Maybe, and, again, I'd get cutting back on the playbook when it's a new OC (and one who doesn't know his ass from his elbows about the OC position yet), and a bunch of guys who might be a little slow in picking up the complexities of a post-snap adjustment offense. But none of those players have given any reason to believe that they should be given such a high level of deference when it comes to massive system change. I don't want to see the "throw it to a spot" offense. That style of offense is much more limited at the high end.
And now I'm having flashbacks to the Brady v. Manning debates of years past....
There are a LOT of possible takes that can come from this so-called "streamlining" of the offensive play calling. It really depends on what narrative you want to promote.
1. If you want to be negative an easy one is that it is all just a ploy to make it easier fir the unqualified offensive coaches to learn their position.
2. I promoted this one a couple of days ago. A narrative that promotes the idea that this steamlining is nothing more than a natural move of the pendulum from uber complex to something less so. It's an off season result of self scouting your playbook, and something that all coaches go through from HS to the NFL. Looking for scheming edges while NOT creating execution errors and slow play due the complexity.
Since because there are still a LOT of questions of who this team actually will become, I would contend that depending on how fast (or slow) players develop will dictate just how complex the schemes become as the season progresses.
3. I heard this one the other day and actually HOPE this is true. I think that a lot of the offensive changes put this offense to be more in line with what Kyle Shanahan has developed over the years. In his system the WR's and TE's DON'T have a lot of post snap reads to make and he's had a LOT of success utilizing smaller more athletic TE's like Kittle and we have in Smith and to some lesser degree Henry. The Shanahan system also is run heave and relies more on athletic OLmen than power guys like we have run in the past. Thus the oft used and little understood trope of the "outside zone running attack".
This offense has been success everywhere its been propagated by either Shanahan or his minions. We SEEM to have the kind of talent that would make the transition fairly easy.
4 A couple of other quick thoughts from what I have read recently
a. Evidently Joshua Bledsoe made a great impression with his play today. It got me thinking about just how much really good talent we have at the S position this season. It isn't a bad problem to have, however it might end up meaning we will be cutting a really good S at the end of August.
b. One of the more ludicrous media tropes this early into camp will be who will be calling the offensive plays. This actually won't matter until actual preseason games at the EARLIEST. Right now the coaches are calling specific plays to see how they work against specific defenses that are expected and working out of the play at the LOS when they get something different. Right now this is all being scripted before practice. I could be calling them for all that it matters.
c. Finally, this is all great stuff, but frankly there is really nothing to see here UNTIL the pads come on, and it will be about a week after that before players will be used to the hitting and pads. I'm not going down until sometime next week.
