The Landry Shift
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- If you ever wondered what the Landry Shift was, or you just miss seeing the Dallas Cowboys do the shift - here is a collection of them.
I tried hard to include players that wound up coaching in later years. In one of the plays coach Dan Reeves of Denver Broncos got some good yards and coach Mike Ditka of the Bears was the one that Staubach really drilled the ball to. I made sure I had Bullet Bob Hayes and Tony Dorsett and I wanted to include Morton, Staubach, and Danny White. Of course I included a couple key players like Pearson and DuPree. Each of the shifts is a little bit different. My favorite is @2:00 where the end steps closer to the line that almost drew an off sides.
Other teams did indeed do various versions of the line shift, most especially Kansas City but Tom Landry and the Cowboys became most famous for it and fans of nostalgia love it. A bit of trivia for those who don’t know this - when the NFL created the expansion team of the Cowboys there was already a professional team in Dallas called the Dallas Texans. They played for three years right alongside the Cowboys taking turns in the Cotton Bowl. They later moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs. So that means both teams were doing the shift in the Cotton Bowl. Maybe the cotton bowl is where it was born!
In those days hardly anyone left the Cowboys. Landry was an engineer and his shift was extremely complicated. To pull it off required years of training with the same guys. With the advent of salary caps and free agency it got too difficult to maintain. It was indeed effective, for the time in which it appeared. Here is a link to an article in the Dallas Morning News of an interview with Bill Bellichick talking about his experience with the shift:
www.dallasnews.com/sports/cow...
For Trivia turn on Closed Captions!
Need to miss them guys
Me Too! Miss them guys
You can’t deny....def. one of the G.O.A.T.’s....RIP Tom Landry, Thank you. Watching Tony Dorsett run like the wind.....#33
Man I miss Pat Summerall, Keith Jackson and John Madden.
I miss Red Cassion saying _First Dooooowwwnn_
Yeah...Joe Buck is no Keith Jackson. Jackson was articulate, respectful, and he loved football in his soul. Good point, Life.
There was something pleasing to the eye and beautiful in the way Dallas played in "the day'. I do miss those days when running the ball was an art form unto itself. Landry and Dorsett, what a combination.
Hey thanks for your comment. It just made them look like a well-oiled fighting machine. I loved it. And they are still doing it today, albeit only on the last play. Yet it is a lasting tribute to Landry that they do it. Players today weren’t even born before Landry retired yet they universally all agreed it was a good idea!
One of my favorite memories of back in the day is watching the Cowboys on Sunday with my dad. Football was still a game then and people played because they loved it instead of playing for the multi-million dollar contracts. I'm talking 50 years ago, I really miss those days.
You said it! I was 3 years old when the franchise was born. All through the ‘60s I sat with my dad on Sundays and watched the Cowboys. He was so funny, he’d get frustrated when they lost and would say _The Cowgirls lost their game_ When the new AT&T stadium opened in the Jerry Jones era I took my sons to a game, it’s about a 4 hour drive from Austin. We had the best time and they won that game. Most amazing stadium I have ever seen. Even the nosebleed seats were great with that massive Jumbo-Tron that’s so big it has an elevator inside. Thanks for taking time to share your memories.
Well said.
Same here Alan....alot of us have those same memories
Amen, brother
That was back before the nfl fixed the games. The glory days when the outcome was decided on the field.
The shift is one of the things I miss most about the Dallas Cowboys. It was poetry in motion.
I agree. It really sent a signal that they were _a machine!_ It showed that they were disciplined and looked cool. Thanks for your comment.
I love seeing this after a cowboys win
Always amazed that a defensive coach became such an innovator on offense. Great Coach, Great Man.
I think his time with Vince Lombardi was well spent.
@@robertansley6331 Agreed. But, as great as Lombardi was and he was great, he wasn't the innovator that Landry was in so many ways.
@@judgeparker4236 I just learned coach Landry said his favorite season was when he was a high school senior. Landry played on both sides of the ball, as quarterback and as a defensive back. His team won every game and completely shut out every team but one, and they only scored one touchdown! But I can see that, high school was my favorite season too, I didn’t need a job, no life worries other than getting up the. courage to ask a girl out!
