The Mastermind of the 'Air Coryell' offense changed the way the game was played on both sides of the ball
SAN DIEGO — Todd Tobias is a former Chargers historian, who has researched and written all about the Chargers of the American Football League, as well as the AFL as a whole. In 2006, he was encouraged to write a book about the Chargers during the Don Coryell days."For whatever reason, the Chargers didn't win a Super Bowl, but that time period people really remember and remember it very very fondly," says Tobias.
"Coryell was able to influence a passing game in ways that it hadn't been done before. He would throw it and throw it deep, because he had the tools to do it with. He had the strong arm of Dan Fouts, as well as a number of acrobatic receivers like John Jefferson and Wes Chandler. He used the tight end in ways that had never been used before," Tobias says.
"He would start to tell me about a player that he had to release, and that he didn't want to, but it came from higher up. He would almost break down and start crying at that point, some 30 years after the fact," says Tobias."I think that was really it, just how much this person was absolutely loved."
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