West Coast Offense

[y2b]

How many teams have we played the last couple of years run that?

Green Bay, Atlanta? Gruden has his own version of something, not really West Coast...

 

[magnus]

Gruden's is WCO. He changed some terminology.
GB
TB
NO
ATL
there's debate over whether NYJ was this year, being that Heimerdinger came out of GB initially. MN we could argue about.
AZ
Chicago, technically - Ron Turner was a WCO guy in college. I wouldn't call them a tremendously short passing team, nor some others, but as I've noted, you don't have to run it exactly as Bill Walsh did in 1980. No one does.

Seattle will. Denver would.

 

[y2b]

when he got to Tampa, there was something he said about it being Gulf Coast...

 

[magnus]

when he got to Tampa, there was something he said about it being Gulf Coast...

when Ray Rhodes got hired in Philly (w/Gruden), they called it something else, too. It's a dumb joke.

 

[Gen Scope]

Gruden's is WCO. He changed some terminology.
GB
TB
NO
ATL
there's debate over whether NYJ was this year, being that Heimerdinger came out of GB initially. MN we could argue about.
AZ
Chicago, technically - Ron Turner was a WCO guy in college. I wouldn't call them a tremendously short passing team, nor some others, but as I've noted, you don't have to run it exactly as Bill Walsh did in 1980. No one does.

Seattle will. Denver would.

NO was? That seems surprising. I guess I always thought of them as a running offense.

 

[Gen Scope]

 

[y2b]

what about the Pats?

 

[magnus]

NO was? That seems surprising. I guess I always thought of them as a running offense.

This isn't the 1970s.
Of course, the misnomer that the WCO is only this formation, or only this type pass, or only this goal, realistically went out once more than one coach was running it. It's universally adaptable.