Re: 2006 Fantasy Football
Ahem…correction my friend. This famous west coast offense was actually devised in Ohio…
Brown also never has been given full credit for breaking the color barrier in modern pro sports when he signed two eventual Hall of Fame players, fullback Marion Motley](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=156) and lineman *Bill Willis](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=231), in 1946, a year before Jackie Robinson’s debut in major league baseball.*
“Whether they know it or not, nearly everyone in football has been affected by Paul Brown,” former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=185) once said. “His wealth of ideas changed the game.”
A good example is the so-called West Coast offense that has dominated the NFL for the past couple of decades. That moniker is a misnomer. It should be called the Ohio Offense because it is basically the same one that Brown designed and used when he coached the Browns and Bengals. Hall of Famer Otto Graham](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=77) used it to win seven league championships.
Brown brought it to Cincinnati and taught it to *Bill Walsh](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=224), one of his assistant coaches, who used the offense to win three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers and was wrongly credited, as he later admitted, for its origin.*
“I learned it from Paul Brown,” Walsh wrote in a book a few years ago.
http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=732
I do know about the west coast offense, and may I remind you that McNair is basically one year removed from his MVP season…dare I say hot.
MV, I dont give a rat’s ass about wannabes McNab and Culpepper. They get all the limelight because they play in media friendly place i.e east coast. Being a texas native, you are well aware of this bias…are’nt you (SI’s cover of NBA Finals…remember?). McNair has never run out of gas in the most important game of his life ala Mcnab in SB, neither did he puke in an AFC championship game …again like McNab. Culpepper, oh yeah big arm, big body but sadly nothing between the years.
I know you can talk the talk, we will see who ends up walking the walk. 