The Strategy of the Vertical Passing Game
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grantland.com
"Al Davis' "vertical game" was, in short, built on stretching the defense vertically while using all available receivers — deep, intermediate, and short — to take what the defense gave up anywhere on the field. Al's secret — and it is the same secret Gillman discovered and Walsh extended — is that the surest way to hit those deep passes is to consistently hit the underneath ones." Very good stuff.
