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Vince Promuto, a very good guard on some bad Washington teams has passed away at the age of 82.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... ies-at-82/

Frank McRae, member of the 1967 Chicago Bears, passed away at the age of 80. McRae was also a longtime actor with credits in "Last Action Hero", "A License to Kill", and "National Lampoon's Vacation", and many others. https://variety.com/2021/film/news/frank-mcrae-dead-...

Just giving some info on who Whitey was. Some may not know his history. For example, I didn't know he had a big hand along with Carl Peterson and Marty Schottenheimer in changing the Chiefs fortunes in the late 80's and early 90's. Being a High School and Division III football official myself, I'm g...

The Whitey he's referring to is Whitey Dovell. https://history.denverbroncos.com/1969/11/theyre-killing-me-whitey/ Dovell was an assistant coach on Ted Marchibroda's Colts staff during the 70's. In 1975 a 23 yr old young coach used to drive Dovell to practice every day. http://allthingsbillbelichick...

John Mendenhall, a good DT on some terrible Giants teams passed away at the age of 72.
https://247sports.com/Article/John-Mend ... 161687368/

I was a running back for two franchises in the NFL. While in high school I played with a future PFHOF linebacker and one of the NFL's greatest kick returners. In college I was involved in a play that led to the ending of a coache's career. In the pros I shared the backfield at times with a PFHOF run...

Another of the Lombardi Era Packers has passed away. The Golden Boy, Paul Hornung who was 84 years oldhttps://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30310498/gr ... ng-dies-84

Here is one from Defensive fronts in the 1950's, part 2., which I googled. And of Tom Landry's Defenses Circa 1958. New York under its defensive coach, Tom Landry, built its great defense utilizing the same "flex" concept Landry still uses with the Dallas Cowboys. Etc., etc. Thanks. I'll ...

1964 may have been when Landry first used it at Dallas, but he used a version of the flex defense during the late 50's when he was defensive coordinator with the New York Giants. Do you have a source on him using the Flex in New York? All I could find was him developing the 4-3 with the Giants and ...

According to this article, Landry came up with the flex in 1964 to combat the "run to daylight" concepts being used by Green Bay. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1987/august/is-there-any-wayto-explain-footballs-most-confusing-convoluted-intellectually-taxing-perhaps-no-lo...