I grew up watching the cowbiys in the 70s and 80s and always thought the Landry Shift was the coolest thing ever. I never realised its purpose. He truely was an innovator.
I have been working on a new video for awhile tracing the offensive line shift styles - they go way back to the beginning of football. The earliest teams would break from the huddle, march up to the line, and without pausing drop into a two point stance then immediately shift into the 3-point or sometimes a 4-point stance. Landry did it with style. Different backfield motion styles were crazy too. Thanks for your comment.
Showed again tonight on that eagle beat down!!
The Cowboys have been doing it for a while now not only in that eagles game. Every year they do it
I miss the shift !! Landry was a true legend and good man.
I know! It was a beautiful time to be a Cowboy fan. I can’t believe it’s been 27 years since their last Super Bowl.
Yes, I don’t know how long Jerry will continue to make excuses. The Landry years were contenders year in and year out! I’m not sure what we could do to bring back the greatness of Americas team.
I started watching the
Dallas Cowboys in '64.
Thank you Coach Landry for many great memories.
R. I. P.
TOM LANDRY 🏈🇨🇱
Mike Ditka catching a pass from Roger the Dodger...I almost want to cry. Football was football then.
I wish I would have put up a banner recognizing these great players, like Coach Ditka and Coach Reeves of the Broncos. These guys knew football!
@@robertansley6331 My dad took me to my first Cowboys' game (in the Cotton Bowl) in 1964. I got to see Dandy Don Meredith throw a pass to Bullet Bob Hayes-Hayes was about half a step away from the opposing player covering him, but he caught the ball over his shoulder, without even looking-and at that second, he turned on the speed and two steps later, the defensive player behind him never had a chance to tackle him-It was like an 80 yard touchdown catch, and I don't think Bob even broke a sweat. That was 57 years ago, but I remember it like yesterday. PS Decades later, my dad built Tom Landry's trophy case in his home, and Coach Landry wrote him a thank you note on his personal stationary, saying he appreciated my father's craftsmanship-that letter is in a frame in my living room. BTW, Landry's stationary had a picture of his hat at the top! Thank you, Robert for your response.
@@debmoadd must have been 1965 as that was Hayes rookie year. In 1964 Hayes was still a college athlete winning two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics.
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em I appreciate your respectful correction! That is a rare quality to have on the Internet!
As a cowboys fan I'm glad someone actually talked about this. It was a bit of brilliance.
Thanks! I found an interesting article by Bill Bellichick talking about how complicated it was and why it can't be done today - salary caps and free agency destroyed the time teams needed to play as one to get it all down. See my link in the description.
The Hitch.
Don't forget what Hank Hill said about "The Flex Defense" 😉
@@robertansley6331 I’m calling horse manure on bb.
Correct me if I am wrong, but *one* team, under *one* coach, used this.
There’s a reason for this, and it isn’t because the players don’t spend enough time with each other.
@@sludge4125 See my other video. Kansas City Chiefs used it a lot during the same time frame. It's important to remember the Shift was just a small piece of the overall strategy that depended on the Doomsday Defense to do their part as well. Players have to work together with individual assignments coalescing in an effective strategy. Not every player on a defense could correctly read a multiple offensive shift and know what that meant for their particular assignment. Of course Pittsburgh's Steel Curtain could, but not every team. Many times players shifted from a two-point stance to a three-point stance in a simple show of unity with no Backs shifting or any other player movement. And occasionally they got set straight away in a three point stance with no shift. I would argue the decision when to use the Shotgun formation, or to put a man in motion was equally important.
I loved all of those games, growing up in Texas as a Cowboy fan!
Loved Bullet Bob Hayes
#22
LOVE the shift. Really cool to see nowadays in the victory formation.
I’ve often had appreciation for the Landry Shift and the creative mind of Tom Landry. I believe he had a genius level football mind. When your team has 20 winning NFL seasons in a row, you know you’re doing something special.
No one will ever be like Tom Landry, class, smart, innovative and unique.
3:38 When Pat Summerall gets excited, you know it was an amazing play. And indeed it was
They should bring this shift back into play...such a beautiful thing to watch!!!
It wouldn’t be the same.
