Who Else Misses the I-Formation?

Who Else Misses the I-Formation?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
More so than even college football versus professional football, where
a lot of the schemes that college football kind of
championed now has kind of worked their way into the pros.
A lot of read option, a lot of RPOs, run
pass option stuff that has become a lot more prevalent
than just the typical I formation pro offense that you see.
You know, it seems archaic now when it really was

(00:22):
the norm fifteen years ago. But college basketball, I mean
it's a completely different game in world than how the
NBA operates.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I do miss a good eye formation. Let me tell
you me too.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Whenever anybody pulls like a true fullback end and it's
not like it's not an extra lineman, it's not a
tight end, it's a fullback, and they put them in
the backfield. Oh, I get excited.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Give me give me a split back formation, you know.
Oh you want there in the split back, the split back. Yeah,
give me Mike all stot all slot all stot all
stot there, all stot give me Mike alsto warick done
and work done. In a split back formation. You want
lightning or thunder? Oh boy, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah,

(01:04):
those were the good old days Brad Johnson under center.
Who cares about Brad Johnson?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You can win a Super Bowl with Brad Johnson when
you got Warwick done and Mike Alstatt the split back
behind you.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh yeah, and that defense too, that helps too. But yeah,
I don't know, it's weird. It helps me.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You have Simeon Rice and Warren Sapp and Derrek Brooks
and Dexter Jackson back there and.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Barber right, Yeah, does not hurt one bit.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
That was a good team.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh so it didn't hurt that they knew what the
Raiders were going to do in that Super Bowl. I'm
not still bitter about that at all. Well, did they know?
Or if you talk to Tim Brown, my favorite Raider
of all time, great wide receiver, he'll literally say, yes,
they knew, because was it John grudin? I knew it
was Okay, Long story short. Bill Callahan was the OC

(01:50):
for John Gruden the year before for the Raiders. John
Gruden moves to the Bucks, takes the Bucks to the
Super Bowl, they play the Raiders, and the Raiders never
changed their audibles or any of the play calls that
they used the year before under Bill Callahan. So when
it would get called out of the huddle and when
he would call out audibles on the field of the
defense had two weeks to prepare rich Gannon everything. Rich

(02:11):
Gannon said, the Buccaneers defense already knew the lingo, the
language for and knew exactly where to be on every
single play. And that's why it was a blowout and
not still better at all, but.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Just everybody talks about like that Snow game, the Vinitary game,
the Tuck Rule game. But he had a shot like
the next year to win the Super Bowl. Yeah, and
somehow just got destroyed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah. I mean, what does that say? What does that
tell you? Well, they made it? Ye, it happens. There's
a lot of really good Bills teams in the nineties
that got smacked when they got to the Super Bowl
a couple times by the Cowboy. That's true.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's true. It's better than not making the Super Bowl
at all, which many teams, including my Bears. No, I've
much like the Raiders. I only experienced one Super Bowl
appearance by my team in my lifetime.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So Rex Gross from an under center, you figure they
could have found so many different ran it back.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
You want to talk about Brad Johnson and yourself to
the Super Bowl. Gee is