Even at the Highest Level, Great Offenses Have a North Star
Why Sean McVay’s offense keeps evolving without losing its identity.
Even at the highest levels of football, great offensive systems still come down to one thing.
You need a North Star.
One idea that the entire offense points back to.
One foundation that doesn’t change, even as the answers around it do.
Few coaches illustrate this better than Sean McVay.
McVay’s North Star: Wide Zone
It’s no secret that Sean McVay, like the rest of the Shanahan tree, builds his offense off Wide Zone.
That foundation goes all the way back to Mike Shanahan and Alex Gibbs with the late-90s Broncos. Since then, that same core idea has carried forward. Adapted, refined, and re-packaged by coaches like Kyle Shanahan, Matt LaFleur, and McVay himself.
They’re all running the same North Star, but they’re not all running it the same way.