@@christopherneyfeldt3869 No, I fon’t think so either. There is a time & season for everything. The Chiefs used it a couple years ago for one trick play.
TOM LAUNDRY AS VINCE LOMBARDI ARE NFL INNOVATORS AND ICONIC FIGURES .....we still witness their NFL influence on the game....RIP MY COACH TOM well dressed LAUNDRY
Johnny, I'm glad you didn't check your typing. You opened with "Tom LAUNDRY as Vince Lombardi" and closed with "RIP MY COACH TOM well-dressed LAUNDRY."
Your comment will be remembered forever.
The shift is why I became a Cowboys fan. I thought it was the coolest thing to see them go up then come back down. The backs always moving behind him. It was hard for teams to stop what was coming with all the shifts. Man those were the good old days!!
It was extremely technical. I found an article with Bill Bellidhick talking about the shift. The link is in the description.
Wow! Two backs protecting the quarterback! Haven't seen that in a loong time.
To me, the Landry Shift is beautiful because it shows teamwork in its truest form. They are not individuals, they are working together - and that is truly terrifying for a defense.
Completely agree! In two seconds it telegraphs a warning that this is a serious team in total synch.
Landry was a football genius, solid DB and a brave B17 pilot who flew many combat missions in WWII.
When I was on JV in high school, I was a lineman and we did the Landry Shift, most defenses were so confused just by that, it was funny to look up for a sec and see the bewilderment in their eyes, Landry really hit on something when he implemented this
That's funny...Just thought it looked cool..And I'm a Cowboy hater...Former Redskins fan.
Not just a football genius, he was a man's man. He had integrity. He never cheated like some of those coaches up north. He was fired by a guy that isn't man enough to stand in his shadow.
Another little girl yelling “they cheated, they cheated!” 😂 😂 😂
@@DBos77 when I throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one the yelps is the one I hit.
@@spotteddawgranch9421 Ha!
@@spotteddawgranch9421a cowboys fan WOULD throw rocks at dogs.
Not only was the Landry Shift innovative but every team in the NFL uses the Shotgun Formation because of Tom Landry. I miss the Landry Shift
It’s one of those things that’s so obvious now I wonder why it wasn’t being done all the time! Like his man in motion across the backfield to keep his receivers from getting jammed up at the line of scrimmage.
I agree but wouldn't the Landry Shift look weird if used by any other NFL team except the Cowboys for those of us who saw Landry when he coached the team
@@MarcG7424 See my other video, the Kansas City Chiefs shifting. They probably copied Landry when they took turns with the Boys playing in the Cotton Bowl as the Dallas Texans for 3 years. I think it gave the Cowboys the look of a polished, well-oiled machine, a military might lockstep with each other on the battlefield.
Ok I will I became a football fan in 75 Cowboys vs Giants was my first game saw the shift and have been a win or lose Cowboys fan ever since thought it was the coolest thing ever the shift may have been done before but Dallas made it look sexy btw I knew they were the Dallas Texans when they were a expansion team which is probably why I don't like Houston lol
@@MarcG7424 - The Bears used it for a bit after Ditka became head coach (he was a Dallas assistant prior). It didn't last that long.
Landry Shift was poetry in motion. DC4L
Growing up and watching THE SHIFT, I thought it was the COOLEST thing in 🏈
I know what you mean. A time that will never come again. Thanks for you comment.
Best coach the Cowboys ever had. May Coach Landry RIP. OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER DUPLICATED.
I agree completely. I miss those days when the announcers would detail all the coaches their opponents had, then say of Landry: _”He’s the only coach the Cowboys have ever had.”_
I quit being a Cowboys fan when they fired Landry and brought in Johnson, who was to me the opposite of everything Landry stood for.
@@Mehnwai397 My sister-in-law was working at the golf course in Austin where Landry was playing when Jones showed up and delivered the bad news. She said it was pretty somber. I hung on with Aikman & crew but quit watching when loudmouth Switzer took over. Aikman hated his “no coaching” style of coaching.
I also agree with David Vega you definitely hit the nail on the head.
@@robertansley6331 Still the "only coach" they ever had. Johnson was good but not Coach Landry.
Loved watching the Cowboys game with Maddon and Summerall
Couldn’t help but smile the whole time I was watching this.
