grayman

I'm pretty sure the point of installing the West Coast offense was to plan for a similar situation to last year. Because Vick's "playbook" consists of one play, when he got hurt for an extended period last year no one on the offense knew any plays and they had to hurriedly install a brand new offense in a very short time. I think that both Johnson and Kittner got bad raps last year because they were playing behind a line that is designed not to block and with an offense that had just gotten a brand new playbook only a couple weeks before. I'm not saying those guys are great, but very few traditional pocket qb's could suceed in the Falcons' system from last year.
When Mora came in, he realized that the way Vick plays will get him hurt, they should plan for similar situations. They tried to get another scrambling backup and couldn't (is Seneca Wallace still 3rd string on Seattle?). They put in the West Coast offense so that when Vick gets hurt and Schaub has to come into games, the offense might actually be able to run some plays. That's the real reason Vick played so little in the preseason. You don't need to practice "You guys run upfield and if I happen to notice that you are open in the 2 seconds before I run the ball myself, I might try to throw it to you." The Falcons have no intention of teaching Vick any kind of offense because he is what he is: a great athlete who will make plays on his own until an injury seriously degrades his athleticism or ends his career. They put in the new offense for when he gets hurt.

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