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I assume you mean Johnson in Dallas, so I will address it that way. Jimmy was a defensive guru. That's not a label. His "upfield pressure" model revolutionized defense. "Read and react" is gone today, and most every team whether it be a 3-4 or a 4-3, whether it be college and even high school...

When is the last time we actually beat them?

In response to, a debilitated QB who needs alot more protection than he was getting. We may never know if Tony hadn't needed the surgery, would the philosophy have changed. It's sort of a moot point. I give Linehan credit for being the man who had the answer to the problem, how to better...

None of those compare to what invasive, gut 'em like a fish lower back surgery does, man. Tony said it many times himself - he even had to change how he gets into and out of bed. Few people survive that same surgery with anywhere near the mobility they had before it. It is life changing...

It's the way you run it, not necessarily how many times. Injury prone Murray got through the season with just a broken bone in his hand. This does NOT of course, say the extra hits due to extra carries isn't cumulative, that it won't shorten a career. It does add up.

And drafting three offensive linemen in the first round wasn't part of a grand strategic plan to go smash mouth, either. That's been well covered here.

All I'm saying is, the main driver for going run first was Tony's back situation, not some core philosophical belief of the coaches. New ones, old ones, NONE of them were run first, smash mouth gurus.

Linehan and..... Tony's debilitating surgery.

Historically, it hasn't. They are initiating contact more often, not being the recipient of it nearly as much. Also - lookie here, it might not have been until after the SF game, where this "great philosophical shift" took place - might have been when actually, they realized Tony wasn't good to...

He happened to be the one to raise his hand and say "hey, let's play smash mouth." Hell, could even have been Jerruh for all we know. They were faced with a "Steve Austin, Astronaut" situation, but found out we actually CAN'T rebuild him, this 50 million dollar man. Therefore we gotta find a...

No, not running it less. Running it as a afterthought. As a secondary weapon. In pass-first schemes when running the ball isn't the priority, you have less aggressive linemen and RBs. When you are tentative out there, you are more injury prone. When downhill running and smash mouth is the main...

He came to us after Tony's surgery, and the severity of the issue was known. And apparently had Carrot Top's answer. Garrett sure as hell didn't have the answer.

That attack philosophy seems to help RBs avoid injury as well. It's no coincidence that Murray has stayed more healthy in attack mode all the time, instead of half assed running game. It's made him more aggressive. Every time I mention that, people go apeshit for some reason. But it's true.

My hangup is I don't give any of these fucks credit for anything. I think they stumbled into all we're seeing. They found a acorn. Success has many fathers, again.

Where was this run-first philosophy last year then? Okay, so Linehan was the smart guy in the room who meekly raised his hand in answer to Carrot Top's "Oh shit what now" question, when faced with the severity and degree of Tony's back. He meekly raised his hand and said "How about we just go...

Hey, dicknose. The 1962 original march is cool and drips with nostalgia.

It just so happened we had a stove up star QB and THEN we went run-first. Instead of doing it immediately, last year. Not buying.

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It's the motive I have doubts about. Actually, I have no doubt. Tony was stove up. Therefore we need to run the ball alot more. That was the philosophy. The dominoes then started to fall as run-first improved everything.