We are looking for a modern version of Bill Walsh and his legacy.

"I think the creative and innovative coaches are the ones who are introspective; ones who like to develop their ideas; ones who take a look at all the equations and want to find the right answers."--Bill F'ing Walsh.

In honor of the "Genius", I submit to you another excellent Walsh:



If you are not familiar with Bill, just take a gander: http://www.profootballhof.com/players/bill-walsh/biography/

Come to think of it, if you ain't familiar with him...



There is no doubt that Coach Walsh was responsible for all five of our championships, the careers of two of the greatest QBs of all time (one of which became the GOAT), the greatest WR of all time, and certainly aided in several other WCO QBs greatness by their presence in his system. John Elway especially owes Bill Walsh and T. Davis for his two titles. HORSE FACED b*****d. Sorry. But I am 49er fan, f**k sympathy for the enemy. Respect, sure. Anything else is weakness.



Anyway, we have been looking for his replacement for a long time. Really, we have. Seifert won two titles, but it was Bill's system--this doesn't mean he didn't earn it; he did. Mooch was good, but another WCO disciple. Harbs, who promised a return to Walsh, was highly successful, but not b/c he followed the "Genius" and failed to meet the grade in the Super Bowl. I have swung all over the place on our hires. I want a return to the WCO, but then I am willing to embrace change because I do not believe you have to have the WCO to win a Super Bowl.

The question that I am wrestling with is "how do we get back?" Not just to winning a Super Bowl, but multiple championships. Don't tell me we can't do it, either. We all have challenges. The Niners have them too. York needs to get focused, Baalke needs to get his head out of his ass and draft for the future and today. And the coach needs to have the vision for a new form of offense that carries us into the future. It must be trans-formative; it has to be able to evolve over time. The coach must also have an eye for talent. And he must be prepared to let that talent walk when it is time. These were the traits that Walsh had as our coach. And what he built with us was part of his legacy. Here is the rest of it:




Out of the current crop, who has the best chance to do the above? Because like it or not, it is this that we seek.













He was Bill Walsh.

The greatest football mind ever. Thanks for posting.

Please let history repeat itself

I don't think I'm exaggerating in saying that I mention Bill Walsh or the WCO in 90%+ of my post For that I offer no apologies

No, Trent Balkie is a Bill Parcels guy, so we are looking for the exact opposite of a Bill Walsh guy.

Originally posted by GolittaCamper:
No, Trent Balkie is a Bill Parcels guy, so we are looking for the exact opposite of a Bill Walsh guy.

Exactly, and that's on Yorks.

Some Bill Walsh Play design Porn



Here's a good one.

Sprint right option of course

An example of the triangle stretch (replay view of his staple Z-in play)

Last play he ever called in the NFL

Originally posted by GolittaCamper:
No, Trent Balkie is a Bill Parcels guy, so we are looking for the exact opposite of a Bill Walsh guy.

The thought of Baalke and Parcells in a 49ers forum is absolutely Apalling much less the dude runs the 49ers trying to turn them into the Mediocre New York Jets West

"I think the creative and innovative coaches are the ones who are introspective; ones who like to develop their ideas; ones who take a look at all the equations and want to find the right answers."--Bill F'ing Walsh.

Out of all the candidates out there........I'd probably say Chip Kelly is the closest to fit that paradigm.

For more than a decade, he shared a dingy office in the basement with another coach; the whiteboard behind his desk where he diagrammed plays remains. Then, a decade ago, Chip took his ideas west, to Oregon, and quickly transformed a so-so college program into a national power.

A nobody. A guy who wasn't even the head coach in Durham is now shifting the landscape of pro football as well, in just his third season coaching the Eagles.

On first blush, he's like some genius kid who starts tinkering with electronics in a garage when he's still in junior high and suddenly pops up a dozen years later as the head of a huge computer company. But no — computer geeks toil virgin ground, open to the innovative. Football is the opposite. Football has rules and traditions and the way things have always been done and the way they must continue to be done. In football, you pay your dues and build on the past.

Chip Kelly rejects all that. "This is the way we've always done it" — he has formally jettisoned that sentiment from his coaches' brains.

It's clear, for example, that Chip Kelly doesn't give a rat's ass what other people think of him. Which some people find quite discombobulating. An NFL insider who spent hours with Kelly over dinner a few years ago describes a surreal divide: Chip has a brilliant football mind and can talk endlessly about the game — at warp speed, the way he always talks — but doesn't seem to be there with you in the moments that aren't about football. He won't make eye contact. He seems to be daydreaming, and you sit there wondering what he's really thinking. Usually, of course, getting to know someone is a combination of what he's saying and how he feels to you, his body language, the little interjected moments of, say, "How's your steak?" Chip seems devoid of those moments. He shares almost nothing of himself. He doesn't ask questions. He doesn't seem normal, says the NFL guy, who was left, after spending several hours with Kelly, with the most basic fear:

Doesn't Chip like me?

"I think he leads most of his life thinking solely about the game. And he doesn't suffer fools." I ask Scarano if he likes Chip. "Oh, yeah. Chip is Chip, look at it that way. All coaches are alphas. Chip is double alpha. He's not going to crack wise, not make small talk all the time. But in moments when he's relaxed, he's a fun guy to be with. He doesn't show it to everybody."

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/chip-kelly-eagles/




I see a couple that can be pretty good HC's, Chip is the only one that I think has upper-echelon HC potential, on the other hand he might be the guy most likely to completely flame out and vanish from the NFL.

Getting the Backs involved.


Here is s good view of the backs crossing.

1984 - "Bingo Cross"

Play art from the 1982 niners playbook.

Trick play in SB16

SB19 goodness