Originally posted by gold49digger:
Originally posted by Giedi:
Originally posted by NCommand:
I haven't heard a 9er coach talk about footwork since Mooch. Love this.
"Being around Kyle, the one thing that I kind of forgotten and quickly remembered is that he's very particular about our feet. Watching the difference with Matt Ryan his first year with Kyle and the second year, it was almost like night and day. So, I've tried to really take what Matt tried to do in his second year and tried to implement with some drills and things like that."
Well its that aspect of the WCO, timing and anticipation. The Harbaugh offense was not predicated on that. His offense was more predicated on the play action, deception, and pure power stuff. Nice thing about Shanahan is he incorporates all that stuff in and adds the zone run to it also. Pretty much an unbeatable system if he gets the right personnel in it.
We all thought that Harbaugh was going to bring back the WCO. Turns out, he was just a power run guy. Kyle is the the guy to bring the niners back to its roots.
cant wait
His offense wasn't bad. It was a more vertical kind of WCO, the power run will work with a vertical passing game. That was the Air-Coryell system that Walsh borrowed from and incorporated. All Walsh did was turn it from vertical to horizontal. The play action pass is a staple to both systems, but the difference between the Walsh WCO and the Air Coryell/Al Davis(sid gilman) offense is the power run. Without the power run, the vertical offense will not work, and you need speed at the WR positions to make the Air Coryell work and a very good receiver TE to work the underneath routes. Lack of a good TE killed us against 4-3 under defenses we faced in Seadderall and other teams that have good corners and safeties. Stupid Baalke never really got the receivers and TE's that this vertical style of passing game needed. The WCO doesn't need that premier rusher for the ground game, it needs a good runner yes, but the RB's and FB's are more receivers than runners. You see Kyle's system make 1,000 yard rushers out of 4th+ rounder's, because they are also very good receivers, and that makes it different than the power run Harbaugh system. Tough to load up on the run in Kyle's system, when the RB's can fake a run and go out for a pass.