Article About the Evolution of the Shanahan System and What Makes it Work

St. Widge said
I thought this quote from the article was a good explanation of the general concept of the offensive system:

"Everything is on the table. Because the keystone of the 49ers offense isn’t any one thing. The keystone of the 49ers offense is that you think it’s one thing, and it turns out it’s something else. It’s putting a fullback on the field to make you think run, so that they can pass. It’s bringing wide receivers tight to the formation, so you think of out-breaking routes, so they can run in-breaking routes. It’s motioning to a formation that you don’t think is empty, but actually is. The keystone of the 49ers offense is your perpetual wrongness. Shanahan better. Skill issue."

Again, things I was screaming for Pete to do.

Pass out of running formations on running downs, run out of passing formations on passing downs, then run PA off both and just keep defenses guessing. Once you start adding motion etc on top of all that it keeps defense on its heels.

I just found another important blurb and I'm so glad for it.

To run wide zone well, the quarterback needs to be under center

I absolutely detested the fact that we put Carr in the gun so god damned much. He doesn't process like that and isn't that type of point guard QB that can just pick teams apart from the Gun like Drew was. He's a better arm talent though and absolutely requires the help of a run game to be his most effective. Not saying the gun needs to disappear but we didn't run much PA from it either. When we did late in the season we had some success both in run and pass game.