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Ram Fan Teacher
You're right. It was Saunders not White.
It wasn't small adjustments to Vermeil's previous offense. Martz brought his offensive philosophy with him and took the 99 offense to an all new level. Nothing in the previous year's offense would remind anyone of the 1999 offense.
I remember Vermeil talking about how he took Mike Martz's offense with him to KC. He knew it would be a good fit with the personnel they had there and Priest Holmes had all the tools to do what Faulk did in the offense.
We just have some subtle differences on this one. It was the same system in KC that DV had before and with Martz. A Coryell system. In fact that was the reason Vermeil gave for hiring Martz over Matt Cavanaugh (the other OC candidate). MC ran a WCO, and with Martz they would not have to switch systems.
No one ever argues that the offensive attack was the same in 97-98...but it was the same system. Clearly Martz brought his own playcalling style (although we have plenty of examples from DV miked up setting the frame for the offensive attack). But also before Martz, Bruce had been out of commission, they didn't have Green, they did have Warner but it was his first year in the NFL, Bruce had been out of commission, they hadn't drafted Holt, and they hadn't traded for Faulk.
So Vermeil did not take Martz's offense to KC, he took
a Coryell style offense. Saunders was his own guy. They signed Priest Holmes AFTER DV arrived though yes DV saw he could be a lead back. But then DV had success years before in Phil with Wilbert Montgomery, who was a 6th round pick. The KC offense was actually different from Martz's version of the Coryell offense--it relied more on a
stellar OL, the running game, and Gonzalez, and never really had the receivers.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2018 04:55PM by zn.