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Back in the fall there were a number of articles floating around with content similar to this:
Patriots have a new strategy, which one coach is calling 'genius' - CBSSports.com
Personally, I'm not so sure this scheme has worked for us. I know we had a lot of injury this year at oline, but I can't help but wonder if we wouldn't have been able to manage a bit better had we not had this level of complication. I know this scheme was installed to help with injury management, I'm just not sure it worked. Our guys never seemed to know who they needed to block. Assignments seemed confused. Often defenders ran right past with little or no contact, leading me to think, this problem isn't so much physical as mental.
What are your thoughts on DeGug's rotating oline scheme? Do you expect we will stick with it next season?
In the NFL, most teams hope that they can start the same five players on their offensive line all season, with the hope that the unit eventually builds chemistry by playing together.
That's not the Patriots plan though, at least not this year.
This year, the Patriots are rotating guys in and out at such a furious pace that the team didn't use the same line combination once during their first five possesions in the team's season-opening win over Pittsburgh.
Florida State offensive line coach Rick Trickett, who's been coaching football for over 40 years, has been impressed with the Patriots.
"I think it's one of the smartest things I've ever seen," Trickett told the Boston Herald. "It's genius."
"It's not done just randomly. There's a specific reason why we rotate guys when we do, where we rotate them," DeGuglielmo said. "There's a rhyme and reason to everything."
Patriots have a new strategy, which one coach is calling 'genius' - CBSSports.com
Personally, I'm not so sure this scheme has worked for us. I know we had a lot of injury this year at oline, but I can't help but wonder if we wouldn't have been able to manage a bit better had we not had this level of complication. I know this scheme was installed to help with injury management, I'm just not sure it worked. Our guys never seemed to know who they needed to block. Assignments seemed confused. Often defenders ran right past with little or no contact, leading me to think, this problem isn't so much physical as mental.
What are your thoughts on DeGug's rotating oline scheme? Do you expect we will stick with it next season?