"As the architect of the "Greatest Show on Turf" offense that fueled the St. Louis Rams' Super Bowl title 26 years ago, Mike Martz was an in-demand speaker when he retired from the NFL in 2011. For years he worked the lecturing circuit, but there was one visit that made a lasting impression. It was 2018, and Martz had been invited to the Miami Dolphins training camp by former head coach Adam Gase. Dolphins' wide receivers coach, Ben Johnson, made sure not to waste the opportunity."
""I've had people ask me about [the Zampese play] a million times," Martz told ESPN Thursday. "He's the only one that asked me what exactly is the quarterback doing with this and what makes him do that? "Everybody else just kind of skims through, and then they go run it and can't figure out why it's not successful because they don't know how to adjust it. He wanted all the adjustments -- how do you do this and why? We talked for an hour just on that pass play." As other Dolphins coaches trickled out of Johnson's office, Martz and Johnson spent the rest of the afternoon dissecting the intricacies of the scheme. There was so much to discuss that the conversation extended to dinner in a nearby strip mall."
Mike Martz, architect of the "Greatest Show on Turf" Rams offense and a sought-after speaker after his 2011 retirement, visited the Miami Dolphins training camp in 2018. The signature pass from his system is the Zampese Play, run in 124 variations in that offense and inspired by Ernie Zampese. Dolphins wide receivers coach Ben Johnson pursued detailed understanding of every variation and the quarterback's adjustments. Martz explained the precise quarterback actions and the reasons behind them, spending an hour on the play and then continuing to dissect the scheme throughout the afternoon and into dinner.
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