Originally posted by jonnydel:
Originally posted by Niners816:
Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
The Colts offense with Manning. That was pretty basic but they also had HOF level players at QB and WR and a crapload of other offensive talent.
The simpler your scheme is, the more dominant your individual players have to be. The more complex the scheme, the longer it will take for everyone to get on the same page. And your players better not be low football IQ types because the more complex the scheme, the more opportunities for error.
Did they ever attach a title to the Tom Moore /Peyton offense? I've seen it called an Air Coryell. But Coryell's come in many flavors. Personally I always think of Gibbs and Martz's version and those were really complex.
I will agree though on the manning colts offense it was rather simple in concepts but was performed at virtuoso type levels.
I don't think a title has ever been put on it. From what I've gathered in listening to a lot of Peyton talk about it it sounds like a a b*****d child of Air Coryell and WCO. They aren't strict nomenclature for either one. Peyton has talked about how there was a lot of WC nomenclature and concepts that they run but it definitely looks more air-coryell than WCO.
For theirs, it was only simpler because you had the only QB/OC in one player in the league. Moore wasn't even calling plays for the last 10 years. He would simply radio in "drive" or "divide" concepts to Manning and he'd do the rest. He'd put the players in position and if he felt the defense was going to be playing something that would defeat that concept he'd change the concept and audible the play.
Yep. That offense had a little bit of everything in it. Yet, it was surprisingly vanilla and non-complicated. The receivers almost always lined up on the same side of the field. The tight end almost never left the field. They ran a hand full of running plays. It was a timing offense that put a premium on timing and execution.
It was kinda like the offensive opposite to the logic of the Seahawk's defense. Superior talent overruliing superior schematics.
When your able to combine both of them. You have the Atlanta Falcons' 2016 offense.
[ Edited by Willisfn4life on Aug 23, 2017 at 11:04 AM ]