{"id":675,"date":"2022-02-08T04:19:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauleide.com\/wordpress\/?p=675"},"modified":"2022-02-09T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:34:27","slug":"nfl-legend-sam-wyche-talks-joe-montana-bill-walsh-jerry-glanville-the-super-bowl-and-getting-fired-by-the-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/nfl-legend-sam-wyche-talks-joe-montana-bill-walsh-jerry-glanville-the-super-bowl-and-getting-fired-by-the-bengals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Wyche On Grooming Joe Montana, Meeting Bill Walsh, THRASHING Jerry Glanville, How Mike Brown Fired Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3757 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sam-wyche.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"549\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sam-wyche.png 878w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sam-wyche-600x375.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3757 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sam-wyche.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sam-wyche.png 878w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sam-wyche-600x375.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em>(Originally published 4\/29\/13)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Few people in the history of the universe can lay claim to the amount of NFL experience and historical significance of Sam Wyche.<\/h2>\n<p>Whether as a quarterback playing for the Bengals and Redskins under legends Paul Brown and George Allen, or being the first assistant coach iconic NFL mind Bill Walsh ever hired, or being Joe Montana\u2019s QB Coach for the first four years of his NFL career, Sam Wyche has had a hand in almost every significant occurrence in league history.<\/p>\n<p>Like the \u201cSix Degrees of Kevin Bacon\u201d- except the NFL version.<\/p>\n<h2>So, pay your respects and if you don\u2019t know who Sam Wyche is, read on and prepare to know more about the game you love, through the eyes of a man who has lived things you can only dream of.<\/h2>\n<p>Listen or read below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/944603989&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\">Balls in the Air: I-80 Sports Blog Podcast \u00b7 THE Sam Wyche Interview<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>In 1989 you handed the Oilers and then coach Jerry Glanville a 61-7 beat down where you continued to pass until the final minutes of a game even after the score was 30-0 at half time. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>There are rumors as to why you kept your foot on the gas for so long, including that Glanville had run up the score in the previous meeting. What precipitated the beat down?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody ever ran up the score especially not in that game; they just didn\u2019t <em>stop us<\/em>. The Central Division at the time was one of the most competitive divisions. It went for the entire eight years I was there and even with Forrest Gregg before me, that all the teams were up one year, then mediocre the next year, where no one team really dominated- before the Steelers got hot.<\/p>\n<p>The eight years I was there we were 10-6 versus Noll and the Steelers. Anyway, we played the Oilers at home and beat them 40-something to 20 something. Then we go to Houston for the rematch and they win 40-something to 20-something, it was just like most of the time the home team won and won handily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe year before the 61-7 game Jerry Glanville made a comment in the local paper saying that had the Oilers caught a TD pass they dropped, that we would\u2019ve quit. Well, you don\u2019t tell a team they are quitters.<\/p>\n<p>So before the game, one of my players came up to me, I can\u2019t remember who it was now, in the moments before we go out onto the field, in the locker room in an emotional moment, and said, \u2018Sam, no matter what happens today, no matter what happens, <strong><em>don\u2019t let up<\/em><\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, we were up 30-0 at halftime. Everything we did that day went right, and they couldn\u2019t get anything going. Our starters scored on the first drive of the second half, and I took out all the starters. And we just scored another 20 something points.<\/p>\n<p>The last part of the game we kicked a field goal to get to 61 to break the record for most points in Bengal history. And I thought, \u201cHey we\u2019d come this far, why not set the record?\u201d We really didn\u2019t try to run the score up, it was just one of those days everything went right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>When the 49ers drafted Joe Montana in the third round, how much faith did the coaching staff have in him? Did you know he\u2019d be good immediately, or not until that second season when the team took off?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it wasn\u2019t confirmed until the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> season but we knew we had someone that was different- he had the intangibles. Joe wasn\u2019t a big guy, he didn\u2019t have the big body, he was kind of thin, athletic type, more of a greyhound than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>We got into practice and mini camps and it was apparent right away. Number one he had a very catchable pass-the ball traveled with the nose up, and it just arrived at the receiver.<\/p>\n<p>He rarely had balls dropped because it came in so soft, not hard like most guys. The flight of the ball, with the nose up, gave it that cushion when it arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, Joe was one of the most patient QB\u2019s ever because you went thru a progression in the offense we were running and developing then, which came to be known as the \u201cWest Coast Offense\u201d which it wasn\u2019t yet, in those days.<\/p>\n<p>You went to your blitz receiver on the first step away from center, then you went to the number one WR if you didn\u2019t get a blitz, then number two, then number three and your guarantee, your \u201csave a sack WR\u201d and just memorized \u201cBlitz, 1, 2 ,3 guarantee. Blitz, 1 ,2,3, guarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You didn\u2019t have to read coverage, or throw away from the safety; based on the design of the play <em>someone<\/em> should always be open. And if no one was open, you go thru the progression again to save the sack. But in your mind you knew, \u2018I\u2019m letting that ball go, I\u2019m not going to get sacked and lose yardage.\u2019 And that was the West Coast Offense.<\/p>\n<p>Joe handled all that so fast. And I give Steve DeBerg a lot of credit for that because he worked with him a lot and was very unselfish, but Joe did a lot of little things that brought him along so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You are the man who\u00a0created the\u00a0\u201cNo Huddle Offense\u201d; What led to its development?