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Greg Bedard has a great profile piece on new Brown's head coach Mike Pettine. Bedard talked with him mostly on schemes and has some interesting notes throughout. Most notably from a Pats perspective is this:
Mike Pettine, Cleveland Browns coach, ready to unleash complex defense | MMQB
Classic Rex right there. Can't wait for the 'playbook-gate' outrage from the NY media to commence
There are some other notes on how the Browns tempo on offense will be similar to New England's and other interesting scheme, team building, and other notes for the football junkies.
Mike Pettine, Cleveland Browns coach, ready to unleash complex defense | MMQB
The initial playbook itself is actually quite thin, and that’s by design. “I don’t put a lot of graduate-level information in it,” Pettine says. “We know in places like New England, it’s only a matter of time that they somehow mysteriously end up with our playbook.”
Pettine told a story of how, at Wes Welker’s wedding, Tom Brady bragged a little bit to Jets outside linebackers coach Mike Smith, who was Welker’s college roommate, that the Patriots may or may not have had possession of a couple Jets defensive playbooks.
“It didn’t shock me because Rex would give them out like candy anyway,” Pettine says. “He gave one out to [Alabama coach Nick] Saban and I was like, ‘Don’t you know Saban and Bill [Belichick] are pretty good friends? I have a feeling it’s going to end up in New England.’”
Classic Rex right there. Can't wait for the 'playbook-gate' outrage from the NY media to commence
There are some other notes on how the Browns tempo on offense will be similar to New England's and other interesting scheme, team building, and other notes for the football junkies.