Tom Landry's BRILLIANT innovation of the Shotgun Spread REMASTERED!
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Narrator: The Logical Cowboy
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Landry was a brilliant, legendary coach!
He sure was!
The shotgun formation was not the only thing Landry changed the NFL with. He's responsible for the four three defense called the Flex defense. As the video said, most teams used only one or two line backers, Landry normally used three, leaving only four DBs behind those to defend the pass. His line backers covered up short pass routes on passing plays, making seven covering passes. On run plays it was seven guarding the scrimmage line. Thus the Flexing of the defense.
Also, no one had ever drafted an Olympic sprinter. Bob Hayes changed the concept of offense with receivers in a league where not many passes were yet thrown per game. And of course Hayes on the field led to zone defenses.
Lastly, when The Dallas Cowboys left the Cotton Bowl for the move to Texas Stadium it was to play in the first total dome. It was supposed to be a total dome with the first closing roof, but they would be another year later in the move, so they decided to forego the sliding roof. Even so the mostly protected field from wind and a roof over the spectators was the first. Soon another Texas team, Houston Oilers built the Astrodome which was the first total domed field and even played baseball in it, another first. Texas Stadium was an ideal between Landry and GM Tex Schram who's in the Canton HOF for his share of innovations.
Landry was not only a very brilliant, and innovative football coach, he was also passionate. He knew how to adjust and be creative on both offense and defense. Football was in his blood and in his veins.
Great post!
Landry was the man! 20 consecutive winning seasons.
Tom Landry coached the defense and the offense, no coach does that! truly legendary and he was literally 5 plays away from being the first coach to win 5 superbowls and having it be the Landry Trophy awarded to superbowl winners.
Facts! Thanks for watching
It was a terrific formation for Roger who loved it, and took to the shotgun like a duck to water. Interestingly, Aikman wanted no part of that formation, but he was no scrambler/runner like Staubach. Aikman was also exceptionally fast dropping back, which greatly helped defeat the rush.
Two great QB's with divergent opinions about the formation.
Good post!
I watched video of Aikman recently and saw that. He was super quick dropping back.
Coach Landry was a strategic visionary who designed offenses + defenses light-years ahead of the competition!
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Red Hickey worked for the Cowboys first as a coach then as a scout.
Greatest Coach Ever !!!!!!
Last time I checked, Bill Walsh had more Super Bowl wins than he did. 😅
Great Look at Landry as Coach.
Thanks Steve!
Great football mind. Both offense and defense he was brilliant.
He sure was! Thanks for watching 🙏
I'm not even a Cowboys fan but you have to acknowledge greatness when you see it. If you dropped Staubach in his prime into today's game with the rules totally favoring the offense what kind of numbers would he put up?
Great point!!
R. I. P.
TOM 🏈🇨🇱 LANDRY
LC, I don't know what your background is, but your research skills are off the charts as is your ability to summarize a ton of information both concisely AND completely. That's a dynamite combination. And understand, I lived most of this stuff since I started watching the cowboys when I was 7 back in '71, so I know what I'm talking about when I say you don't miss a thing.
Alright, enough azz-kissing. But make no mistake, I appreciate the hell out of your work here.
Thanks David!! Always appreciate your support 🙏. Trust me it means a lot!
Landry is one coach that can never be over rated. He was a football legend. The fans that don't recognize that are equivalent to the NBA fans that think LeBron is better than Bill Russell. Thank you for shining a new light on a greatness that should never be forgotten.
Thanks bro!
I always loved that shotgun formation back in the day. I think Staubach stood just a little further than Danny White, which may be why he had more low snaps than White. It was great for the QB to get a good view of the defense, and fewer steps to take back. Interestingly, Jimmy Johnson never used it in Dallas. But, it just goes to show how ahead of the times Landry was because nowadays every team not only uses it, but many teams have it as their base formation.
Great post Michael!
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Danny White as a quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys use to have 500 yard passing games. That's how the "shot gun" was absolute terror on the league and how far ahead his time he was.
After White’s first year, center John Fitzgerald retired and Tom Rafferty moved to center to replace him. That was also a factor. Fitzgerald was never super accurate with shotgun snaps.
Also Danny White never had a 400 yard passing game, let alone 500 yards. His career high was 377.
The team Jimmie and Jerry put together from 89-95 was brilliant but nothing compares to the Dallas Dynasty from 1966- 1985
I agree. To have 20 straight winning seasons is unbelievable in any sport!
Once again thank you. I recall that first year of the shotgun offense. ( -:
Thanks bro! 🙏
😂The shotgun is part of every offense now. Thanks Tom.
Tom Landry and Vince Lambordi were both coaches on the (1958?) New York Giants Championship team. Both are in the Hall of Fame. WOW.
