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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
No such claim was made, he adopted a new system at the time that no one was using and won SBs with it. Gilman just used the forward pass that had been used before. Plenty of short passes had been thrown before Gilman so by your definition he didn't innovate anything either. Genius in the NFL is doing something that isn't commonly in use and surprising your opponents with something they haven't seen. Thats the only genius that was claimed.
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Gillman took a rudimentary passig game that had two or three routes, and expanded it.
He created the full route tree that is used by the NFL today, and he made the TE a part of the passing game.