CLNS Media’s Taylor Kyles and SI’s Mike Kadlick are back in the film room to take a look at how new Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels can get the most out of second year quarterback Drake Maye.
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00:00I am joined by Robert Griffin III, James White, Field, Yates, Mena Kimes.
00:10All right, so first play we're going to look at, second and two, one of the Patriots' first
00:14offensive plays.
00:18What's going on, everybody?
00:19Mike Cavak here, Taylor Kyle's there, back with our second Patriots Daily episode of
00:25the day, back on the offensive side of the football.
00:28This time this morning, we were here reacting to the Patriots' higher offensive coordinator,
00:33Terrell Williams.
00:34Today, another episode involving Josh McDaniels.
00:37Our first film room dive of the offseason, taking a look at just exactly, yeah, Taylor's
00:43stuff here.
00:44No more reactions to, yeah, exactly.
00:48No more riffing about nonsense, just looking at the film and seeing just how Josh McDaniels
00:53can maximize Drake May.
00:55We're going to look at how, again, how we can maximize that skill set.
00:58We're going to look at some quotes that Josh McDaniels mentioned earlier this season on
01:02Games with Names with Julian Edelman sort of talking about May's skill set and also
01:07the steps he takes in his offense to develop young quarterbacks.
01:11So jam-packed, going to be fun.
01:14The first thing we're going to do, though, is look at the Patriots' offensive roster
01:17as a whole and kind of figure out what or who the Josh McDaniels hire affects and in
01:23what way.
01:24Our guys in good standing, our guys in bad standing, and sort of what it could mean for
01:29basically everybody on the roster.
01:30We'll do that really quick here before we dive in to Josh McDaniels.
01:32So Taylor, if you want to pull up that roster, we're going to use the same one we used last
01:36week and kind of figure out what exactly this whole thing means for each and every player.
01:41And I think we start at quarterback.
01:44It's A-plus for Drake May.
01:45Everything's good.
01:46And I think everything's probably good for Joe Milton, too, someone who will come in
01:51and continue to be able to develop in Josh McDaniels' system.
01:54Yeah, I think this will be really good for both guys, especially Drake May.
01:57And we'll get into it more once we get into all the ways that Josh McDaniels can maximize
02:01him.
02:02But the type of system that Josh McDaniels runs, we've already heard from Alex Van Pelt
02:06talking about how they wanted to be multiple, how they wanted to be adaptable and all those
02:09things.
02:10But that literally is what the Erhard Perkins scheme, what Josh McDaniels runs is, where
02:15the game plan can change week to week.
02:17Honestly, go check out Brian Hoyer's appearance on, I think it was the NBC Sports with Tom
02:23and Phil.
02:24Patriots Talk Podcast.
02:26Yes, he had a great appearance on there, kind of breaking down the difference between the
02:30West Coast and the Erhard Perkins, where with that one, with the latter, you really are
02:34changing it week to week versus the West Coast, where you're running the same things.
02:38You're just disguising them differently, which is why all the window dressing you see with
02:42the motion and different looks from teams like the Dolphins, the 49ers, the Rams.
02:47That's because that's an integral part of their scheme.
02:49You have to present things different ways or else people are going to have tells for
02:52your offense.
02:53And that was a bit of a problem for the Patriots last year.
02:55So being able to be in that kind of adaptable offense with the quarterback who can do pretty
02:59much anything.
03:00And on top of that, having an offense where the quarterback is the one in command, as
03:04we saw with Mac Jones, like the first week of his entire career, the Dolphins went absolutely
03:10nuts.
03:11They sent so much cover zero at him, which even gave Drake May issues last year, even
03:15though we didn't see a ton of it.
03:16And Drake consistently had answers for it.
03:18Another thing we'll get to, but being able to just have everything kind of under his
03:22rule is going to really pay off for this team down the road, given what a cerebral
03:26player he is.
03:27So probably maybe not quite as much early on, but as he gets smarter, I feel like just
03:33the ceiling is just unlimited with a guy like Drake May and Josh McDaniels and everything
03:37that he brings.
03:38As a very smart man, Magic, not Magic Johnson, Michael, was it Magic or Michael Jordan?
03:43The ceiling is the roof.
03:44It was Michael Jordan.
03:45Some nonsense phrase that he said at a UNC basketball game one time, but the ceiling
03:49is the roof for Drake May in this offense.
03:52I never understood that.
03:53I was going to say, I was like, does that even make sense?
03:56I mean, I don't know.
03:57It makes no sense.
03:58It's just, he was caught off guard, hot mic type of thing.
04:00But regardless, running back room here, Taylor, I think the fact that Mondrian's worked in
04:08Josh's system before, and then I also look at Antonio Gibson, who's under contract, a
04:12third down back who can catch the football as well, seems like a cerebral player.
04:18A smart guy to have in this system.
04:20I feel like both of those guys will ultimately benefit with this thing too.
