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BB did evolve though. Hence Moss, Gronk, and Hernandez. The problem is we lacked talent the last few years. Scheme can only make up for so much and my criticism of BOB is that he did a worse job of scheming than Josh McD or even Patricia did.
In general fans focus too much on offensive systems. The modern day NFL and really for the last 10 years is a huge melting pot. The difference between EP and West Coast in the NFL is numbers vs colors in play names. Different teams slightly emphasize certain concepts like RPO and outside zone more than others, and that’s largely based on personnel, but play action and synergy between run to pass and pass to run is the bread and butter. The differences make up less than 15-20% of play calls.
Other than the disaster attempt to totally revamp the offense at the start of 2022 season, the Patriots always used the same core system and just added different wrinkles. They never veered very far from the base system. And if anything, it got more complicated as the years went on because of Brady and his mastery of the system.
I mean the Shanahan system is based on the west coast offense that teams were running in the 90s. It was just more radically changed than the Pats have changed their system over the years. I don't think the Pats have ever evolved their offense remotely like Shanahan has modernized the WCO.