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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
Boy are you ever right. I mean think of the audacity of some of these know it all coaches that think they know something the rest of the league isn't doing. Those morans with the "West Coast" offense I mean WTF was that? And the Forward pass? Stupid. If you don't run up the middle you aren't playing football thats arena football.
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Not to defend Bob, but this whole "Bill Walsh was an innovative genius" is utter bullshit.
He simply took the short passing game of Sid Gillman's offense and made it the base offense for the 9ers, and Hank Stram's "offense of the 70s" was essentially the same offense, with the added wrinkle of the moving pocket.
Sid Gillman was the last true innovator in the NFL.