It has often been said by many that there are three basic offensive schemes: the West Coast offense, the Erhardt-Perkins offense, and the Air Coryell offense. The reality is that in today’s NFL, every offense has elements of these three schemes incorporated into their playbooks, but there are distinct differences in verbiage and philosophy between the three. The Air Coryell is named so because of Don Coryell, who became the first head coach to ever win over 100 games at both the college and professional level.


Noting in here says anything about one being more simple than the others.