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, my first year I tried it a little at Indiana University. I was there just one year and Paul Brown hired me in Cincinnati. So, we were in Wilmington, Ohio at training camp. And I\u2019d blow the whistle for \u201cNickel Period\u201d and we\u2019d run plays based on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 8, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 10, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 6.<\/p>\n<p>When the defense would bring in the extra defender and take out the nose tackle or middle linebacker, it just hit me all the sudden- why in the world- everyone in the stadium knows were going to the ball on third and 8- why would we go back there and caucus for 20 seconds and let them bring in their better pass rusher and defensive back and take out a couple of guys that aren\u2019t very good at pass defense?<\/p>\n<p>So I said the next day to my offensive coaches that we were going to do the (No Huddle) and see how my defensive coordinator, who was Dick Lebeau in those years, responded. We\u2019re going to move the ball and have a little scrimmage, but ion 3<sup>rd<\/sup> down I\u2019m not going to huddle up. So I told the team that we were just going to run the same play and not huddle up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as you can imagine all the defensive coaches started screaming and hollering \u201cWe don\u2019t have defensive guys on the field!\u201d And my response was, it\u2019s the offense that dictates the tempo of the game, not you the defense, the umpire or anyone else. We can go fast, slow, doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom that we started to learn other tricks. Like when you go up and you\u2019re in a legal formation and your QB\u2019s hands are under center, the defensive linemen are in a three point stance- they\u2019re flexed, white knuckled, burning up energy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we know the snap count so were not burning up energy, we\u2019re on \u201cParade Rest\u201d but are legal and we could snap the ball whenever. We eat up eight or nine seconds on every play of their energy and over time, and especially by the fourth quarter, that starts to pay off. Or if you get into a long drive, say after seven plays you can see the difference- those guys are patting their helmets wanting out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other part of it was they couldn\u2019t substitute. And if they did we ran to the line and yelled \u201cSet Alert\u201d. That meant ball is snapped on \u201cset\u201d, and the \u201calert\u201d was a play if you were on our sideline, if you were the WR on our sideline, you ran a \u201cGo\u201d pattern. And we\u2019d take a shot.<\/p>\n<p>If you were on their sideline you ran a \u201cQuick Out\u201d right into where their guys were trying to leave the field so it\u2019s almost built in pass interference. We scored 9 TDs on that play in one year. And about three of them nobody even covered the \u201cGo\u201d pattern. So, that\u2019s the birth of the \u201cNo Huddle\u201d and how it evolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What led to you being fired from the Bengals? There are a lot of rumors as to how it went down but what actually happened?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SW<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cIt was the day after the last game of the season, which was on Christmas Eve. Paul Brown was not there, but his son Mike was. I pleaded with Mike before the meeting, \u201cI\u2019m exhausted, I haven\u2019t done any shopping for my family-let\u2019s take a break and we can meet next week.\u201d He said, \u201cNo we\u2019re meeting now like we always do after the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And we both went into that meeting tired. Mike said to me and several other people years later that it was a mistake and that he shouldn\u2019t have done it, to force that meeting that quick; things might have been different if everyone was fresh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, we go into the meeting room and it\u2019s Pete Brown, Paul\u2019s brother, who was in charge of scouting and Katie Brown, Mike\u2019s daughter who is a law school graduate and current GM, but wasn\u2019t at that time, and Mike Brown and me sitting around the table. It was a bad year, we had a bad record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in that room and during the course of the meeting, Mike turns to Pete and says, \u201cPete tell Sam how we want him to conduct press conferences after the game.\u201d Well, my personality was to be me. So Pete pulled out these 3\u00d75 cards and the first one said \u201cWe played good today and look forward to next week at Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They wanted me to tone it down and not talk so much, but I\u2019d explain to a reporter anything they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>They read about three of these cards and I said. \u201cI hear you, I know what you\u2019re after, you\u2019ve been with me for 8 years and know I don\u2019t talk like that and it\u2019s gonna come across so phony. I\u2019ll do my best but I can\u2019t promise I can do that. And he said, \u201cYou just resigned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I said, \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He put his fingers to his cheat and arched his fingers into his palm into his sternum and said again, \u201cYou just resigned.\u201d I thought he was kidding at first because Mike and I socially, we\u2019re friends, still am, I like him. We had done a lot of things off the field together.<\/p>\n<p>So I jokingly, literally, raised my hand like \u201cLittle Johnny\u201d in the back of the class and said, \u201cExcuse me, isn\u2019t that <em>my<\/em> line? Don\u2019t I get to say it?\u201d Thinking he was going to laugh or whatever, he said \u201cYou just resigned\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked at Katie (Brown) who was taking notes and said \u201cKatie, make sure you write down that I do <em>NOT<\/em> resign and that I am not quitting. I caught on pretty quick- I knew I had two years remaining on the contract I was in and my quitting would be a financial plus for you, but I\u2019m not quitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I stood up, reached out and shook Mike\u2019s hand, then I\u2019m reaching across the table kind of extending over to shake Katie\u2019s hand and I pushed back on my chair and the chair kind of catches back in the carpet like it\u2019s going to fall backward so I reach back in an awkward, very awkward uncoordinated move trying to catch the chair and almost lose my balance and I have to grab the table and hold on while I pulled up the chair to get it out of the carpet so I could scoot it back.<\/p>\n<p>Then I turned to the door and I go to the door and looked back and don\u2019t remember if I said \u201cgood bye\u201d or nodded or something, but I looked back and when I did I missed the doorknob.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m usually pretty good at doorknobs I rarely miss them on the first try- but I missed the knob 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