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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCL/is_6_32/ai_96377043
Interesting tidbit in this article:
The offensive line was put together Oakland Raiders-style, with five guys who had been salvaged from the scrap heap. "Our whole offensive line came off waivers, except for myself and Norm Evans," says Little. "Norm came in the expansion draft from Houston, and I was traded from San Diego in what my coach in San Diego called a nothing-for-nothing deal. So a lot of us had that inside motivation to be great because we had been let go by other teams."
From left to right, Wayne Moore, Bob Kuechenberg, Jim Langer, Little, and Evans became brothers in arms. But it didn't happen in One practice, one game, or even one season.
"It took time for us to grow," says Little. "I'll never forget our first regular-season game under Don Shula [in 1970] up in Boston, against the Patriots. We gave up eight sacks that game. Monte Clark had just come in to coach the offensive line. He had coached in Cleveland the year before. After that game, Monte almost died. He was laying on a table, and they were taking his blood pressure. He was saying, `What in the world do I have here?'"
Let's hope that will be the case with this offensive line. The impatient ones would have condemned that line to hell back then after its first game together.
Interesting tidbit in this article:
The offensive line was put together Oakland Raiders-style, with five guys who had been salvaged from the scrap heap. "Our whole offensive line came off waivers, except for myself and Norm Evans," says Little. "Norm came in the expansion draft from Houston, and I was traded from San Diego in what my coach in San Diego called a nothing-for-nothing deal. So a lot of us had that inside motivation to be great because we had been let go by other teams."
From left to right, Wayne Moore, Bob Kuechenberg, Jim Langer, Little, and Evans became brothers in arms. But it didn't happen in One practice, one game, or even one season.
"It took time for us to grow," says Little. "I'll never forget our first regular-season game under Don Shula [in 1970] up in Boston, against the Patriots. We gave up eight sacks that game. Monte Clark had just come in to coach the offensive line. He had coached in Cleveland the year before. After that game, Monte almost died. He was laying on a table, and they were taking his blood pressure. He was saying, `What in the world do I have here?'"
Let's hope that will be the case with this offensive line. The impatient ones would have condemned that line to hell back then after its first game together.