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Thus began the deal that astonished the sports world last week: Miami Dolphin Running Backs Csonka and Kiick and Wide Receiver Warfield, stalwarts of the Dolphin dynasty, are going to defect to the Toronto Northmen of the W.F.L. the season after next, when their present contracts expire. To jump, they signed a joint contract that totals more than $3 million in salary, bonus money and benefits. Csonka will receive close to $1.4 million over a three-year period, Warfield $900,000, and Kiick $700,000 -three to four tunes more than they might have expected from the Dolphins. Further, they...
With a pool a few feet from his bedroom, a golf course just beyond his backyard, and consecutive Super Bowl victories in his scrapbook, Miami Dolphin Coach Don Shula could hardly be blamed for romping on his laurels. Training camp does not open for 3½ months; there should be little to do. Right? Wrong. Shula is in fact working ten hours or more a day searching out Dolphin weaknesses and building strengths...
...games. This is no cursory screening. Using an elaborate marking system, Shula and his six assistant coaches go over every play to grade the performance of each player. In reviewing last October's Miami-Cleveland game, for instance, Shula and his staff discovered 50 breakdowns in Dolphin defenses during the first half alone...
...work. If we didn't do that, our quarterback might go into a huddle in a crucial situation, unknowingly pick a flawed play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics, there are approximately 100 plays in the Dolphin book and each season between 5% and 10% are abandoned. In recent years the Dolphins have dropped quick screen passes and a series of counterflow running plays in which the ball carrier fakes a step in one direction and runs in the other. Two or three new plays are usually added every...
...season program: planning the upcoming training camp. This, too, is revised from year to year, though it always bears the Shula stamp of relentless organization. Last year many of the days were broken down into ten-minute periods for jogging, machine work and other exercises. Many Dolphin veterans, as Shula himself admits, "bitch and moan" about the regimentation. "But they always do what we ask." Last year Shula asked for a second Super Bowl win. This year he will be requesting a third...