Belichick called it a 'streamlined' system that will help players and coaches who haven't been around for the better part of the last two decades as Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady were. They're turning things over. Paring down. Simplifying.
They weren't necessarily a thing of beauty. Which -- one padded practice into camp, with a new coaching staff and a new scheme -- should probably be expected. There was one two-play sequence that probably illustrated their mixed-bag results with the new focus on outside zone, with both plays featuring Stevenson.
Instead of Jones giving the ball to Stevenson, as it appeared the QB wanted to, Stevenson immediately ran a route into the flat. But he was covered easily by Josh Uche, and Mack Wilson was bearing down on Jones. Eventually, Jones fired the ball into the turf on what looked like a broken play from the jump.
But the play-action game that functions off of those runs, because they force defenses to flow to one side of the field, can be lethal. Sean McVay has put his own spin on it in Los Angeles. Matt LaFleur took it to Tennessee and then Green Bay, where Hall-of-Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers has experienced a career revival and won back-to-back MVP awards. Arthur Smith, using some of what he gleaned from LaFleur, helped Ryan Tannehill have a career year for the Titans in 2019 and parlayed a couple of wildly-productive play-action seasons into a head-coaching opportunity in Atlanta.
This scheme would also qualify as one that should maximize the talents of two of their most highly-paid players on that side of the ball: their tight ends. "When you roll out ," the coach explained,"you have four options -- one, two, three, four -- that are there almost regardless of the coverage. You're only reading half the field, and you're going top-down: There's a deep element, a 10-to-12-yard intermediate element and someone in the flat. If it's open, throw it."
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