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re: Name a great player who played for some of your team's worst years
Posted on 7/6/17 at 2:02 pm to BranchDawg
Posted on 7/6/17 at 2:02 pm to BranchDawg
That is a tough one.
Okay. How about Red Hickey for Arkansas? No, seriously. His name was Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey.
He was drafted into the NFL in 1941 and I do not believe he played on an Arkansas team with a winning record.
A solid NFL player he moved at an early age into coaching. In '60 he invented the shotgun formation as we know it. Oddly enough while for decades it was thought of as a passing formation when he created it he relied on a mobile QB to run the system.
Which had its drawbacks as he demoted all everything QB Y.A. Tittle for a more mobile QB. Still his QBs put up amazing numbers for the time period they played and it could be considered the starting point of the spread style offenses.
Since he didn't have a back next to the QB it was actually quite a bit like the five wide formations we see today.
Okay. How about Red Hickey for Arkansas? No, seriously. His name was Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey.
He was drafted into the NFL in 1941 and I do not believe he played on an Arkansas team with a winning record.
A solid NFL player he moved at an early age into coaching. In '60 he invented the shotgun formation as we know it. Oddly enough while for decades it was thought of as a passing formation when he created it he relied on a mobile QB to run the system.
Which had its drawbacks as he demoted all everything QB Y.A. Tittle for a more mobile QB. Still his QBs put up amazing numbers for the time period they played and it could be considered the starting point of the spread style offenses.
Since he didn't have a back next to the QB it was actually quite a bit like the five wide formations we see today.
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