Peyton Manning videotaped making 35+ yard throws at Duke University

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

The Kyle Shanahan offense is a lot more vertical than it seems to be given credit for. It's not really a "sideline to sideline" west coast offense

Truth.

Kyle uses the bunch formation a lot, which is an old WCO trick, but outside of the steady diet of Shanahan bootlegs (which seem more like an odd bastadization of the Mike Shanahan playbook than an offensive staple), and those bunch formations, Kyle's offense is much closer to an old school Al Davis offense built off of deep drops and lots play action and max protection.

There just isn't much of a west coast element in the Redskins offense.

And I'd add one observation I made in re-watching the 2009 and 2011 seasons over the last two weeks: the Redskins are far more likely to use running plays which you would call man to man blocking schemes under Kyle Shanahan than they were under Jim Zorn/Sherm Smith/Sherm Lewis.