Windy City Gridiron · Jun 26, 2017
30-Day challenge: Changing one moment in Bears history
There’s a simple concept that too many coaches in professional football don’t understand. Instead of tailoring an offensive or defensive scheme to put a talented player to good use as best as possible, some coaches will instead elect to fit a square peg into a round hole and push said talent into unnecessary as well as complicated constraints so that they never reach their potential.
In the case of the “mad genius” Mike Martz - the famed architect of the St. Louis Rams’ late 1990’s “Greatest Show On Turf” offense - and former now much maligned Chicago Bears offensive coordinator, it was about throwing away the round hole altogether and smashing it into unrecognizable pieces.