Love the cowboys so much 😍
It’s way past time for them to dominate the NFL. I’m sure I’m not the only one who believes it’s time to sell the team. The Triplets need to pool their resources and rescue the Cowboys!
Laundry was an innovator and contributed to what the nfl is today
Boy did I love listening to this. Summerall, Gowdy, etc, legends
Thanks for commenting. I miss those days!
Absolutely amazing footage & analysis.Landry a defensive minded coach,that gave us the Shift, Shotgun formation &25 yrs of the coolest demeanor.Of course he always dressed for success.
Rip Coach&Gil Brandt who was also an architect in the NFL
He invented the 4-3 defense that everyone uses.
I remember being 16yo working on my 1st job and with my 1st check buying & sporting a fedora in homage to Coach Landry. Now 52yo, I still sport fedoras.
Interesting video. Thanks for putting it together. I would also mention that Landry is the guy who brought the shotgun back into prominence. And as a former defensive coordinator, he knew what was hard on defenses and used that in his offense.
Having been a def coord for a long time, I can vouch for the fact that all the shifting and motions are indeed tough to prepare for.
When the Cowboys were doing this, I thought it was the coolest thing a football team did. And still do.
Back then I would have said _”That’s bitchen!”_
First NFL game I ever watched on TV was the Cowboys vs the Giants as soon as I saw the shift I knew the shift I knew this is my team and they have been since 74
Two point stance then a three point stance, what a thing of beauty......those Landry teams were fun to watch.
Two point to three point, Roger’s voice barking out the count, referee Red Cashion’s _First Dooooooown_ I miss those days.
No they weren't. -Said the Redskin fan. (although I did enjoy seeing them stuff Dorsett behind line of scrimmage on 4th and 1 in '83 to seal NFC Championship) One of many plays. The Skins Cowboys rivalry died yrs ago, though....used to be the BEST in the league.
@@brbob4934 Yeah, I’m sad when traditions die. I went to school in El Paso, Austin High (Panthers) where the home-coming game was always played against our rivals at El Paso High Tigers. For years and years the gold Panther Claw trophy was displayed in the winning school’s trophy case for a year. Then after 50 years they killed the rivalry.
@@robertansley6331 Dandy Don M: "ALl good things must end." :) FWIW, Clint Longley totally spoiled my turkey dinner that yr. I can still see the play in my head.
@@brbob4934 oh yeah!! I forgot about that quarterback from nowhere. It was lively in our home on Sundays because my brother was a die-hard Dolphins fan. The year they went undefeated there was no living with him!
Coach Landry was smooth b4 smooth was cool.
I was wondering what was going on with the last two highlights since it obviously wasn't the Landry Cowboys. Turns out it was the 2014 Cowboys tribute to Landry, they would do the shift in their two-minute drills in practice, and then started doing it in games in victory formation. Very cool.
Yeah, I threw those tributes in. I read that when the idea was suggested everybody enthusiastically said “Yes!”
Tom Landry was head coach, offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. The man had a brain.
He was an Engineer out of college & adjusted the team like he was building. Emphasize the strengths & replace a weakness with stronger parts.
Man I miss those days, the players, coaches and TV announcers.
I do too. It’s also because my dad and I would sit on the couch together and watch _our Boys_ in action. I miss those days.
Giddy up Cowboys,, miss the doomsday defense.
I loved this video. There's so much more footage of the landry shift now as the Cowboys have been dominant this season.
What's fascinating about these older clips is just how much motion Landry used. I was watching a full game from the 80s the other day and almost every single play had motion by the backs or the receivers. People like to say the game passed him by but the truth is I think in those twilight years he just didn't have players that could execute an offense that complex. Lord knows Steve Pelluer and Gary Hogeboom couldn't!
I couldn't agree more. A sports news writer said that hardly anybody left the cowboys back then, giving them time to learn the complicated system. Salary caps and free agency were what started their demise. Now Landry did what Jimmy Johnson did to re-engineer the team by filling it with all young rookies (with a few veterans). He had 12 rookies in one season, my favorite being Percy Howard. He only caught one pass in his Cowboy career from the legendary Roger Staubach in Super Bowl X. If you're only going to catch one pass, then make it a _One Hit Wonder!_
It worked with Danny white.
