Former NFL coach Sam Wyche dies at 74. He helped popularize the no-huddle offense and brought the Cincinnati Bengals tantalizingly close to a Super Bowl win in the late 1980s.
Sam Wyche, the former NFL coach who helped popularize the no-huddle offense and brought the Cincinnati Bengals tantalizingly close to a Super Bowl win in the late 1980s, died Thursday, the league announced.
He was 74.Wyche was head coach for the Bengals from 1984 to 1991, and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1992 to 1995, compiling a regular-season record of 84-107.His most successful season as head coach came in the 1988 season, when his Bengals went 12-4 and made it to Super Bowl XXIII, where they lost 20-16 on a last-minute touchdown pass from San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana."Sam was a wonderful guy," Bengals President Mike Brown said Thursday.
— Boomer Esiason January 2, 2020 "He was an even better human being," Esiason wrote."He loved his players and always kept it interesting. He taught me how to be a NFL QB. My heart breaks for his wife Jane his kids Zak and Kerry."Wyche also had been a volunteer coach at Pickens High School in South Carolina, where he lived, CNN affiliate WYFF reported.CNN's Jill Martin contributed to this report.
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