CLEVELAND, Ohio — When your offense leads the nation in explosive plays, people want to know your secret.

For Lane Kiffin, that secret’s unexpected origin comes from a lifetime of learning from defensive masterminds.

On a recent episode of “The Pat McAfee Show,” the Ole Miss head coach pulled back the curtain on the development of his offensive system, revealing that his high-flying attack was built on knowledge gleaned from three of football’s defensive giants.

“You’re talking about three of the greatest defensive minds ever, that one I was raised with,” Kiffin explained. “The other two I spent nine years combined with sitting in meetings where they were talking about what gives them problems and just kind of kept all that information and then created this offense.”

Those three defens

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