@@geoffreydy9739 yes and I think Danny White was a far far better QB than people realized. He held most of the Cowboy all time passing records and season records until Tony Romo came along. And when you think about the fact that he followed Roger Staubach and was eventually succeeded by Troy Aikman that says an awful lot about how good he was IMO.
If Tom Landry stayed to coach the triplets, they would have mastered it.
@@geoffreydy9739 I agree with that. They absolutely could have run that offense.
I was at Coach Landry's last game in '88. Dad and I were in the end zone upper deck at Texas Stadium above the Cowboys locker room tunnel. I'll never forget that image of him walking off the field for the final time.
Thanks for sharing that poignant memory!
Landry was a football genius . He really got screwed by the sale of the team. My high school used a similar shifting offense in 1974
Landry did not get screwed. He had three consecutive losing seasons, the last of which the team finished dead last and made the playoffs just once in his last five years. Other great coaches like Paul Brown and Hank Stram also got fired when their teams fell from prominence.
@@epm5433 My relative was on the golf course outside Austin when Jerry unexpectedly showed up and walked out to the green to fire him. She called us and we found out before the media did. That's how I think he was disrespected and screwed. He was indeed past his prime and there needed to be a change but man was it cold.
@@robertansley6331 Landry was told in advance that if Jones bought the team he'd be bringing in his own coach. I'm as big a fan of Landry as anyone and believe that he was a credit to the game in so many ways. I'm also glad that Landry was spared the indignity of having to work for Jones.
@@epm5433 You don't treat a guy like him that way. I have heard the story first hand. He was screwed. Oh and I do not live in Dallas I am from Baltimore. Paul Brown got screwed when Art "the mover" Modell bought the team the Browns have sucked since even the new ones. Collier won with Pauls guys in 64. Not sure about Stram but it took 50 years to win it all again in KC after his departure.
@@epm5433 ok. My sister in law said he looked very surprised and left in the middle of his golf game. She was there, not me, The Dallas Morning News reported that on the very day Jerry bought the team he flew straight to Austin to fire Landry. They also reported Landry didn't seem to have plans to go anywhere before the decision. Before getting fired, he said he wanted to extend his career into the 1990s and even hired new coaches to help rebuild the team. So I disagree, he was surprised when Jerry showed up.
It just looks bad ass !!
It certainly does!!
I loved it!
To me it showed a team marching in military precision, performing as one finely tuned machine! It had to have a psychological impact.
That hitch or shift used to annoy me. I miss it now. I was a trademark of those teams
When I was a teen & a young man, Tom Landry was SOOOOO cool!
Landry Shift
Flex Defense
Shotgun
He was innovative!
Love it. Love watching the beautiful precision of a Landry offense. Smarts. Synchronicity, well schooled and crisp
Thanks for your thoughts. They looked like a well-oiled machine! I miss those days.
I don't care what the '"experts'" say Tom Landry was the best coach in NFL history.
hands down
The only way the Cowboys will ever get too the super bowl is for the State of Texas to buy Jones out and hire someone that knows how to run an NFL team. While the hall fires a coach who wins 2 super bowls in 3 years? This is after firing the best coach ever.
He wasn't just the best coach ever, he was a Christian decent man. No profanity!
Landry and chuck knoll the best ever
I am watching this with tears in my eyes!
Thanks Thomas! I had almost forgotten what an incredible sight it was to watch the shift until I researched it for this video. They didn’t do it every play, I’ve always wondered what factors decided the Shift should happen. I have not yet found that answer.
Me too 😢
@@robertansley6331 I think early on they did this every play. Later on it was a little less noticeable but was still on almost every play.
@@davidroman1654 So did Kansas City Chiefs when they left Dallas. Since the two teams shared the Cotton Bowl for 3 years I’m not surprised they picked it up.
I've often wondered why the O-line did that? It took me 50 years to be enlightened, hmm.
Yup…..Me too
same
I love how the Cowboys still do this when they are in victory formation running out the clock. Such a cool tradition and a nod back to an awesome coach. I wish more teams did stuff like this. The NFL has such a great legacy.
