West Coast Offense

The West Coast Offense is a football strategy (in American football) based on Paul Brown's Cleveland and Cincinatti offensive schemes and later associated primarily with the great former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh.

Characteristics of the West Coast Offense

Although different teams have different variations of it, each team employing a West Coast offensive system has certain plays that every single one of them run over and over again.

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• The three-step quick slant--a staple of the West Coast Offense.
• Agile running plays where the offensive linemen can move in space, such as sweeps, counters, and traps.
• Screen passes.
• Quick, short passes to running backs in the flats (as a substitution for running plays)
• Rollouts or sprint-outs with the quarterback.
• A decent amount of play action passes.