Josh McDaniels would not waste his time with Tom Brady.
But the Patriots ‘official coordinator pointed out Friday that these times Brady was not at his disposal, at the moment very valuable, because the Patriots’ offensive is doing his pivot to Brady.
“I’m grateful for the experiences I had when I did not have Tom,” McDaniels said at a video conference. ‘Believe me, no one was happier to have him there when he was out there all those years, I was happy to train him.
“But I would say I have some experience with the Matt Cassel year (in 2008), that I learned a lot about how to adapt to someone else’s strengths. We had to play that stretch of four (in 2016) with Jacoby (Brissett) and Jimmy (Garoppolo), I thought that was helpful.And I was away for three years.So really try to adapt … it does not change your system, it adjusts your system to the talents and strengths of your players. ‘
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How the Patriots’ offense will change now that Brady’s is gone is a dominant topic of discussion this offseason. The strength of the six-time Super Bowl winners is well-documented and difficult to replicate – absurd accuracy, poise, pocket presence and the ability to decipher and manipulate defenses for fun. Part of the reason they are difficult to replicate is that it took him decades of monastic dedication to get to where he was. Nobody has time for that.
So, after a few decades of building a tower out of wooden blocks, the blocks are demolished and scattered. And McDaniels is starting to rebuild. The same blocks. Different view structure.
“(We have to) adapt the crime to the players we have,” McDaniels said. ‘That, again, you have to tell yourself more and more,’ I really want us to be good here? Or are we okay with this? There’s a nice line between pushing really hard to work on something that you just do not see much progress in vs. ‘Hey, you know what, we’re much better at A, B and C than we are D, E and F, why do we not do A, B and C anymore? “I think we as staff have really had a lot of conversations about that kind of thing. ”
McDaniels has discussed in recent seasons how the development of a crime is a trial and error process. The difference this year is that there is no chance for the ‘trial part’. No common practices. No preseason games. Of course, no OTAs or minicamps.
“We can not yet make statements about what we are still good at because we have not practiced,” McDaniels acknowledged. “I think everyone is taking turns, wanting to go there and make some decisions about some things we want to try to get good at, and if we just do not make much progress, then we just have to shift gears. and to go in another direction.
‘But I’ll pinch my experience and then I’ll apply to the staff, coach Belichick, just to, (say),’ Let’s really be with ourselves. Yes, we used to be good at that. We do not make it so hot, so let’s just scrape it now and move it in another direction. ”
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Sure, a direction in which they will move will likely be driven by the mobility of who the starting quarterback is, Jarrett Stidham or Cam Newton.
McDaniels pointed out that a player with the size, power and mobility of Newton changes things.
“It’s certainly not something I’m used to using a lot, but you’re using some of the strengths of your players on the field that you can use, to try to move the ball and score points,” he said. he said. “That’s what that means relative to mobility at the QB position, size and power, speed, length, height with receivers … you go through the same thing many different times.”
Newton, McDaniels said, is the same as any other player who brings a unique talent.
‘I remember when you got a new receiver group … our receivers changed a lot in terms of some of them were bigger … Randy Moss was a bigger boy and then we had some smaller boys like Wes Welker and Danny Amendola , and then you have tight ends that are faster right-handed players and then you have guys like Gronk and those kinds of players, ‘he pointed out.
‘No matter what the position is, I think you’re trying to use their strengths to make them good plays and if that’s something we can figure out how to do well and do comfortably and feel like we can get the ball rolling. move and be productive then we will work as staff to figure out how that works best, and try to use it when we can. ”
In other words, if you have a player with a superpower – Moss’ speed, Welker’s speed, Gronk’s size, Brady’s brains, Newton’s power – you are tapping into that superpower. ASAFP.
