How long / disruptive will a transition to West Coast Offense Be?

Cautiously optimistic about the Philbin Hire. I like that he's offense focused and will probably leave our D which is coming on great, largely intact. That said, surely he will want a transition to a timing / West Coast style O. My question is how long will that take? how painful a transition is it likely to be? Surely we shouldn't get carried away expecting fireworks from day one. Any recent examples in the NFL of teams transitioning to a WCO?

Philbin, the Dolphins and transition to the west Coast Offense

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by Patssuck456 on Jan 22, 2012 12:22 PM EST reply actions

This is what we need to be running. Sorta like the days of Marino, but add a Reggie Bush and a bruising back, especially for early in the season. You play physical ith a bit of speed. We not only have plenty of players that fit that, but provided someone starts drafting guys from Florida teams we have a steady stream of speedy powerful players to play this way. If you think about it, this is how we dominate in high school and college football. I see us running slants more often.. especially when the DB is playing off the WR…

We had [Brady] down… but we didn’t kick him. We helped him up and gave him a PowerPuff Girls band-aid for his knee. What exactly did you expect would happen when we did that?

by Jason Scott_90 on Jan 23, 2012 12:13 AM EST up reply actions

The Phins switched from OCs last year and had 2 different QBs start for them.

I think if they can find a starting QB that can stay healthy the switch shoudn’t be much of a problem. Heck they went through more last year 2 new RBs 2 starting QBs and a new offense, not to mention quite a few OL combos. I think they’ll be fine.

by Laces out on Jan 22, 2012 12:24 PM EST reply actions

Having a full off season will also help.

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by texascowpunk on Jan 22, 2012 1:05 PM EST up reply actions

West coast offense is 90% live or die on QB play

If we get flynn who has been learning it for 5 years we will be fine

by GC002 on Jan 22, 2012 12:46 PM EST reply actions

in the conference

He said he didn’t even really know what west coast offense was lol he sounds like the type that rather than try to empliment a style and try to find player to fit it, will tailor the offense to fit the players best abillities

by AcolyteofRa on Jan 22, 2012 12:58 PM EST via mobile reply actions

^ This

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by PhinsAllDay on Jan 22, 2012 1:22 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

True....

Thats my impression, that first he wants to look players over and see where there talents lie, before deciding on what type of offense.

by tpl on Jan 22, 2012 1:23 PM EST up reply actions

Well that is what he said. :)

will tailor the offense to fit the players best abillities

Here is an exact quote:

What you’re going to learn from me is that I believe in fundamentals, execution, discipline are primary, schemes are secondary.

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by Agent J 78 on Jan 22, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions

encouraging! : )

by Armchair QB on Jan 22, 2012 1:31 PM EST reply actions

Shouldn't be too bad with the right quarterback

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As long as we have a QB that fits these traits(we don’t right now), we’ll be in good shape.

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by The Earl on Jan 22, 2012 7:41 PM EST reply actions

Running a different offense is not at all like running a different defense...

The thing about offense is you know exactly what you are doing, while defense has to react to what the offense is doing. You have talented guys on offense then it is just about getting them into a position where they can make a play. That doesn’t change because you run a couple of slants. I personally think that BM can be lethal running a slant. I can’t think of a single player on our team that wouldn’t be made better by the occasional slant added to the route tree.

We had [Brady] down… but we didn’t kick him. We helped him up and gave him a PowerPuff Girls band-aid for his knee. What exactly did you expect would happen when we did that?

by Jason Scott_90 on Jan 22, 2012 10:13 PM EST reply actions

Me either

I personally think that BM can be lethal running a slant. I can’t think of a single player on our team that wouldn’t be made better by the occasional slant added to the route tree.

In the first game against the Pats Reggie ran a slant for a 17 yard gain (I think) and I don’t recall him running much more after that. Reggie played well but he is another person that wasn’t utilized the best.

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by Agent J 78 on Jan 22, 2012 11:42 PM EST up reply actions