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https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/patriots/2018/02/01/anatomy-game-plan-how-patriots/HK5YxisywSjxpM8DKspAjM/story.html

 

Posting this in the Colts section because of McDaniels. Some good stuff about their weekly routine and schedule, with a pretty heavy slant toward the offensive stuff. 

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After the full team meeting, the Patriots break off into offense and defense for more meetings. McDaniels runs the offensive side and Matt Patricia the defensive meetings, and they give their major talking points for the week. But every position coach is allowed to address the room and talk about his specific area.

“We all have the opportunity to present our own things to the team,” Schuplinski said. “Bill is cool. He gives us the opportunity to present it to the team, then he adds his part in, too.”

After offense and defense meetings, the Patriots split into positional meetings, where the nitty-gritty of the game plan is taught by the position coaches.

“Josh, he’s like Bill — he’s the overseer,” Fears said. “He covers the general, the emphasis that he wants to make, and you cover the specific that applies to your position.”

The Patriots teach the game plan via PowerPoint, video presentation, or walk-throughs. Each week is different.

“We often change the way we present our information, because we never want anything to be stale,” O’Shea said. “We feel like what works best is when our players can actively be involved and when we teach them that, we ask a lot of questions, we want a lot of answers. It’s a very enjoyable part of our process.”

 

 

Not that the process will be identical in Indy, but it stands to reason McDaniels will bring a similar routine with him. 

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53 minutes ago, Superman said:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/patriots/2018/02/01/anatomy-game-plan-how-patriots/HK5YxisywSjxpM8DKspAjM/story.html

 

Posting this in the Colts section because of McDaniels. Some good stuff about their weekly routine and schedule, with a pretty heavy slant toward the offensive stuff. 

 

Not that the process will be identical in Indy, but it stands to reason McDaniels will bring a similar routine with him. 

 

Nice article. When Brady said "This is how we did it in the 2007 divisional round game and this time we will do it differently", sounds like this was written around the Jags game prep time (that is who they played in the 2007 divisional round). They have sabermetrics and a huge division of labor to handle the plethora of volume of plays for players to digest.

 

Ultimately, you have to line up and play and execute. Revis was apparently telling Malcolm Butler on the plane that every time the Patriots ran that play (the one where he intercepted RW in the SB) in practice, he would get beat and he better get it right the next time. Then the moment came and Butler executed. I heard that on Golic and Wingo (formerly Mike and Mike) last morning. Plays can be called all you want, you have to have the right players to execute them. That is why McDaniels and Ballard being on the same page to get the players that make plays is important.

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Speaking of getting the right players.  Cowherd was talking about how Parcells and Bellichik can't handle ownership/FO meddling with how they run the team.  Especially acquiring players. How it caused Parcells to quit and how it might be causing BB to quit (the whole trading JG, keeping TB thing).   We know that JMcD wanted the same control with Denver.  Even though Josh learned his lessons, You know he's going to want SOME and probably considerable input in acquiring his kind of players.  I think it's this dynamic that could be really special.  Because KC and Chicago brought in very talented players while BB brought in situational players on the cheap often. What I'm saying is that maybe we end up with an offensive system as good as the Pats, because that's what it is essentially , but we end up with a better GM....thus making us ......better?  That would be the optimistic side.  The flip side is that McD becomes at odds with some of Ballards picks after a while, wanting more control like the coaching tree he came from.  I'm more of an optimist, so I'm going for the former.

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3 hours ago, Lef said:

That's what I am hoping for - a better system of preparing for each opponent. We need it because we have been out coached for too long. 

 

Holder just wrote an article about his conversation with Dwayne Allen. You can't read his quotes without getting the impression that there wasn't a very high standard with the previous coaching staff. Combine that with the 'you're not in Indy anymore' video from the preseason, and the quiet rumblings that some players weren't being held accountable, and there might be something to all of that.

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"We have to be ready for it, but we might not want to overload our guys with it.”

 

That's the most profound line I got from the article. It's an important lesson. There is a danger in paralysis by over analysis. I learned this in graduate school when I wrote my first Master thesis. There's the accumulation phase, screening phase, & just start writing something phase. 

 

My point is this: Eventually, you need to trust your instincts because you've done your homework & put the work in. Now, go out there & produce & sooner or later; it all clicks & falls into place. The key is understanding when the studying stops & practical application actually begins. 

 

Football & scholarly work are very similar in this regard. Knowing when evaluation stops & just do it begins. 

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Just because he comes from NE, I'm totally expecting that, when it comes to talk to players about the gameplan for season opener, McDaniels enters the stage with a football in his hands and says: OK, who's ready to deflate some footballs?

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46 minutes ago, Finball said:

Just because he comes from NE, I'm totally expecting that, when it comes to talk to players about the gameplan for season opener, McDaniels enters the stage with a football in his hands and says: OK, who's ready to deflate some footballs?

 

And here's the pitch.

 

A swing and a miss.  Strike 3.

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2 hours ago, Finball said:

Just because he comes from NE, I'm totally expecting that, when it comes to talk to players about the gameplan for season opener, McDaniels enters the stage with a football in his hands and says: OK, who's ready to deflate some footballs?

 

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11 hours ago, Superman said:

 

Holder just wrote an article about his conversation with Dwayne Allen. You can't read his quotes without getting the impression that there wasn't a very high standard with the previous coaching staff. Combine that with the 'you're not in Indy anymore' video from the preseason, and the quiet rumblings that some players weren't being held accountable, and there might be something to all of that.

I got that impression as well.

 

Pagano seemed to be that boss that some have had over the years. A decent friendly boss, but not the type who will make everyone excel at their jobs.

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24 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:

I would guess that 20 other teams probably do things this same way..

I dont know what is unique here

And there in lies the rub...just like 32 schools but one is being run by graduates of MIT and the rest by simple high school graduates and even some drop outs. They are all teaching the same assignments but for one the attention to detail, the knowledge, experience is just on a whole other level. It isn’t what and how...it’s in the details and in the practice and execution. As we see on sundays..it’s a game of inches and making the right decisions and executing at the key times. NE just does it to a different degree and have players like Tom that can execute it at a higher level. We don’t have a player on this team like Tom. We definitely didn’t have coaches that taught nuances and then practiced and held players accountable like Bill. You know Bill wouldn’t put a guy on the field that didn’t know his job or roll...in Indy...we play guys all the time that weren’t ready or knew what to do.

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On 2/2/2018 at 11:05 PM, Jules said:

They get the video tape?

 

Okay sorry had to, the jokes just write themselves with that thread title to me........

 

lmao 

 

They “break down” the tape. It’s an enjoyable part of the day, to be so good at taping... I mean game planning. 

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