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Assuming that the NFL is able to play football this season, there will be effects from the pandemic, starting with the lockdown restructuring of the draft, extending to the on-boarding of new players and very likely impacting OTAs and perhaps training camp.
Considering this, do you think Belichick’s strategy about building his team for the upcoming season has been affected by this? How?
Also hoping this thread will provide a good opportunity to discuss what those effects will likely be.
I expect that the effects will be especially significant to the kind of chemistry development Brady had traditionally worked on with his WRs during the off season. I’d extend to thinking that there will be effects from the emphasis on book learning instead of on-field reps starting now, which will mean that timing may be less refined. In short it seems to me that offenses may need to be simplified and some aspects may be less effective.
That makes me wonder if part of the rationale behind the Pats’ draft strategy was an expectation that offenses will be more vulnerable to defensive disruption, and that assimilating new players into the offense will be harder and less rewarding.
So, what does everyone else think?
H/T to Yukon Cornelius for his post in the UDFA thread for helping to motivate me to post this. I’d been thinking about this since the draft, and his post made some of the same points I’d been thinking.
Considering this, do you think Belichick’s strategy about building his team for the upcoming season has been affected by this? How?
Also hoping this thread will provide a good opportunity to discuss what those effects will likely be.
I expect that the effects will be especially significant to the kind of chemistry development Brady had traditionally worked on with his WRs during the off season. I’d extend to thinking that there will be effects from the emphasis on book learning instead of on-field reps starting now, which will mean that timing may be less refined. In short it seems to me that offenses may need to be simplified and some aspects may be less effective.
That makes me wonder if part of the rationale behind the Pats’ draft strategy was an expectation that offenses will be more vulnerable to defensive disruption, and that assimilating new players into the offense will be harder and less rewarding.
So, what does everyone else think?
H/T to Yukon Cornelius for his post in the UDFA thread for helping to motivate me to post this. I’d been thinking about this since the draft, and his post made some of the same points I’d been thinking.