"Fresh Ideas" for 2026?

[mayoclinic]

Analysis: What ‘Fresh Ideas’ Could the Patriots Add to Their Scheme for the Upcoming Season?

Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel asked his coaching staff to provide new ideas to enhance New England's schemes in all three phases.

www.patriots.com

 

[mgteich]

Analysis: What ‘Fresh Ideas’ Could the Patriots Add to Their Scheme for the Upcoming Season?

Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel asked his coaching staff to provide new ideas to enhance New England's schemes in all three phases.

www.patriots.com

Some poster here believe that Josh will continue to dumb-down the Offense. I think that Josh will move forward in options and complexity.

 

[Clonamery]

Some poster here believe that Josh will continue to dumb-down the Offense. I think that Josh will move forward in options and complexity.

He will because he has to as a function of change.

 

[mayoclinic]

Want to see more 13 personnel.

 

[JoeSixPat]

Some poster here believe that Josh will continue to dumb-down the Offense. I think that Josh will move forward in options and complexity.

I agree. Adding Brown does imply a shift back to a more traditional receiving offense. Diggs had more yards on far fewer targets than Brown, who will probably command 125 -150 targets so by the math, fewer targets for other receivers.

But Brown stretches the D more and will draw double coverage more too - which I expect Josh to use to our advantage.

A guy like Doubs can line up anywhere and run almost any route. Our RBs are also legit receiving threats and I can even see him calling plays to throw to one of our blocking TEs to keep Ds off balance.

Having a strong running game also opens things up nicely, especially if we have a FB who can punch a hole.

Josh and Drake did a great job spreading the ball as they really did need to depend on the pass last year, so a shift with better-skilled players is natural, but I don't see Josh going back to the days of effectively having just throwing to Welker and Moss on nearly every play. Brown will get the most targets but I still expect to see a spread and balanced offense.

I think we'd all like to see them run a no-huddle at times and that might be something where Maye is helped by another year of development - but if the OL can protect him better, he can take all the time in the world if he makes the pass.