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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 901130" data-attributes="member: 12283">LaFleur and McVay do run two versions of the same essential offense. McVay has some different personnel preferences, but the core of the scheme is the same. LaFleur, McVay, Shanahan, Stefanski, Kubiak, etc. are all branches off of the same offensive tree. Fangio and Phillips both use a 3-4 as their base defense (though they're hardly ever in base). So what you're saying about Staley "keeping" Wade Phillips' 3-4 makes no sense. Of course Staley made him own adjustments to the defense. Just as any coach does. No one creates an exact facsimile of another system. But the basic scheme was Fangio's. This is well-documented. So it is far, far more reasonable to say that we hired a guy to install Fangio's system (which has actually been reported), rather than saying Barry is here "to run same D as Pettine." Barry and Staley and Fangio might end up being different branches, but Barry and Pettine are different trees.</blockquote>

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