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“Vision without execution is hallucination.” —Thomas Edison”
― The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL
― The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL
“At first Shaughnessy ran the same formations he always had, but during that first season, he realized that speed runner Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch would be a better receiver than a running back. He converted Hirsch to a flanker and thus created the three-receiver formation as a base offensive concept.”
― The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL
― The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL
“Hadl threw the ball just 204 times in three seasons at Kansas as a running back and quarterback, so it was a bit like going straight from high school to a post-graduate education. Gillman taught Hadl that if a defender was looking at the running back, it was man-to-man coverage.”
― The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL
― The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL
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