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rsdsharp

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6. I'll have to disagree with Wikipedia, about Bill George creating the middle linebacker position.

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Mon Oct 9, 2023, 05:20 PM

Oct 2023

Tom Landry developed the 4-3 defense as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants. Sam Huff was the Giants middle linebacker, and Landry built the defense around him. There is no 4-3 without the middle linebacker.

Bill George was a Hall-of-Famer, and deservedly so, but Huff was the first middle linebacker, in the first 4-3 defense, and his Giants destroyed the Bears in the 1956 championship game. Huff was also the subject of the 1960 documentary The Violent World of Sam Huff.

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