Some very good posts
Red. Very glad to see another
Mike Leach fan, especially considering your team faced him for a number of years. My two favorite offenses are the
Air Raid and
Run & Shoot. Both have a small number of plays and both have short terminology.
Like the example you gave;
Blue Right 6 - Y Shallow or in the
R&S an example play call is
Rip 60 Go. These shorter play calls get the offense in, and out, of the huddle quicker and to the line where the QB has time to read the defense.
One thing I've never liked about certain
West Coast offenses is that the terminology is SO lengthy. I've heard and seen many
West Coast plays/playbooks and one play is damn near a paragraph long, which just takes so much time.
Anyway... nice to see someone else who's into the strategy of the game. Sadly,
EA will never get these aspects correct because it would require them to do a lot more work, but everything you've said is right on and many of the things that relate to the game are things many of us have been asking for for years.