anyone remembers it let me know.

Once I understood the numbering and such I was ready to devise my own playbook. I probably had 50 pages, but I remembered quickly realizing that hitting a moving target was difficult and lobbied to restrict defenses to a 4-3 in this league that never took off. I would draw stuff up on the chalkboard that would work great until I moved guys around on defense and then it was difficult to figure out who was to block whom.

So stuff like this is cool to me.

I was never organized enough to put together a playbook but I loved to draw up plays when I was a kid. And would run to school pretending I was Walter Payton dodging tacklers.

lukethedrifter wrote:I was never organized enough to put together a playbook but I loved to draw up plays when I was a kid. And would run to school pretending I was Walter Payton dodging tacklers.

I loved drawing up the power sweep with the two pulling guards. Center and tackle blocked down, fullback picked up the DE over the tackle that blocked down, TE got to the outside shoulder of the OLB and those two guards lead the way to paydirt. Nobody blocked who was over them and it was just a thing of beauty.

Where did the old Vince Lombardi power sweep go anyway?

Hey-o! Martz is taking his playbook to Chicago

Vermeil stakes his own reputation on Martz being right guy for job.

Faulk says Bears weak O-line will [expletive] over Martz's playbook


I dunno - Martz + Cutler = ????

I was at a preseason game where Joe Germaine was basically cut on the spot for not "getting" the Martz schemata. Not that Cutler could be cut or anything...

plus can Martz and Lovie back together, role-reverasal.

This ought to be interesting

more faulk on Mad Mike and the Bears

"The learning curve is based on Cutler, and what his abilities are. I mean, he's a Vanderbilt guy, he should be able to digest it in a week."

Faulk is right about the OL. Cutler did pretty well while running for his life.

That receiver corps was a bit thin too.

Radio_Bugtussle wrote:Faulk is right about the OL. Cutler did pretty well while running for his life.

That receiver corps was a bit thin too.

Cutler played behind the best offensive line in football in Denver, with fantastic receivers, and he still was only a middle of the road quarterback. His football IQ is sub-zero.

Socnorb11 wrote:

Radio_Bugtussle wrote:Faulk is right about the OL. Cutler did pretty well while running for his life.

That receiver corps was a bit thin too.

Cutler played behind the best offensive line in football in Denver, with fantastic receivers, and he still was only a middle of the road quarterback. His football IQ is sub-zero.

Dude was just learning the ways of the NFL during his Donkey days. I'm glad Cutler is out of the AFC West. He made us nervous over here in Chiefdom...

Getting out from under the shadow of Elway The Great may not be a bad thing either. Fair or not, Bronco fans were going to start the Cutler-Elway comparisons pretty soon.