My high school coach used the shotgun in 1968 and we used to have a screen pass from it to me (the fullback) - it opened up the defense so we usually picked up a lot of yards.
Wow! If you don't mind me asking who was your head coach? That's amazing!
It's a big secret, but I guess it's time to give it away. Landry and Bryant actually created the first version of AI to facilitate their drafts and come up with innovations on offense and defense. Yes world, ChatGBT owes its existence to America's Team.
That video is coming in a few weeks! Thanks for watching.
Whoa! Can't wait to see that one.
First, a.i. owes it's existence to sci-fi movies. I'm sensing this was posted by someone very preoccupied to get Gils name wrong. Anyho✌
R.I.P. Tom Landry.
Landry was so BRILLIANT.
Landry was so AHEAD OF HIS TIME, it took the NFL almost 30 years to catch up - and eventually surpass him!!!
SIDE NOTE:
1974 was when I became a Cowboys fan!!!
Thanksgiving day game "AFTER" Washington thought, if they knock Staubach out of the game (THEY DID), they would WIN (THEY DIDN'T)!!!
Brilliant! Thanks for this one.
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Hey, just wanted to say thanks for all the breakdown videos. Im a huge fan of historical football and i LOVE learning about all the evolutions of the game. Im glad someone like you is willing to put in the work to bring us this type of content. Thanks!
Thanks!!!
Since the early 1970's, the Cowboys are the standard all other teams aspire to be.
Landry and Lombardi got HC jobs at the same time. They exchanged playbooks, Lombardi stuck to Landry's Defense. Landry had a new team, so he scrapped Lombardi's offense and designed a new one.
I remember a game at Philadelphia in 1981, the year after the Eagles went to the Super Bowl, where Tom Landry completely outsmarted Dick Vermeil and his staff. Vermeil wasn't a slouch coach and the Eagles at that time were getting a lot of hype about getting home field for the playoffs. Landry and the Cowboys just made the Eagles coaches and players look completely incompetent.
Legend!
You are a blessing to us Cowboys fans!
Thanks bro 🙏
An NFL GOAT head coach
This was excellent DC4L
Dc4life!
Not a bad adjustment for someone considered a defensive genius with the flex D. I never did the homework but always thought the SG was the product of Staubach losing a step but I think it might have been an adjustment to faster defenses as well. This also makes me think of the success the 49ers had 10 yrs later with the 3,5,8 step drop timing passes they did. Both were developed for speed but opposite approaches. nIce upload.
Well said. Walsh was a genius. Maybe that's why he and Landry didn't have the best relationship. Lol
AN HONOR TO BE A TRUE BLUE COWBOYS FAN, 1977, TONY DORSETT YEAR ARRIVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And isn't 20 straight winning seasons still an NFL record
Yep. It sure is.
Bill Belichick came close as he had 19 season in a row but that streak ended in 2019. Given how remarkable the Patriot run was and how unlikely it is to be duplicated it's a good bet that record may never be broken. It's right up there with Emmitt's Rushing records and the receiving records of Jerry Rice.
No disrespect towards
what Coach Belichick,
Brady, and the Patriots
accomplished, but, as everyone knows..... the
AFC East, other than NE, has been one of the weakest divisions in the NFL going all the way back to the 1970
merger.🏈
@@t4texastom587 amen to that
Tomlin getting close
My Dad was a Cowboys fan and quit watching them when they dumped Landry. His Cowboys were the class of the league, compared to later teams who were the asses of the league.
I remember when i was younger, you rarely saw shotgun..now its common..we need some new innovators
As far as the NFL teams go it was the Sf 49ers who invented the shotgun formation under head coach Red Hickey.QB John Brodie was the first under Coach Hickey to use it in a game.
Tom Landry was a great, great coach and a fine human being. And Jerry Jones treated him like he was a nobody.
In my opinion, they should have named it the Landry trophy instead of the Lombardi trophy! Great video. You have a terrific narrating style and voice.
That would've been cool! Thanks for complement bro!
But I recall the Cowboys using the shotgun a little in 1967.
Actually he was using it back in 1961 to counter the bears blitzes. But like I alluded to in the video, in the 70s when landry implemented the shotgun, it was different from every other shotgun spread before him. For the first time Landry added the running back in the backfield. Unlike in previous years this version was to make his offense more explosive. The shotgun was really effective on third downs. Because landry utilized the shovel pass and the scrambling abilities of Roger Staubach on third downs the Cowboys offense was unpredictable.
Red Hickey didn't create the the Spread Shotgun offense. Leo "Dutch" Meyer did at TCU. Hickey got it from him. Landry did make some tweaks but it was still Dutch Meyer's offense
I always like the offensive line shuffle they rose up them down for some reason maybe I can find out in the comments yeah the shot gun was something that could have been a direct snap to the running back the wildcat I think I remember that's how Miami beat the Patriots I'm not sure but another great one dude waiting on the Robert Newhouse that one is going to be interesting lol I'm picking a song I think I can get some views I'll see what happens
Thanks bro! Keep going! You got this!
