... dunk, and the draw play on 3rd-and-medium. Scripting the first 15 plays of the game. Letting receivers run after the catch. Using the pass to set up the run.

All these traits, effortlessly blended together in the mind of one of the greatest offensive schemers in the history of football, Bill Walsh, transformed the 49ers' franchise from the laughing stock of the 1970s into the team of the decade in the 1980s.

Using principles that he had learned under Paul Brown and perfected on his own, Walsh evolved the way the NFL offense would be run for the next 30 years. Since the last of the "West Coast" minded coaches left San Francisco—St...

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