Cal Football Offense Film Review: Scripting the First 15

How the Cal Offense Tests The Defense

The idea of scripting plays began with Bill Walsh who always set out to script the first 15 plays of each Niner game. He called the concept “First 15”:

From Sam Farmer’s QnA

Cohn said Walsh’s practice of scripting plays evolved from the first five, to first 10, and finally First 15, and the reason for its doing so was “purely diagnostic.”

“He would test th…