BlacknGold77
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What is the Patriots system? No one seems to be able to define it. Josh McDaniels couldn't bring it with him to St. Louis or Denver. Charlie Weis couldn't bring it with him to Notre Dame. Bill O'Brien is unable to run it in Houston.
Matt Cassel ran it in 2008...and had a passer rating roughly 30 points lower than Brady. The Patriots, in that season, (a) missed the playoffs for the only time in the last 14 seasons, and (b) scored over 21 points in only 8 of 16 games.
I would like to know specifically what the system is. I don't believe these offensive schemes are incredibly arcane and impossible to explain. The NFL is a copycat league; why isn't anyone else running it?
I used to hear about the system in 2003-04 and about how the quarterback has it easy and guys like Troy Brown, David Givens, and Deion Branch were very underrated, and that Charlie Weis is the secret behind Brady's success. Then the offense changed to a 5-WR spread in 2007 under Josh McDaniels. Then a 2-TE offense under Bill O'Brien. And now a complete chameleon assimilating all of these different personnel groupings.
No coach has ever left New England and successfully coached up a quarterback to make him elite.
Belichick is a great coach. Brady is the reason why the offense is always elite.
the system is fairly straight forward...
1. have a high level of flexibility in formations and personel to keep the defense off balance
2. allow the play/routes to change based on the pre-snap read
3. need a QB and receivers who are able to read the defense and alter the routes accordingly
4. heavily attack the seams and middle with the passing game
5. need to be able to quickly go through the reads as well as throw to spots anticipating the receiver. also know primary targets based off of the defense pre snap. then need to deliver accurate mid range throws.
6. need to be able to heavily change up the game plan, speed, type of plays mutliple times during the game to keep the defense off balance.
The reason McDaniels and Weis failed is the QBs they had. You need the highly intelligent, super computer QB like Brady to make the system work. You need a QB that can expertly read defenses, tirelessly prepares to that everything is instinct and time to think isnt needed and can make the throws.
It's like a Formula 1 race car. If you put an average joe in it and let them loose on a track its going to be a disaster and the car will look slow, poorly handling, etc. The car is perfect, the issue is the driver. Thats why McDaniels and Weis failed outside NE.