At this point in football there is more recycling, more re-purposing being done than innovation when it comes to play designs, concepts and style of play. So expecting a new coaching staff to transform a team into an offensive juggernaut overnight isn’t realistic.
That’s why Year One of Mike McDaniel’s tenure as the Miami Dolphins’ new head coach, and it’s offensive play-caller, will be more about marrying the players and their skill sets to his West Coast offensive scheme than it will be innovation.
And his task of building and installing a new offense likely won’t be as hard as it might seem considering the West Coast offense he’s learned over the years is so intertwined in the NFL’s bloodstreams that the style of play Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh created, and made legendary is viewed as more a language than a style.
