Yea, because "Woodstrock" never worked in Miami.
Are you sure D4me? Here's the record with the Wood-Strock Hybrid Quarterbacking Scheme that Shula had
1980 - 8 - 8
1981 - 11-4-1 Lost to the Chargers in the Epic in Miami game
1982 - Super Bowl (Abbreviated season because of the strike) 7-2-0
Here's the difference.
Shula ran two types of offenses. He ran an option offense to take advantage of Woodleys running ability and speed. Woodley threw the ball too hard and wasn't that accurate.
When Strock came into the game, the offense went vertical because Strock had touch on his deep ball.
So teams had to prepare for two types of offenses which were entirely different.
If Shula had yanked Woodley at halftime in Super Bowl 17 and put Strock in, we probably would have won but for some unknown reason (and this was a fault of Shula doing his whole career), he stuck with Woodley and the Skins' made a comeback.
Marino was bought in to challenge Woodley but by that time, Woodley's heart was not in the game. I could have been that he never got over that Super Bowl 17 loss. Marino replaced him and the rest is history.
I don't know of any coach that could change his total offensive scheme in a middle of a game today. Everyone wants their "guy". Shula, Bill Walsh, Paul Brown and Hank Stram can change offenses on the fly during a game and still win.
An 26-14-1 record over that period with a Super Bowl appearance with the youngest QB (Woodley) to ever start a Super Bowl at that time is pretty good.
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