and just to ad a bit on that, as i said, the shotgun is used depending on the play called and defense their expecting. it is also put in to at times to help slow down blitzes and give qb more time to read. or at times, lack of personel.
DAN MARINO: lived off the gun. they couldnt run the ball to save their souls and used a lot of spread formations giving dan more time to read and pic his options. fundamental. with no run game to rely on, they threw the ball A LOT and dan loved the shotgun to run his pass happy offense.
AARON RODGERS: NOT much running game in 2011. he finds himself in the same situation as danny did for most of his career, having to throw out to spread sets with multiple wrs do to lack of a run game.
but even in the gun, its some what of an art. this year, matt ryan was handed the shotgun offense. didnt suit him. he responded with a bad year. they were hoping the gun would help get his sack totals down but he didnt prove to have the defensive read skills you need to be succesfull with it.
THE WCO when run in its true form is a run and pass BALANCE offense. as with any offense when you get carried away with one or the other in pass or run, you become one dimentional and the good teams stop you as the pack found out against the giants. the succesfull wco teams were SUPER BALANCED with run and pass, they could do either very well when called upon to do it.
wco is predicated to set up big runs on sweeps and draw plays. the wco is based off UNDER CENTER because 98% of the time when your in shotgun, its a pass, there are only so many run plays out of the gun and most are eliminated by down and distance.
thats why joe montana was predominantly under center as was steve young. being under center and having a big time rb are the KEYS to a SUCCESFUL wco. wco is designed to keep defenses guessing. if your in the gun to much, not much to guess!!
i can promise you, the pack will have a better rb this year and run the ball more and rodgers will not be in the gun as much.
look at the time sherman ran the offense in greenbay and the run game they had to go with their passing attack. they ran the ball real well, something rodgers does not have the luxery of.
again, it was a good try, but the wco IS based out of under center and sherman and philbin have a strong run game already in place with reggie and they wont be a shotgun, throw at all costs team with the qb in the gun 80% of the time.
and i will bet you ANYTHING, you name it, that miami wont be going after rg3.