The line came up and stood in a two point stance with their hands on their knees but not on the ground. As the backs and receivers would go into motion or shift they would stand straight up while the shift was on to mask what was happening behind the line before going into their final three point stance. It was done to hide the shifts and confuse the defenses and for a long time it was damn effective.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I think the boys were the only team that did it especially effectively
Cowboys were the 3rd best team in the 70s
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Shotgun only works if your quarterback has great footwork in the pocket. You cant be a statue.
Very interesting video. Alignment is spelled a-l-i-g-n-m-e-n-t.
You're talking about the Washington post quote? I didn't spell that. All I did was post their quote. Lol It's the original quote. Go back 48 years ago and sue them.
His players did not like him, like the Packers adored coach Lombardi.
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Football players had heart back then...
They sure did!
As old School Cowboys Fan, meaning my first game I watch was 1967 NFL Championship THE ICE BOWL. The First SuperBowl I watch 1970/71 SB5 /Colts Cowboys.
I mention these 2 Games. Currently the NFL has Ranked them as 2 of the Greatest NFL games ever Played. IceBowl the coldest SB5 The hardest Hitting Game in NFL History.
Many people don't know Tom Landry was a running Back for the NY Giants. Coached by Vince Lombardi. Later on Landry became a Player / Coach on the Gaints with Lombardi taking Landry under his wing. Having all this as a person that one day was going to be a Coach in the NFL. Having Lombardi as your Teacher I think we can all agree u can't get better than that. The player/Coach gives an added insight to Landrys innovative Play designs that 60+ yrs Later are still used today by many other teams. So Much for the Cowboy Haters! Your team not only used Landry designed plays its likely ur Team had a Cowboy coach or player ie Mike Dika 85 Bears as ur Coach.
You said it perfectly when the Cowboys lost Landry went to the lab adjusting his own plays. till he perfected them.
It's why I always Says the 2 greatest games the Cowboys ever played? Icebowl & SB5. COWBOYS LOST BOTH.
But if you understand Landry's mind & his way of playing & Coaching. Landry from games 67 & 70/71 started what the Cowboy had long before Jerry Jones & Jimmy Johnson. No it was during a Game that they were 1 second from winning against the World Champions Green Bay Packers in -25 -40 windchill. Then in 71 SB5 Cowboys 1st SB against the world Champion Baltimore Colts with Coach Shula QB Johnny Unitis. A game where players started with Broken arms and Legs from the most Completive Season in NFL history today. Both QB's Knock out carried on Strechers. RB's head on Collision s that today would be a Felony no Turftoe was not a term then. Colt Linebacker Mike Curtis almost decapitated 2 player with 1 second left Cowboys winning , lost by a rookie kicker replacing the the 😅injured kicker.
The Most Valuable Player not only went to a Defensive Player. But to the Defensive player of the losing Team LB#54 Chuck Holley. That's all you need to know why it was a war Zone on the Field.
But those losses Made the Cowboys theirl begins to their real Dynasty .
Great post!
@thelogicalcowboy Thanks You want to read The Cowboys and Doomday. Mostly it's about My all time Favorite Cowboy. The Very first Cowboy. A Cowboy Tom Landry stated The Greatest Cowboy. The NFL Called him Mr. COWBOY!
LC's great assessment of my favorite head coach. He was not only a top innovator but he understood that football teams we're always trying to short-circuit new schemes. And one had to stay of trends. Thank you!!
Thanks Aaron! Great point!
This was deep all I can say is with every video I’m impressed with the details you bring and the history please don’t stop and keep up the good work this is coming from a 45 years a cowboys fan
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Yessir my brother great video 👏🏿
Thanks bro!
Guys and girls, don't forget he created the 4/3 defense while with the Giants. Some variations of it today is still being used. I am glad he was the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for twenty seasons.
Yep I have that video as well on my channel. Check it out.
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49ers head coach Red Hickey was the NFL head coach who first introduced the shotgun formation to the NFL.
Having watched the last game, the Cowboys were already eliminated by the Raiders game. They played a considerable number of backups in that game. (It was a night game, and apparently teams that needed to lose for Dallas to get into the playoffs had won.)
Great Video!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks CJ!
it's "alignment" not alinement.
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480p. Why put up pages of stats? 🙈
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Bro its your upload. Can do 8k everywhere. Not on your video though - you have it at 480p.
I'm not particularly a Cowboys fan, but you consistently put out the best content. It's well thought out and explained without dumbing the information down.
Just thought you should know.
Thanks bro 🙏 it means a lot!