Our West Coast Playbook

[RedZone]

Originally Posted by Sean"Big Hurt"Taylor

I was thinking the other day and our west coast offense could have a mixture of Washington, Tennessee and Seattle.... You could take a little bit further and include Tampa Bay, Philadelphia and Minnesota to that equation. Of course, Zorn will run his own hybrid west coast system....

This is a deep analysis. The new offensive is bound to be a hybrid of sorts. Zorn has billed it "West Coast," but I recall that he hinted it would not be purely that style. It seems clear that it won't be a carbon copy of another team's system.

None of the Skins new offensive coaches have reputations as masterminds. Maybe they will after the season is through, but a new staff with a new playbook suggests that it might be an evolving system -- with tweaks and improvements game to game.

Don't read this as pessimistic but, like breaking in a pair of new shoes, there's bound to be some pain before the comfort.

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by RedZone

This is a deep analysis. The new offensive is bound to be a hybrid of sorts. Zorn has billed it "West Coast," but I recall that he hinted it would not be purely that style. It seems clear that it won't be a carbon copy of another team's system.

None of the Skins new offensive coaches have reputations as masterminds. Maybe they will after the season is through, but a new staff with a new playbook suggests that it might be an evolving system -- with tweaks and improvements game to game.

Don't read this as pessimistic but, like breaking in a pair of new shoes, there's bound to be some pain before the comfort.

Keep in mind that with Zorn being a former QB and QB coach, he's going to do things that are extremely QB friendly. He's not going to be stubborn like Gruden or Holmgren and try to cram his 'system' into the players heads with no regard for their strengths and weaknesses.. The other HUGE difference is we are keeping the same running scheme and terminology intact so we're not learning an entirely new offense, but a new passing game.. Even with that, it's not like the West Coast offense is a brand new scheme to football.. Campbell played in it in college, Portis played in it in Denver, Cooley played in it in college so we're not reinventing the wheel.. With our talent and more aggressive playcalling I think we'll be fine this year..