Wade Phillips is football royalty, he’s the son of longtime NFL coach Bum Phillips, and he has forgotten more about football than all of us will know in our lives. He’s truly one of the sport’s smartest men. So you can understand if he gets a little peeved when people misinterpret his “dogs” for “blitzes,” especially when it leads to criticism about being too aggressive in the preseason.
The coordinator of the NFL’s best ‘D’ had some tweets about blitzing terminology that got brought up Thursday after camp.
“Funny how ‘experts’ don’t know a blitz (6rush-5cover eligible receivers) from a dog (5rush-6cover) – there are also pseudo blitz & dog schemes,” said Phillips, who took to Twitter to vent.