I, I, I often think about how similar was Tampa 2 that you were playing in the mid-'90s down there to the Tampa, to the Cover 2 that you guys played in Pittsburgh? Is it the exact same defense?
I went to, uh, Minnesota, and I didn't know anything about over and under front, up front.
Monte Kiffin was there already, and he had done a great job in the run game with the fronts, and he had never played Cover 2.
He teaches me the run fronts, I teach him the coverage, and we end up leading the NFL in defense with the Vikings.
Now, we've got Chris Doleman and John Randle [laughs] and Henry Thomas and some really, really good players, but- Uh, people hadn't seen that in about 15 years, so we have some success with it.
Monte agrees to come with me to Tampa and put it in, and we put it in exactly like we put it in in Minnesota, exactly like we played it in Pittsburgh, but now we've got John Lynch, Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp.
Uh, we just have this- the right personnel, the right mentality, with the right X's and O's.
I, I, I often think about how similar was Tampa 2 that you were playing in the mid-'90s down there to the Tampa, to the Cover 2 that you guys played in Pittsburgh? Is it the exact same defense?
I went to, uh, Minnesota, and I didn't know anything about over and under front, up front.
Monte Kiffin was there already, and he had done a great job in the run game with the fronts, and he had never played Cover 2.
He teaches me the run fronts, I teach him the coverage, and we end up leading the NFL in defense with the Vikings.
Now, we've got Chris Doleman and John Randle [laughs] and Henry Thomas and some really, really good players, but- Uh, people hadn't seen that in about 15 years, so we have some success with it.
Monte agrees to come with me to Tampa and put it in, and we put it in exactly like we put it in in Minnesota, exactly like we played it in Pittsburgh, but now we've got John Lynch, Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp.
Uh, we just have this- the right personnel, the right mentality, with the right X's and O's.
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