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Originally Posted by Rain Man
One of the biggest things to me is that I can't predict blitzes now. It used to drive me crazy in the Gunther Cunningham days when a blitzer would run up to the line five seconds before the snap and then jump around staring at the quarterback the entire time. The quarterback would then throw it to some guy who moved into that vacated spot and I would be sad because everyone except Gunther knew what was going to happen.
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100%. I used to yell at the tv about it. Hated the fact that I not only knew when we were going to blitz every time, but knew exactly how we were going to do it just about every time.
Sutton wasn't any better. Always trying to fit square pegs in round holes, leaving talent on the shelf because of the above, predictable unimaginative play-calling of a 12-year-old . . .
Spags turned the defense into a resilient, aggressive, unpredictable, situationally proficient unit, even with wholesale turnover twice in just 4 years.
The man deserves more credit than what he gets from Chief Fan.