Offseason chatter regarding running back Chris Evans taking over the Gio Bernard role. This should help the Chargers OL improve on their 4th worst ranking in FO's Adjusted Line Yards metric. Whoever emerges as the steady #2 WR could also have some fantasy relevance. While most fans have already looked at the upcoming free agent class, some might need to remember that more names will be added to the mix as teams make cuts ahead of the new league year. With the lack of playmakers available, it would seem likely Payton designs a lot of different looks for Kamara to get the ball. Overall, the goal of the Coryell offense is to have at least two downfield, fast wide receivers who adjust to the deep pass very well, combined with a sturdy pocket quarterback with a strong arm. Play Caller/Tenure: Tim Kelly (OC) - 2 years as OC with HOU, 7 years with the team overall. From West Coast spacing concepts (likely learned during his time with Steve Mariucci) to Air Coryell vertical concepts (likely learned during his time with Mike Martz) to the route combinations . Personnel Preferences: 88% of offense was 11 (66%) or 12 (22%) personnel. Frank Pollack was hired to be the run game coordinator. Additional Notes:Jalen Hurts and Miles Sanders should benefit in the run game while DeVonta Smith and the TEs should benefit in the passing game. That might not be the direction Long opts to go either with a change at all, or Martz if there is a change but it's hugely . Personnel Preferences: BUF used 10 personnel 15% (2. Play Caller/Tenure: Matt LaFleur (HC) - 2yrs as GB HC and play-caller; 4yrs total as an OC; 3yrs total as a play-caller. Additional Notes: As OC in BUF, Lynn ranked #2 in Rush Attempts, #1 in Rushing Yards, and #1 in Rushing TDs. Personnel Preferences: Personnel usage last year was mostly 11 and 12, using 12 higher than league average and 11 a little less. The offense has 100% continuity and the OL returns all 5 starters. The Cowboys may wind up losing two key defenders this offseason. Afterwards, Turner became the head coach of the Washington Redskins and Zampese replaced him in Dallas. Players are schemed open/into space when they get the ball. Big news, our FantasyData 2021 NFL Draft Kit is FREE this year for all our Premium and Premium Plus subscribers. Scheme: LaFleur is from the Shanahan/McVay-WCO tree. Mahomes, Hill, Kelce are all elites at their positions. Play Caller/Tenure: Brian Daboll (Offensive Coordinator) - 3yrs w BUF; 7yrs as an OC. Additional Notes: LaFleurs offense has been top-8 in Rushing Yards 3 out of 4 yrs. Runs a lot of 11 personnel, Verts, Play Action, and outside-zone run plays, although it looks like he switched to more gap/pull/inside-zone last year. Nagy was above average in 19 using 21, 10, 02, & 01 personnel. Putting the players in motion also had the advantage of allowing the quarterback to determine pre-snap if the defense would be playing zone or man-to-man defense. Carr has 4,000+ Passing Yards all 3yrs under Gruden and his TDs are increasing. Turner favors a more limited palette of plays than Coryell and most other Coryell disciples, instead insisting on precise execution. [12] Coryell expanded on those principles by putting receivers in motion. Subsequently, Coryell's offense scheme was referred to as "Air Coryell"the name announcers had assigned to his high powered Charger offenses in San Diego, featuring 3 Hall of Famers in QB Dan Fouts, WR Charlie Joiner, & TE Kellen Winslow,[25] as well as Pro Bowl WR Wes Chandler & HB Chuck Muncie. Indications are he will run a Shanahan-style offense in New York which will feature heavy use of PA, pre-snap motion, multiple plays designed from the same formation, and utilize outside/wide zone run blocking scheme. Gruden installed RPOs and some Air Raid concepts. The Patriots used more 21 personnel than the rest of the league, running it 361 times for 37% of their plays. Scheme: The scheme is a morphed WCO that incorporates more shotgun and spread looks than a classic WCO and is adjusted to be opponent-specific with several wrinkles. Additional Notes:Starting QB undetermined. Scheme: Payton is from the Jon Gruden-WCO tree but has blended some of Pete Carmichaels E-P concepts into the offense. Play Caller/Tenure: Darrell Bevell (OC) - 1, Personnel Preferences: None Established by Meyer in the Pros. Damien Harris and James White are also worth drafting with Burkhead gone to Houston. Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliot's health statuses look good in OTAs. They also led the league in total yards in offense from 1978 to 1983 and in 1985. McDaniels needs to create an offense for Newton to thrive if this is true. The Turner strain of Coryell offenses are still very reliant on a good receiving TE. Whether the player is too expensive, is a bad scheme fit for a new incoming coaching staff, or . The passing game uses PA, pre-snap motion, and bunch formations. Jacobs is Gruden's first 1,000 yard RB for Gruden since Tyrone Wheatley in 2000. Joe Gibbs, the Chargers offensive coordinator at the time, said that marked "the evolution of the one-back offense."[23]. Martz became the Rams head coach and after five years was fired, at which point he became the offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions under Rod Marinelli, where he coached quarterback Jon Kitna. "Don Coryell Belongs in the Hall of Fame", July 1 (accessed October 4, 2008)", "Tight end rankings: Do Sharpe, Gonzalez deserve top spot? Mooney had 98 targets as a rookie. [14] Each receiver had two or three different route options they could adjust depending on the coverage during the play. Scheme: McDaniels runs a modified Erhardt-Perkins-style offense molded around the talent on the roster. Denver RBs were near dead last in RB routes run per game, Y/RR, RB Tar/G, RB Rec/G in 2020. Derrick Henry created a lot of opportunities for the pieces around him to have success in TEN. Rumor is LaFleur may allow Hackett to call plays but says there will be not much of a difference if he does. Our website may not look quite right in it. Consequently, the Saunders system does not score as many points as the Martz system. Play Caller/Tenure: Josh McDaniels (OC) - 9yrs currently and 3yrs prior with NE, 15yrs in NFL as OC/HC. Counter Weak: FB aligned tight to the line of scrimmage 4. 2018 Hilton led with 120 targets and Ebron right behind with 110 (Hines had 81 targets that year). Scheme: Lombardi will shape the offense around Herberts skill-set and use PA and a zone run game. "[35], Former head coach Marty Schottenheimer said "putting three receivers on one side and flooding that area" probably originated from the Coryell offense. QBs generally took snaps from under center to allow for more effective use of the play action pass. Mike McCarthy on new scheme: 'We'll build . This typically resulted in the offense lining up in 11 personnel, with three wide receivers, one tight end, and one running back. That was probably why he lashed out at the coach during . [citation needed]. Chark added 7 pounds of muscle to meet Meyers physique demands. If Dan Quinns defense is better than Nolans (which it should), then it could slow the offense a shade, as they will not be playing out of desperation all game. Gambling problem? Sure the team had a lot of success, going 17-8 during that run but it took a physical toll on the quarterback. . Coryell not only placed wide receivers in motion, he did so with tight ends and running backs as well. Montgomerys big year last year came with Lazor as play-caller. The highest usage outside of average was 01 personnel, 3rd highest usage behind Steelers and Bears. This could put a dent into Laviska Shenaults role. It will be 100% based on the offensive scheme that the play-caller for that team runs. Currently, this system is used (or will be used) by Kyle Shanahan (SF), Sean McVay (LAR), Matt LaFleur (GB), Kevin Stefanski (CLE), Arthur Smith (ATL), Shane Waldron (SEA), Klint Kubiak (MIN) (Klint is another child of a founder of this offense), Todd Downing (TEN), Mike LaFleur (NYJ), and possibly Matt Canada (PIT) if he survives past Big Ben's tenure in Pittsburgh. While with the Redskins, Turner tutored his quarterbacks coach at the time, Mike Martz, in the ways of the Coryell offense. OL was #3 in FO Adjusted Line Yards and 5, Play Caller/Tenure: Mike LaFleur (OC) - 1. For example, one of Coryells closest coaching assistants was Ernie Zampese, who coached at San Diego State and later with the Chargers under Coryell, holding a variety of