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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 874224" data-attributes="member: 12283">I see it less as a movement towards a "run first" attack and more of a movement towards a style of offense that takes advantage of defensive personnel weaknesses. The 49ers offense doesn't work simply because they run a lot. It works because run and pass are tied together so efficiently and seamlessly (in terms of personnel, formation, and play design) that defenses can't be "right" in terms of defensive personnel. They can throw efficiently out of personnel formations that traditionally signal run (i.e. 21, 12, 22, 13), but if you go light (nickel, dime) to handle that, they can obviously also run really effectively out of them too. It clearly works extraordinarily well if you pull it off. That's what LaFleur was hired to do, that seems to be one of the main points of this year's draft, and we will see if he can get the job done. But the worst idea, in my opinion, would be for LaFleur to try and be someone he's not and coach an offense that isn't his. If he can't make this work, then he just needs to be replaced. He's never going to be and Andy Reid disciple.</blockquote>

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