Who is here after the Monday game when Peyton Manning mentioned this?
I didn't see that. What did he say?
God, it's great seeing these guys again! I haven't seen them in decades. Such great memories! Back when football was football with players I could actually be proud of!
Thanks !! Die heart Cowboy fan since 1968 so many young guy's from 20 years old to 50 do know or understand the impact Landry had on the modern game. Flex defense 4/3 defense bringing the shot gun back in the 70 s had not been used since 40s and adding some wrinkles to it and how about sending in the plays which Roger got flack for and every team has been doing it for years!
So many Sundays as a little boy I’d sit with my dad and watch the Cowboys. If they lost he’d grumble and call them the Cowgirls. Ha! Thanks for your comments!
And a fact that many don’t know, the Chiefs and the Cowboys both played their games in the Cotton bowl 1960-63. But back then they were called the Dallas Texans, then moved to KC and changed their name. If you look up early KC Chiefs games during the 60s they shifted too. A lot. I’ve got an example on my channel.
@@robertansley6331 that's awesome about you and your Dad. I have 4 son's their all grown the baby is 26. They are all Cowboy fans wonder how that happened
Buffalo was the first team to use running plays out of the shotgun. They started that in 1980. Now everyone does it. Some teams use the formation and its sibling the pistol too much. Like KC and Buffalo, especially Buffalo. Tampa uses it but not nearly as much. I don't think they use it with Brady as much as New England did. But you saw the results in the Super Bowl. They ran the ball down KCs throat mostly from non shotgun formations. And KC was in the shotgun even more than normal. And they are in it alot. Buffalo even more. They barely even line up conventional. Reminds me of another team that did that, had the best offense and best QB in the NFL then plays the best defense and an aging, obviously declining Payton Manning, and gets dominated, especially by Denver's defense, in the Super Bowl. They ran alot out out of it too. And look what's happened to the QB since, even after going to New England under Belichick. That play that was used originally by the Bills in 1980 was used to catch people off guard because like with Dallas at the time, no one expected a run out of the shotgun. It's not a regular run offense and some teams think it is. Landry's gotta be rolling in his grave. He adapted Buffalo's idea but Buffalo in the 80s and even the Super Bowl years never overused it and neither did Landry, unless they were behind and time was running out. But they would be passing in that situation anyway.
Tom Landry created the 4-3 defense.
He revolutionized the shotgun formation which is the main formation of today.
They need to add this in Madden when you take a knee as the cowboys
Like last night at Philly! So cool they still honor the man.
Landry in the Cowboys completely changed the game the shotgun the hail Mary ,shift etc.
Man those were the days. Sitting on the couch with my dad every Sunday, watching the Boys performing the choreographed shift, Dorsett punching through the line, Red Cashion calling _First Dooooown_ and Don Meredith singing _Turn out the lights, the party’s over_ Thanks for your comment.
Americas Team 😉
The 49er's Coach Howard Hickey invented the Shotgun formation
@@pablo11051 tom Landry, invented the 43 defense invented shotgun. He also invented automobiles, and they say he invented gravity defying technology.
He came up with the 4-3 defense that everyone uses.
Tony D. was fun to watch, a running back with an afterburner when he got through the line.
The best Cowboy back of all time
@@christophertracy2807 Emmitt is equally great but they had completely different supporting casts so it’s hard for me to compare.
This is the clearest, sharpest footage of 1970s football that I have ever seen anywhere on the internet, until after the Butch Johnson TD. Well done!
Thank for watching and your kind comments. If I had access to the NFL film archives it would have been better. I applied video filters in various amounts to improve sharpness and color saturation. They are in a smaller window to keep from pixilating the non-HD recordings. It took a lot of searching and required finding full games because summaries of ganes rarely show “The Shift”. On one of the plays against Baltimore you hear the radio announcer instead. That’s old 240i footage. Plus I wanted variety and famous players that became coaches, tough assignment. My new one coming on the Doomsday Defense is pretty clear too.
@@robertansley6331 I appreciate the increase in quality!!!
@@sludge4125 I just realized that on a few of the clips after Butch Johnson’s catch that I forgot to apply the filters. So you can see how much they helped.
