Aaron Rodgers now..

[KYPack]

Walsh learned from Gillman when Gillman hired him with the Oakland Raiders.

Gillman never hired Walsh. Gillman never worked for the Raiders.

Sid Gillman
1955-1959..... NFL Los Angeles Rams
1960............. AFL Los Angeles Chargers
1961-1969..... AFL San Diego Chargers
1970-1971..... NFL San Diego Chargers
1973-1974..... NFL Houston Oilers

Bill Walsh
Oakland Raiders (1966) (Running back coach)
Cincinnati Bengals (1968–1975) (Assistant coach)
San Diego Chargers (1976) (Offensive coordinator)
Stanford Cardinal (1977–1978) (Head Coach)
San Francisco 49ers (1979–1988) (Head coach)

One thing I did not notice, Walsh was offensive coordinator for the Chargers in '76. SD head coach? Tommy Prothro.

Prothro learned the Single Wing offense from Red Sanders at Vanderbilt and UCLA.

Sid Gillman is the father of the WCO. When Gillman began his career as a HC at Miami U (O) & U cincy, he patterned his passing offense around the plays and patterns run by the Don Hutson Green Bay Packers offense. Gillman's father ran theaters. Sid got all the film available on Lambeau's passing offense and patterned his sophisticated passing offense around Hutson's "back to the future" passing system. Thus, Hutson and Lambeau are the Grandfathers of the WCO.

There is a funny "hole" in Walsh's coaching resume. In 1967, he was HC of the San Jose Apache's of the Continental league. He often dropped this from his coaching history as he wasn't exactly proud of that gig.

[get louder at lambeau]

Thought I'd plop this one in here. Aaron Rodgers, 12/3/09, on the OL and playcalling-

* On whether the offensive line has improved in recent weeks: "I think so. I think they’ve been doing a good job. I like the direction we’ve gone with the play-calling the last couple weeks, and I feel like it’s really allowed those guys to feel confident in the protection scheme. … When I’m getting it out quick, those guys feel good about the protection called, I think those guys are going to win a very high percentage of their one-on-one battles when they feel confident in the protection schemes."

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/insider/index.shtml

[Sparkey]

Everyone is ignoring the constant changes at center. The center was the main person making blitz calls and that position was constantly in flux. I think it was the Dallas game where MM let Rodgers start making blocking assignment calls as well as the center. I tend to think that has helped as well.

Interesting. I remember AR getting more responsibility but I didn't hear the specifics of what that responsibility was. Do you remember where you heard this?

Though Aaron Rodgers didn’t have one of his more productive games on Sunday, coach Mike McCarthy said he gave his quarterback more responsibility at the line of scrimmage than he ever has in an effort to help the Packers’ problems in pass protection

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20091115/PKR01/91115063/Green-Bay-Packers-give-QB-Aaron-Rodgers-more-responsibility

“Aaron had a lot on his plate,” McCarthy said. “I told him earlier in the week, this was the most comprehensive game plan I think we’ve ever put on the quarterback. I’m not trying to dramatize. You (make) adjustments as much as we did, as far as protections, different calls, we did some new things this week, there wasn’t a lot of time to get things repped. There was a lot of adjustments carried over to Aaron’s responsibility. So from a management standpoint, I thought he did a very good job.”