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That's what turned out to be the most effective thing against Dan after defensive coaches finally settled in as the best way to defend him. Knowing that you weren't going to get him and he was going to get the ball off, I would have gone to a three-man rush and used all different types of coverage schemes with eight defenders with either a man underneath-type [of scheme] with a zone behind it or mixing it up.

Don Shula

Don Shula

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