Quote:  The thing that jumps out about Dennis Green for me is he was unconventional.  He didn't do things by the book.   Green hit a Home Run with Randy Moss when the latter was focused at the task at hand.  A year later,  Green totally struck out with DE Dimitrius Underwood,  who would fit at least to some extent the Draft Bust thread you recently started.    Using a related baseball analogy,  Green didn't stress singles and sacrifice bunts.   He wanted to hit the ball out of the park.   Big plays by differential playmakers.    This strategy has plenty of rewards but its high risk.

I seem to recall his teams were always talented on offense.  IIRC, Jake Reed, Todd Steussie, Korey Stringer, Matt Birk and Robert Smith were all drafted by him, in addition to Moss and Culpepper.  He could never find that absolute stud of a QB though.  He wasn't as bad as some of the other good coaches like Schottenheimer or Mora that got stuck with a few pedestrian QBs over the years (Krieg, Hebert).   

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