@@robertansley6331 👍
I remember when the Boys first came to Dallas. Nothing went right for a long time. The Metroplex papers were screaming to fire Landry. Tex Gave him a 15 year no cut contract. No one knew just how much of a genius move that was. A legend
That’s right! I remember now that you said this that Tex wanted to end the debate so they could focus on the game so he signed Landry to that long deal. Thanks for your comment!
Actually it was a 10 year contract but who's counting.
That was beautiful
I like that the Cowboys only use it now when they are in victory formation. An homage to Coach Landry.
I think its very cool. I read that when it was suggested they all said "Yes!"
That’s terrific! I had no idea. Outstanding!
The Landry shift is what made me a fan as a 10 yr old kid in 1975
Stuck with them ever since
During the Landry years, I never worried about whether we had a good coach. We had an all-time great
I keep saying I loved how the announcers would always say "Tom Landry - the only coach the Cowboys ever had!" Thanks for your comment.
You make a great point. Murchison could have easily moved away from Landry after 5 years of " next year's champions".
Pat Summeral. Only one to do both play by play and color commentary in the super bowl
His voice said _Sunday with my dad watching Cowboys_
And the only former player to do play by play I think
@@Grandizer8989 Does your name mean every so often you have the feeling a spell was cast on you in another life? Ha!
The shift was cool, but the Cowboys won because they had great players and a great coach.
True, other teams tried some of the concepts early on and werent nearly as successful.
Great video!!
I loved the shift.
Back in the day when I was a lineman playing junior college ball we would imitate the Landry shift during practice.
That's a sweet pre-snap sequence. It's just to draw in the linebacker so he can clear out the zone on the right, and then sell the run on the play action. I also love how the the receiver peels out to the right to catch the ball.
Amazing quality footage!
Thank you sir. It was hard to find good footage. That’s why the opening description of The Shift is in a simulated projector screen, it’s only 320x200. I used a lot of filters, you can compare how well they worked because I forgot to apply them to the last play, the TD pass to Bullet Bob Hayes.
Love seein' Romo and the gang doing the shift!
That was class. I read that when it was suggested everyone on the team wholeheartedly said yes. And none of those dudes were even born yet during the shift years!
I'm not a cowboys fan but I do have to say Tom Landry was one of the greatest coaches of all time I know it's business but I did not like how Jerry Jones fired Tom Landry he could have done a better way of doing that
Some of the greatest Sundays of my youth.
2:30 - Mike Ditka with an excellent catch! Yes...THAT Mike Ditka.
Go Cowboys! - I would love to see the Laundry Shift all through the playoffs.
I'm thinking we're going to see it really soon now
You knew you were watching the cowboys back then by how frequently they stood up
I became a cowboys fan in 1977. Saw the Landry shift for the first time. Poetry in motion.
Hate to admit it, it looks cool as hell. Was also very satisfying to see it in the movie Invincible.
-Steelers fan-
I used to watch the Tom Landry Show every autumn wknd in the 70s. Coach would explain plays from the previous week's game with a simple film projector. He held a rewind button that he'd constantly use over and over on a play to explain how and why the play worked- or didn't work. Nothing fancy- but you'd get dizzy sometimes if he went back and forth with it to show a key block or tackle. I can still picture it in my mind's eye. I was around 9, 10 and 11- watching it on my brother's little Sylvania TV set atop his dresser. The Landry & Tex Schramm Cowboys. It was more than 'America's Team'. It was MY team growing up in Austin, Texas.
Hey thanks for sharing that. I started with them from day one sitting on the couch with my dad watching all those painful early losses!
T.L"s Multiple Formation: Science and Beauty..never to be seen again.
Legendary.. GENIUS ..Tom Landry..forever..Immortal.. 🙄🔥☀️💪♥️
I use to Love It!!!! THANK YOU - MEMORIES
The shifts were cool. I didn't realize it was meant to block out the backfield shifts. Nice!!!
A lost art. ⚡️
I've always wondered about that stroke the O line did now 50 years later and I know it was to screen the RB shift genius and simple
Thanks for the memories!
My stepbrother was a huge Dolphins fan so we had not too few arguments on Sundays!
