RIP Don Coryell

R.I.P. coach Coryell . Amazing offensive mind , the Card's were a pain in the ass during the mid '70's < sorry Mel Gray , you did not make that td catch > , The SD Chargers had one of the best offenses in NFL history from '78-'82 . R.I.P.

I believe 3 of the top 5 offenses (see #5) are due to Coryell's influence:

ESPN.com - Page2 - Best NFL offense of all-time (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/nfl/offenses/best.html)

was definitely going to mention the greatest show on turf

R I P, great football mind.

R.I.P. m8

RIP Don... I know that guy was very instrumental with Joe Gibbs back in the day.

Man that sucks. I know Gibss was lobbying for him to get in the HOF. Would've been nice to see him get in before he passed. He was way ahead of his time. RIP.

Let's hope the HOF Committee will eventually consider a posthumous enshrinement. Would be a great way to honor a man who brought so much to the game.

R.I.P. You will be missed

This is a huge loss. In kinda putting it into perspective, due to his innovativeness, he kinda changed football al together and those practices are still being used. This is like seeing Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, or George S. Patton dying. Innovators of their time and changed warfare.

I always hated the fact that the WCO was attributed to Bill Walsh when technically his system was discovered in Cleveland Ohio which to me is an East Coast offense. Coryell being in Cali when discovered to me is technically a WCO. We ran it or a version with Gibbs and pretty much ever since. It wasn't until good ole Zorn have we started for the first time to use what everyone else wants to call the WCO.

Thanks for the great tree of Coach's--Skinsfan nn

What a great man.....RIP
He and Fouts in the day were.....scary

Rembering Don Coryell By Way Of Joe Gibbs (http://blog.redskins.com/2010/07/02/rembering-don-coryell-by-way-of-joe-gibbs/)

D.C. Sports Bog - Joe Gibbs and Don Coryell (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/07/joe_gibbs_and_don_coryell.html)