roles that included being the offensive coordinator. The passing game will be modeled towards what Goff ran in LA with lots of 11 and 12 personnel, PA, and short to intermediate throws. The OL is elite and returns all 5 starters from 2020, a group that finished 4th in FO's Adjusted Line Yards metric. Imagine a Martz offense paired with a Long-Brady Hoke defense. TEN led the NFL in 12 percentage in 2020. Martz bought the media hype that he revolutionized the NFL with . His record as a head coach, however, has only seen limited results. Walsh's idea was to stretch the defense out horizontally to open up space for the QB to get the ball out quick to a player with room to run once they catch the ball. [8] Coryell's Chargers teams led the league in passing in seven of eight years. The Coryell offense is a combination of deep and mid range passing and power running. Later on, Zampese became the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams in the late 80s, where he taught the tenets of the Coryell offense to his wide receivers coach, Norv Turner. The offensive philosophy has been also called the "Coryell offense" or the "vertical offense".[1]. Besides Rivers, the Chargers featured a strong running game, starring Hall of Fame RB LaDainian Tomlinson. The passing game works off PA, pre-snap motion, and being able to keep the same personnel in formations that look the same but have multiple play options run out of them. Nagy wants to spread the field and run RPOs. Prominent coaches that use or used this scheme include Joe Gibbs, Norv Turner, Mike Martz, Bruce Arians (TB), Jason Garrett (NYG), and to a degree, Scott Turner (WAS). They ran 13 at the highest rate in the NFL (14%) and were 9th in running 12 personnel (26%). Run blocking utilizes multiple schemes (Zone, Gap, Duo). Mike Davis saw zone-blocking on around 45% of the plays last year in CAR. Engram is highly inefficient at TE, Rudolph fits more of the Garrett mold at TE making neither guy viable for upside. Personnel Preferences: Personnel usage was 94% 11 or 12 combos, with the Rams running the 4. Personnel Preferences: Personnel is usually 11 unless in short-yardage or. The West Coast Offense (WCO) was made popular by Bill Walsh and Joe Montana in San Francisco. Bears' TE target share from 2018 to 2020 went 18.1%, 12.2%, then 22.7% last year with Lazor at the controls. The skill positions had little turnover (Randall Cobb returns - trusted vet for Rodgers) and the group could be expected to produce similar numbers as last year. Taylor has "the RB1" upside if Mack is not ready to contribute (and chances increase if Wentz's foot injury forces him to miss time). Offseason indication is a lot of pre-snap motion, RPOs, and use the speed at WR to go vertical. Tevin Coleman was signed away from San Francisco and is familiar with the offense but did not look like there was much left in his legs last year. Providing another defender to help the strong safety opened up other holes. The Martz variant favored an elusive feature back who can catch the ball, such as Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk, over the power runners the Turner scheme prefers. Additional Notes:Passes are spread out to all positions in this offense making the WR group tough to rely on in FF. Can someone point me to a website or article that breaks down Mike Martz offensive philosophy from and X's and O's perspective? The 63-year-old Martz has been out of the league since a two-year stint as Bears offensive coordinator ended in 2011, with no real hints that he wanted back in. The Rams also became the first team to gain more than 20,000 yards of total offense in a 3-year stretch. Bill Parcels was one of the early adopters of this offense and one of the Parcels' tree branches was Bill Belichick who adopted the system and began to enhance it with Charlie Weis in the early 2000s and grew it even further with Josh McDaniels and the current Patriots teams. 1. [7] Coryell moved to the Chargers and reached the playoffs in four consecutive seasons that included three straight division titles (19791982). Will be interesting to see if Williams is heavily involved with Nagy calling plays, especially in the passing game with Cohen starting training camp on the PUP list.