RIP Sam Wyche, and the first Locked On Bengals mailbag of the 2020 Offseason
Locked On Bengals - Daily Podcast On The Cincinnati Bengals
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🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bengals community lost a legend today. Rest in peace, Sam Weish. This is your lockdown Bengals |
| 0:07.0 | lead story. I'm Jake Liscoe, along with Joe Goodberry. The Bengals legendary head coach of the late 80s |
| 0:13.5 | who led the team to the Super Bowl after the 1988 season died today of complications due to a recurring melanoma. Not too long ago, Weish addressed |
| 0:25.6 | Bengals fans, players, coaches, and said, wear your sunscreen. And this is obviously why |
| 0:31.2 | Bengals Nation mourns the loss of an innovator, a great human being by all accounts, a philanthropist, and a huge |
| 0:40.6 | influence in the history of the Cincinnati Bengals. Sam Weish won 64 games in his tenure in Cincinnati, |
| 0:48.8 | where he coached from 1984 to 1991. He was known for his innovation in terms of the no-huddle offense, including an infamous moment |
| 1:00.7 | when the NFL tried to change the rules on him two hours before a playoff game against |
| 1:05.6 | the Buffalo Bills. Sam Wisch said, the heck with your rules will beat him anyway. |
| 1:12.4 | Bengal fans of our generation may have started watching this team while Sam Weish was the head coach and are influenced by that generation of Bengals football. |
| 1:21.8 | For me personally, that rivalry with the bills in the playoffs and the bills coming back to copy that no-huddle offense |
| 1:28.2 | and call it the K-gun is the reason why I'm a Bengals fan personally. |
| 1:32.3 | And Joe, as you may know, currently lives in the Buffalo area, so that rivalry probably has |
| 1:37.6 | a little bit of extra meaning for you, Joe. |
| 1:41.5 | So not only did Weish bring in the no-huddle offense that still survives today in the NFL, |
| 1:46.8 | but hiring Dick Leboe as his defensive coordinator and really starting the first zone blitz |
| 1:52.1 | scheme that still carries out through everyone and is infiltrated every team in the NFL, |
| 1:56.7 | even 30 years later. |
| 1:58.2 | Bill Belichick acknowledged Dick Lebo's ingenuity in saying that he's never |
| 2:02.6 | seen anything quite like the endurance of the Zone Blitz scheme originally pioneered by Lebo |
| 2:09.2 | under Weish's head coaching tenure. And he said that that play call, that Zone Blitz has hardly changed |
| 2:16.0 | in over 30 years at this point. And it's starting to |
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