Really great article on offensive philosophies.

[wickedsolo]

http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2010...-nfl-offensive

Dont know if anyone has seen this before or not, but it gives a good comparison of the ERdhart-Perkins offense vs the west coast vs the Coryell vs the Run-n-shoot, etc.

Pretty good write up and gives some graphics on the route tree, etc.

[Ravenswintitle]

that's a good overview; may as well add the spread and the zone-read since they've made their way into the league also.

Not sure any team sticks with their base offense all the time anymore.

[Bl1tz]

Very nice read

If anyone has any similar articles, feel free to post em. Cheers

[wickedsolo]

I really liked reading about the Coryell offense from this perspective because nowhere does it mention Cam Cameron.

What it does say is that a great OL is paramount for the success of the offense because of the nature of the deep routes being run.


Well...we've seen a lot of how that is true...

[MarkS]

The NY Times did an excellent 7-part series on NFL defenses that I'll post in it's own thread.

[JAB1985]

Good article. I know theyve been using the spread more but im not as familiar with that since i dont watch college, but isnt that just a variation of wco where you play from the gun and in a hurry up. Basically what we did against the cards.

[wickedsolo]

Good article. I know theyve been using the spread more but im not as familiar with that since i dont watch college, but isnt that just a variation of wco where you play from the gun and in a hurry up. Basically what we did against the cards.

Pretty much.

The spread is just taking as many receivers as possible and putting them all in routes.

There are different types of spread O's, but you could certainly argue that the roots can be traced back the Erdhart-Perkins model or the Bill Walsh model.