Should we ditch the West Coast offense?

Blackacre — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:29:46 -0000

or Reid's version of it? I'm tired of hearing how difficult our offense is for receivers. Here's a suggestion: make it simpler. I don't remember Colts, Steelers or Patriots receivers talking about how hard their offense is.

In fact, I've looked at all of the SB winners after 1981, which is when the 49ers won their first SB and when the WCO began to make its way through the NFL. The 49ers won 5 SBs with it, but no other team has won more than one except Denver, who ran the ball a lot with Terrell Davis anyway. Green Bay and Tampa Bay won a SB each with the WCO, although I discount Tampa Bay's championship because the Raiders were too lazy to change their offense which Jon Gruden already knew in and out.

So in the last 25 years, only four teams have won with the WCO. That's not that impressive to me. Look at the teams who have won without it in the past 25 years: Colts, Patriots, Steelers, Ravens, Cowboys, Redskins, Giants, Rams, Raiders and the Bears. I think we all agree that we need to have a more balanced attack like we did last year and stop throwing the ball 60-70% of the time.

I'm not saying Reid hasn't been successful with his version of the WCO. But I don't think we need to use his version of the WCO or any version of the WCO to be successful. We have a big offensive line (by the way, Denver has a smaller line and they continue to have 1,000 yard backs year after year) that should be beating up the defense and controlling the clock, rather than spending so much time in pass protection. We can do better on offense.

I'd like to hear what everyone thinks. I had to get that off my chest.

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Should we ditch the West Coast offense?