Real nice article I had stashed away about the Tampa 2 true origin

[Dwinsgames]

pretty nice read of the days of yesteryear some of you may be surprised of its content http://draftsteel.com/ff/images/smilies/pimp.gif

http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/2738526-85/tampa-defense-dungy-steelers-coordinator-cover-defensive-lambert-alan-leftwich#axzz2DkuEmon8 (http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/2738526-85/tampa-defense-dungy-steelers-coordinator-cover-defensive-lambert-alan-leftwich#axzz2DkuEmon8)

THIS IS STEELER ORIENTED DO NOT LET THE TITLE FOOL YOU















The roots of the Tampa 2 system actually are in the Steel Curtain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Curtain) days of Pittsburgh football. "My philosophy is really out of the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers playbook,” said Dungy during media interviews while at Super Bowl XLI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLI). “That is why I have to laugh when I hear 'Tampa 2'. Chuck Noll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Noll) and Bud Carson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Carson) — that is where it came from, I changed very little

[43Hitman]

Yeah I've heard Tony Dungy give credit several times to Noll and Carson for his defense's orgin. Tony is a class act and its not surprising that Tomlin is from his coaching tree. I'm confident that when Lebeau decides to hang up his whistle that we'll see a version of that defense again.

[Dwinsgames]

to bad the media seems to think its Dungy and Kiffins scheme ....
( and most of the public ) because of the media falsely advertising it as such

[GoSlash27]

Even Dungy himself always said the "Tampa 2" wasn't his invention, but rather Chuck Noll's. But the media always ignored that part.