Football 101: Deep Shots with the Air Coryell Offense

It was the spread offense before the spread offense, it had the ultimate move tight end before the move tight end, it was the West Coast Offense on steroids. It was known as the "Air Coryell," a high-flying, breathtaking offense that utilized the width of the field and shredded defenses vertically with supremely talented pass catchers.  

Former San Diego Chargers head coach Don Coryell, a dyslexic and quirky gentleman, was just like his peers at one point in his coaching career, running a run-heavy, Stone Age offense that kept his team in ball games but didn't do enough to win the big ones, so he did something many coaches don't do: He scrapped ...

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