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anclry: Find better way to play defense’
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1980
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IDALLAS — It used to be that to have a good defensive
Titball team you simply needed some linemen who resem-
pd a concrete wall and an overall attitude of nastiness.
'Jow it takes an anti-aircraft gun and a bomb shelter.
)r, as Dallas coach Tom Landry put it Tuesday:
“Defense seems to be passe now. ”
Jit’s not that he’s necessarily complaining; he’s just com-
nting. And so are a lot of other coaches these days as they
:empt to devise a way to slow down the sophisticated passing
lacks that are in vogue.
["The league is a lot different than it has been a long time,”
dry said. “You see it every day. You saw it again last night
Houston’s 38-34 win over New England).
Teams are gaining much more confidence. Receivers are
ich more confident because they are not getting knocked
iund all the time. They are running freely in the secondary,
and when you have that kind of situation it becomes much
tougher.”
The culprit in all of this has been the rule change which
forbids the bumping of a receiver more than five yards past
the line of scrimmage. NFL officials hoped the change, along
with a looser interpretation of holding, would open up the
offense and bring about more points.
It has worked.
Now, does Landry think it has worked too well?
“There is going to be much more reluctance to go back the
other way (toward defensive-oriented football),” Landry said.
“We re going to have to find better way to play defense. We’ve
tried every way we know to slow it down, but it’s hard if the
quarterback has got time to throw the ball.
“I think the game should be an innovation thing. I don’t
believe in changing rules.
“I’m not going to say we should go back to where we were
because where we were, the defense was taking advantage of
the offense. I think when a receiver has to drag three
defenders downfield to catch the ball, which was happening
before, then something had to be done.
“But whether this is the way it should be only time will tell.
Maybe from a coaching standpoint we can change something
defensively that will help us to stop the onslaught because it’s
the same every week.”
Even though passing offense has mushroomed, Landry feels
it still takes a decent running game to make the passing attack
go the way it can.
“In the Houston game against New England Earl Campbell
only averaged one yard per try in the first half, ” Landry said.
“But the fact that he’s hitting in there made it easier for them to
complete the passes.
“You have to run successfully to put the fear in them and
make them gang up on you to keep you from trying to run the
football. ”
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OUSTON — Increased scoring in NFL games has Bum
lips down, and Tuesday the Houston Oilers head coach
he wanted to return to the good old days when receivers
r a price for coming across the middle. ”
tiers defensive players, Phillips added,, are being prohi-
d from playing football because NFL rule changes have
ed offensive linemen pass block and receivers avoid con-
in the secondary.
The whole rules committee has made every attempt to
:e it a high-scoring game,” he said.
,sked whether he liked the developments, which generated
icord 732 points in 14 £ames last weekend, Phillips shot
Ik, “No.
if d rather a guy have a chance to defend himself on defense,
pn t like to see a guy run down the field 15 yards and come
pss the middle, and you can’t touch him. That’s not the way
fas raised. You always made ‘em pay a price for coming
bss the middle, don’t you reckon?”
owl scouts look
New England Patriots receivers made Phillips yearn for
yesteryear Monday night by grabbing 374 yards in passes, and
despite the Oilers harrowing 38-34 victory Phillips was teed
off.
“It’s harder to get to the quarterback. It’s harder to pass rush
because of the liberalized rules on pass protection, and of
course it’s extremely hard to play defense when a guy gets five
yards downfield and you can’t touch him,” he said.
He added that a pass interference penalty called against
Oilers comerback Greg Stemrick Monday was an “incidental”
trip as both men went for the ball. The flag never would have
been thrown, he said, if there was no such rule as the one
which prohibits defenders from touching receivers five yards
past the line of scrimmage.
The Oilers defensive plan was to keep the Patriots’ wide
receivers from catching the bomb.
“Our prevent defense almost prevented us from winning,”
Phillips said.
The coach was back at work Tuesday morning after getting a
couple of hours sleep because the Oilers must travel and play
the Chicago Bears Sunday.
“Our defense didn’t play that bad,” he said. “Looking at
films, it was a whole lot more New England than it was our
defense.”
Oilers doctors said wide receiver Ken Burrough, who suf
fered a broken wrist Monday night, would be sidelined at least
six weeks, and Phillips said he would make a decision later in
the week on who would replace him on the roster.
The coach said tight end Dave Casper could have played in
the second half Monday night with a “slight hamstring pull,”
but he was held out to keep the injury from becoming worse.
“Losing Dave was a good example of why we needed three
tight ends,” he said. “Had we not had three tight ends, we
would have had to give up our offense.”
In the second half Monday night, veteran Rich Caster re
placed Casper in the team’s two-tight-end alignment.
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or bowl picture and representa-
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be fact that both of those influen-
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