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For once, a coach loses control

By Adrian Wojnarowski
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, July 25, 2004

Long ago, the National Football League had transformed into the end of the line for coaching control, the last stop in pro sports where the guy with a gut rolling down out of his golf shirt could inspire fear and loathing in the lives of three hundred pound men. They control everything, these NFL coaches do, and that's the reason Ricky Williams delivered such a devastating blow to the Dolphins' Dave Wannstedt. Wannstedt couldn't control him. Coaches can live with ...

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