Why isn't the Shanahan system even MORE popular?

Who isn't and isn't a success playing quarterback in the NFL seems to follow a particular pattern...

I’m going to throw the names of a few quarterbacks out there for you.

Jared Goff, Jimmy Garappolo, Brock Purdy, Tua Tagovailoa, Jordan Love, CJ Stroud.

All young guys that had real success on the initial teams that drafted them within the lifespan of their first contract. What do they have in common?

To revisit my thesis from the other week about trying to draft franchise “messiahs,” all of these guys were drafted into a context where the offense was built around the wide zone run game system popularized by Kyle Shanahan’s pop, Mike.

I decided to revisit this after believing fairly firmly that CJ Stroud was probably as likely to bust as any other early round draft pick of recent years based on his unimpressive (to me) time at Ohio State. Stroud thus far in his career is regarded as being far from a bust after taking the Houston Texans to the second round of the playoffs in his rookie season. I finally took a look at his day against the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the playoffs and I found a lot of stuff that looked like what I wasn’t really impressed with at Ohio State.

Nevertheless, the Texans were 10-7 and made the second round of the playoffs, so who cares how right I was or wasn’t? It’s working pretty well isn’t it? Which begs the question, why is this working so well and why isn’t it working for more franchises?

It is because of Stroud? Or the system and context?