I don't think anyone get the feeling that they run a west coast system. Also, Sporano was incapable of designing an offense. That was probably the most poorly designed offense I've ever seen actually. The man blocking scheme looked like big guys pushing each other whatever which way, the spacing for the WR's was always off, and the routes looked like they were drawn up by 10 year old's playing touch football in the street. It was truly embarrassing to watch. So, although both Musgrave and Shurmur have west coast backgrounds, you've heard it from them; they try to make the offense QB friendly which is what every coach should do.
They do a lot of screens and such, but they also go down the field a ton. They fit the gameplan to the QB. That's what Sanchez was good at in college and what he's been good at when he's had the weapons to go down field.
Kelly doesn't run a WCO but he utilizes a lot of its concepts that's why he surrounds himself with WCO coaches. With regards to Sparano, I never had an issue with the designs of his plays like I did with Schittyheimer. My issue was Sparano was ingame play calling which was way worse than Schittyheimer. Also, he was attempting to run a scheme that didn't fit our personnel. Thus, a lot of our offensive players were being asked to do things they were not capable of doing not unlike what Rex has been doing for a couple of years now.
If they try the same approach against the Packers, which I doubt, they will be in trouble. I suspect we'll see a lot more of the horizontal stuff against the Packers with the occasional down the field throw.
Mark is always good when everything breaks right for him. And it did last night. Not much adversity or a Panthers pass rush. He did avoid one possible sack and turned it into a very nice completion. I was surprised how many passes the Eagles threw last night and how little they went to McCoy. Chip believes in taking the pedal to the metal but I'm not sure how far it's going to take them. I still firmly believe that Mark will be rattled. I would go with a more conservative run based offense. I'd put the ball in McCoy's and Sproles hands before I would Sanchez.
I think it's more along the lines of we clearly weren't going to change our coaching and the talent around him for the past two years has been less than adequate so whose to say those things would've changed?
In the future I sure hope we get rid of the CS that has no clue how to develop a QB before we get rid of a QB with talent.
The QB was developing just fine until we ran the OC out of town and we stopped providing the QB w/ talent to work with.
We'll see. The Packers obviously have a much stronger secondary, but they can definitely be exploited down the seams. Celek and Matthews are going to find new life with Sanchez at the helm.
I actually thought Schotty designed a decent offense, but it was very complicated. I don't think we've had a good playcaller for a while now. Marty designs the best offense of the three by far though.
This fun to play, I want to try. Yes, Sanchez is better than Manning. He's better in December and January when it matters, and he's better under pressure by miles, and orchestrating 4 road playoff wins in two years is something Manning would of never done. Manning is at least 50% his weapons right now. Put him on a team that doesn't have pro bowl receivers and tight ends all over the place that can get 50 YAC twice a game and it would be obvious. How smart do I sound?
I hate all the zone read stuff so I prefer the old O though I know Marty has just been adapting to the changing times. I can't stand all the shotgun.
Agreed. MM is adapting to his personnel more than the times IMO. I don't think we would be running a lot of zone reads if let's say MS was our QB. We would be running a lot more traditional WCO plays from under center as well.