Legendary.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh, I soooo wish they would do this these days!! Only shift they do now is Victory shift... but I still love seeing that!! #StayBlessed #CowboysNation ☆☆☆☆☆
lol...they did it yesterday.
@@Mercenary-1914 true, sometimes I see em doing it ( & love seeing it) & sometimes I'm too busy pumping my fist , lol I don't see them doing it in games now. Let's jus hope they do it from now till the SuperBowl!! 🤜🤛
@@dallaslong5703 As a Jets fan living in the VA DC area....I pull hard for Cowboys! Lets GO!
Reborn Tonight
Even though he didn't invent it, it was Coach Landry who revived the old Bears Shotgun formation, modified it into the Spread that is still used by many teams today. In a couple of the clips you could hear Don Merediths voice who was the starting Quarterback before Morton and Staubach.
I couldn’t find a play that met all the requirements for Dandy Don, but I’m sure they are out there somewhere because he really was a great quarterback. I needed a full Shift, and a great play. Meredith took the Cowboys through their bad days during the buildup of the team. Lots of Shifts but the players weren’t all there yet for a great play. I settled for him as a commentator. I mention him in the last play of this video in my trivia comments under Closed Captions.
The Legend....
And last night they did the shift again at Philly in honor of Landry!
Five Super Bowl appearances in nine seasons and two titles. Not bad.
If not for Jackie Smith he would have had 3 titles.
Just goes to show people winning it isn't ALL about the coach or the QB.
@@gregoryhoward7594 Do you really think the Cowboys would have beaten the Steelers if Smith caught that Ball? It is possible but there is no way of knowing. At best things would have been 35-35 with 22 seconds left if things still went the way they did. There is no way of knowing who would have won the toss in overtime. Don't forget back then whoever won the toss and got the ball could win on a field goal.
@@cosmoevents21st56 The only reason I sometimes bring that play (that haunted Jackie forever) is when people act like Pittsburgh dominated the Cowboys. They won the game but to your point a 35-35 game going into overtime says they were pretty evenly matched.
@@robertansley6331 Absolutely it was pretty evenly matched and you never know what momentum Dallas would have had if he had caught it and scored the TD. I still consider it one of the greatest Super Bowls of all time. I was ten at the time.
That’s Ditka catching a TD AT 2:01
Hey thanks for spotting that! I tried hard to include players that wound up coaching in later years. A couple of of the plays coach Dan Reeves got some good yards. I made sure I had _Bullet Bob_ Hayes and Tony Dorsett and I wanted to include Morton, Staubach, and Danny White. Of course Billy Joe Dupree and Pearson had to included. And I tried to grab a different style of shift for each play. My favorite is @2:00 where the player on the end stepped closer to the line, closing the gap which almost drew an offsides. Thanks for taking time to comment, I appreciate it.
Da Bears
Yes it is Mike
This just popped up for me. Nice job.
Thanks! I had 100k views but realized the clips I chose were not very good, bad plays, so I started over with winning plays. The small window in the beginning was an attempt to avoid copyright, but it didn’t help.
Me too! Just showed up on my feed. I'm not complaining though, I enjoyed the video. But it's kinda creepy how TH-cam's algorithms knew I'd like this video. I guess it's seen my history and I've watched a lot of Cowboys highlights? Probably.
@@clshep It's a great feature for finding content and I have come upon new videos I like, especially in the music genre. There's a whole thing around singing coaches reviewing acts which lead me to discover Nightwish and the Symphonic Metal genre.
Sports hated the Cowboys… but respected the way they played an excellent brand of football on offense and defense. Coach Landry is THAT DUDE!!!
The bomb that Craig Morton threw to Bob Hayes in that Monday Night game against the Giants (starting around 4:50) was the last touchdown the Cowboys scored in the Cotton Bowl. They would play their first game at Texas Stadium 2 weeks later when they pounded the Patriots 44-21.
Hey great trivia! Thanks for posting!
@@robertansley6331 You're most welcome! The 1971 season is the one I treasured the most since that was the year the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl, 24-3 over the Dolphins. Thanks for the videos.
@@ericschminke8233 That was indeed a sweet one. My stepbrother was a rabid Dolphins fan. My dad and I harassed him mercilessly!