Ask a Redskins quarterback or receiver after the first practice of Jim Zorn's first minicamp on May 2 to outline the differences in Zorn's offense from those of Joe Gibbs or associate coach Al Saunders, and you might get wide-ranging answers.

"There's a lot to this offense, but you can grab it quick," said receiver Santana Moss. "It's not brain-wrecking or nothing like that. Not saying that our other one was brain-wrecking, but for a new offense, with the high power they play at in their offense, you kinda expect to get a lot of 'Oh man!' It pretty much lets you know what to do and when to do it. You make the rest happen."

However, receiver Antwaan Randle El said the biggest difference is that the players can improvise in Zorn's West Coast scheme.

"It's almost like you're free," Randle El said. "You've got a lot of options. You run to get open. The quarterback plays off you. It's not the quarterback drops back and throws to that one spot. He's waiting for you. Once we get that down ... run that route time and time again and [quarterback Jason Campbell] seeing it."

Campbell said that since he, Moss and Randle El have started just 14 games as a trio, they need to work on their chemistry as well on the nuances of the offense.

That idea was complicated by Randle El's arthroscopic knee surgery on May 6 and the hamstring the quarterback strained the next day. However, both could be back when the Redskins resume organized team activities on June 2.

"It's not a real hard offense to learn, but there (are) a lot of key things you have to keep in mind as far as technique-wise, reading coverages and getting the ball out of your hands fast," Campbell said. "In this offense, the quarterback has more hands-on control. It comes with being on the same page. That's going to take time after practice and time away from the coaching staff as far as us communicating with each other and finding out what reads we see on different coverages, what are his adjustments and what are my adjustments so we can all be on the same page."

According to Randle El, that page turns faster than in the past.

"(The offense is) up-tempo," he said. "(Coach Zorn) wants you to get up to the ball and get moving."

Zorn's early evaluation of the transition to his offense was positive.

"There was a pattern where Jason looked to one side and it was covered and then he looked over the middle, it was covered and then he turned all the way around and hit the back coming out the other side," Zorn said. "Those are the kinds of things that you put in on the board ... and then you hope it gets executed out here. That's when you know that the playbook, all the talk ... connects with the player."

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