This is not your grandfather’s offense or your mother’s offense or your uncle’s offense or even your offense. Those days are numbered.
But maybe it’s not all that different. Maybe it is just next of kin.
Bengals offensive coordinator Bill Lazor, ushering in a new hybrid scheme, has seized his players’ ears in the first week of off-season workouts as he outlines the changes. His introduction of the number system that is mostly associated with the Air Coryell scheme to an offense that caters to the quarterback in the finest word-based West Coast tradition finds Lazor trying to marry pro football’s two major offensive programs of the last 50 years.