The Patriots need to get Wright offensively…

I know he is still learning the offense but every time Wright comes on the field, I feel like he makes a play. He has been targeted 4 times; he has 4 catches for 35 yards and 2 first downs. This is a dynamic player who caught 54 passes last season playing a new position as rookie with a QB who is currently a backup throwing him the football.

I would like to see us return to using the 12 personnel for at least 50% of the game, Brady was at his best in that system, and it gives him some bigger targets that do not need the ball to be perfectly thrown to catch it.

The Patriots current inability to leverage all their available players on offense is highly frustrating but I think it comes down to poor offensive line play not giving Brady enough time to go through his progressions.

We have a more talent offense than we fielded in 2001, but 2001 Brady got the ball to guys like Wiggins and Redmond when guys like Troy were covered.

fnordcircle said:

The Patriots current inability to leverage all their available players on offense is highly frustrating but I think it comes down to poor offensive line play not giving Brady enough time to go through his progressions.

We have a more talent offense than we fielded in 2001, but 2001 Brady got the ball to guys like Wiggins and Redmond when guys like Troy were covered.

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Its definitely Oline related, but more than that, it would help if the playcalling wasn't so completely predictable and vanilla. Watch how clever the routes that Denver runs are. And how it catches even the greatest defenses sleeping at times.

In 2007, we ran a very complicated but clever system, and Brady was able to get multiple targets to confuse the defense. At no point this season has any defense actually been caught perplexed by anything we've thrown at it.

Hael said:

Its definitely Oline related, but more than that, it would help if the playcalling wasn't so completely predictable and vanilla. Watch how clever the routes that Denver runs are. And how it catches even the greatest defenses sleeping at times.

In 2007, we ran a very complicated but clever system, and Brady was able to get multiple targets to confuse the defense. At no point this season has any defense actually been caught perplexed by anything we've thrown at it.

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With Welker and Moss accounting for over 50% of the receptions - as opposed to the 2003/2004 Super Bowl seasons when the ball was spread much more evenly, I don't think that by the end of the season defenses were surprised to see an offense that was so heavilly focused on those two players

Welker and Moss were simply making incredible catches regardless of how tightly covered they were - that catches up with you eventually and I'd say it did with the 2007 Patriots

Though that would still be a welcome change from a primarily Edelman focused offense (but today I did see them actually trying to spread the ball a bit more - possibly because Ds are so understandably keyed on Edelman)

I think we'd all like to see a more diverse offense - and a healthy running game (and of course better OL play) is a part of that as well

he does make plays

Even if Wright only knows 10 plays I think he might well be an upgrade over any WR not named Edelman.

he's learning the playbook? well, design some plays for him that cater to his strengths. they never do that in NE. mcdaniels should adjust to the players he has available.

Gronkowski123 said:

he's learning the playbook? well, design some plays for him that cater to his strengths. they never do that in NE. mcdaniels should adjust to the players he has available.

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That will never happen. How many sprint/stretch plays for Ridley today? Hell Brady almost fell getting to the spot on one of them, looked more like a broken play than something that should be drawn up, practised, and clearly worked into the days game plan...

You know who really needs to be played to his strengths?

I'll give you three guesses...

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No.






Bolden should ideally be doing this:

Gronkowski123 said:

he's learning the playbook? well, design some plays for him that cater to his strengths. they never do that in NE. mcdaniels should adjust to the players he has available.

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This is not how the offense is set up here in New England. If you are really interested in the details you can read up a pretty good article on Grantland about Erhardt-Perkins right [here].

I think straying from it to create some separate plays to cater to anyone could be a disaster (e.g. how do you adjust to presnap reads in custom plays and ensure everyone is on the same page). I would hope that he will be caught up until after our BYE and we can use him fully by then. If it is earlier.. great..

Gronkowski123 said:

he's learning the playbook? well, design some plays for him that cater to his strengths. they never do that in NE. mcdaniels should adjust to the players he has available.

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McDaniels did revise the playbook for Randy Moss. You do it for an elite receiver. You don't do it for a second year TE who may end up being very good, but is nowhere near elite.

What are they going to do? Taylor part of the offense for Wright, another part for Edelman, another part for Gronk, another part for Dobson, another part for LaFell, etc.?

i think someone said he played 5 snaps and had 1 rec for 20 yards so he is doing ok but i think people need to get the whole his the next Hernandez thing out of there head he is a nice #2 TE who will make plays all year but he is far from a star if he was a Hernandez type talent he would have been on the field a lot more then 5 snaps even if he dose not know the play book

patsfan-1982 said:

if he was a Hernandez type talent he would have been on the field a lot more then 5 snaps even if he dose not know the play book

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Ya he may not have some of the ability Hernandez has but I think Wright if he gets the playbook down and gets a chance he could do just as well as idiot did in this offense

Rob0729 said:

What are they going to do? Taylor part of the offense for Wright, another part for Edelman, another part for Gronk, another part for Dobson, another part for LaFell, etc.?

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Uh…yes.

woolster22 said:

Bolden should ideally be doing this:

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A little on the mean side but I agree with your not wanting to use bolden; with Ridley and Vareen on the roster, Bolden doesn't add any additional skills. And it pretty much signals we're going to run when he's on the field. And we don't need the 3rd rb to keep the first two fresh during the game -- as if the first two just split the snaps they won't be fatigued.

Bolden should only be playing during garbage time to give him some reps to develop and to prevent any bad injuries from the first two.

I think we've gone running back by committee of 3-4 for a long time now, but now we have two good to very good running backs with different skills, and we should make use of them instead of trying to give the 3rd/4th options a chance.

every time the ball is thrown to him, it seems he makes a play. I would play him more, especially in the red-zone. cant hurt to have another big receiver out there.

captain stone said:

Uh…yes.

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I would love to hear the complaining and McDaniels bashing on this board if he started to design the game plan with specific packages for each receiver. You can't make a cohesive gameplan by doing that.

I'd like to see him get the ball more too, but people people people, sometimes in the NFL, these players have great stats and it's the product of simply being on a bad team. Like Marv Cook on the Patriots.

We also tend to remember our championship teams with fondness. Brady passing to Wiggins and Redmond is not a recipe for anything. They happened to be there at crucial times, but otherwise that offense was stagnant and these two players in particular did very little, even less than Vereen and Gronk are doing for us now.

upstater1 said:

I'd like to see him get the ball more too, but people people people, sometimes in the NFL, these players have great stats and it's the product of simply being on a bad team. Like Marv Cook on the Patriots.

We also tend to remember our championship teams with fondness. Brady passing to Wiggins and Redmond is not a recipe for anything. They happened to be there at crucial times, but otherwise that offense was stagnant and these two players in particular did very little, even less than Vereen and Gronk are doing for us now.

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IDK, I think Wright has caught all of his targets. His problem has been lack of opportunities thus far (he is being used sparingly). I think his opportunities will increase if and when the o-line stabilizes a bit and they don't have to use a lot of six o-linemen and he gets more up to speed with the offense.

Rob0729 said:

I would love to hear the complaining and McDaniels bashing on this board if he started to design the game plan with specific packages for each receiver. You can't make a cohesive gameplan by doing that.

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Isnt that exactly what most teams do? Create plays for their players to best exploit their talents?

The Patriots have tons of Edelman plays and you know it.