What is the Shanahan's new Offense called? Is it still West Coast?

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

If you want to get technical, Bill Walsh had more of a Stanford offense that got labelled WCO... Air Coryell was more West Coast... and Joe GIbbs put his own variation on it, which some called the East Coast offense...

It's like a spread, but with more pistol formations and less WRs spread out... plus Shanny can incorporate his running game... it's rare you see such innovation... the last big innovation on offense that I remember was the Rams offense that Mike Martz was using, which was a variation of Norv Turner-Ernie Zampese.

I may be slightly (or more) wrong or over-arching in some of the above, but it's an interesting topic nonetheless

this is pretty much how I understand offenses too. Air Coryell was actually developed in St. Louis. Also Turner/Martz/Zampese are under the Dan Coryell tree

There is the Coryell system

West Coast Offense

There is also the Erhardt-Perkins offense which the Giants used under Parcells, and what Belichek uses today in New England.

And finally, the spread offense. Which New England has incorporated with many other teams.

Actually' date=' it uses a lot of the fundamentals of the West Coast offense. If you notice, there are a lot stretch runs, but instead of doing it in the traditional under-center formation, RG3 takes the snap out of the pistol, and still hands it off in a classic zone-stretch fashion. By doing it in the pistol formation, however, gives them flexibility to add their own wrinkles, such as the triple-read option and so on.

It's essentially the West Coast offense used in a pistol formation, and all I know is that it's working....[/quote']

yeah, this is right.

Also, does anyone else remember the Giants lining up in the pistol last week? They didnt even make a mention of it during the game, and maybe I was seeing it wrong, but I remember Bradshaw lining up right behind Eli in the pistol at least once.