04:23Yeah, Ramondre Stevenson obviously was his first season, but he had his best year under
04:27Josh McDaniels.
04:28I think he had a really good rotation going with not only Damian Harris, who was their
04:33top back at the time, but then Mondrian, obviously Damian got hurt as well, but he did a good
04:37job mixing those two where they really did feel like more of a 1A, 1B.
04:42Hopefully Josh, just the leadership that he provides will, and also Tony Dews will help
04:47with Ramondre's fumble issues.
04:49And then with Antonio Gibson, we talked about it last year, it was so odd that he never
04:54really turned into that third down receiving back who lined up all over the place, kind
04:59of like a James White that we were expecting.
05:01We saw that with Brandon Bolden though, in Mac Jones's rookie year, unfortunately, front
05:05of the show, James White went down early with what would ultimately be a career ending injury.
05:10Brandon Bolden took on all of that.
05:11He was running the wheels.
05:12He was splitting out and catching passes deep.
05:14So I think one, Antonio Gibson's going to have to be more consistent in pass protection.
05:19We broke it down at times in some games where he would miss assignments and sometimes get
05:23out, like we literally heard it from him.
05:25So he's going to have to be more consistent so that Josh McDaniels trusts him in those
05:29third down situations.
05:30But if he can, I really think in either way, especially in their empty packages, I think
05:34Josh McDaniels is going to do a much better job of maximizing Antonio Gibson.
05:39For sure.
05:40Seems like a good fit for both those guys, where it might not be a great fit for some
05:43of these guys, is the wide receiver room.
05:45And that's what we're going to get to next.
05:47Now I'll say it off the top, and we talked about-
05:50Coordinator hire is official, both of them.
05:52Oh, did they do D.C. as well?
05:54I saw that-
05:55Yeah.
05:56Josh, okay.
05:57Yeah, Terrell Williams was uploaded literally a minute ago.
05:58Got it.
05:59Okay.
06:00So the Patriots have officially announced the hiring of Josh McDaniels and Terrell Williams
06:04as their offensive and defensive coordinators.
06:08So not that there was any doubt that it would happen, but it is team official now.
06:12So here we go.
06:13The wide receiver room feels like sort of a mystery box.
06:16I'll say the one off the top, that one guy that's probably going to benefit the most
06:20is Kendrick Bourne, who we had his mental gaps the last couple of years, but he seemed
06:25to be pretty much in lockstep with Josh McDaniels' offense the last time he was here.
06:29We talked about it last night on the show, when the news broke about McDaniels, that
06:33Kendrick Bourne had a career year when Josh McDaniels was here in 2021.
06:37So if they can get on the same page back another year, post ACL surgery for Kendrick
06:42Bourne, I feel like it's only on the right track for him.
06:45But what are your thoughts on that, as well as Pop Douglas and the rest of these young
06:49receivers?
06:50How do you think they sort of stand in this Josh McDaniels' offense?
06:52Yeah, for Kendrick Bourne, this is like a best case scenario for him, really.
06:56Actually, Greg Bedard dropped a great nugget that Kendrick Bourne apparently is more of
07:00a visual learner, and Josh McDaniels was able to teach him in a way that really he was able
07:05to adapt to.
07:06And that was why Kendrick Bourne had a pretty insane year.
07:09The numbers are one thing.
07:10When you look at the types of catches he was making back in 2021, the hype was there for
07:16a reason in 2022.
07:18He really was balling out and felt like he should have been a bigger part of the offense
07:23back then.
07:24But obviously, they were running a lot of 12 personnel.
07:25Jacoby Myers was still the dude in that wide receiver room.
07:29So one, he goes back to a system he knows with a coach he knows.
07:33So a lot of the mental errors, I think, we won't see nearly as much of, hopefully, and
07:37the fact he's a year removed from the torn ACL.
07:40Now we can expect maybe some more explosiveness.
07:42So before the Josh hire, I was seeing Kendrick Bourne as a guy who really needed to secure
07:48a spot and have a great camp.
07:49Otherwise, maybe young guys were going to overtake him.
07:52But now it feels like Kendrick Bourne, this might be the best best place for him in the
07:55NFL.
07:56The young guys, it's tricky.
07:58Now with Keishon Booty, the speaking out and everything, you're hoping the new culture
08:02that's a little bit more buttoned up.
08:04You'd like to see him be more consistent.
08:06Drops were a problem.
08:07It seemed like effort or at least finish on routes were issues again.
08:10That's a whole culture thing where finish and effort from Mike Vrabel are the non-negotiables.
08:15So it doesn't really even matter about Josh McDaniels.
08:17He's got to really kind of continue to mature as a player.
08:21But I think that Josh would still be able to find a role for him, even if it was more
08:24as like a wide receiver, three wide receiver, four type.
08:27I'm not sure that he should be the starting X next season if they can help it.
08:31Jalen Polk, we talked about it.
08:33He pretty much is Jacoby Myers.
08:35Their skill sets are very similar, even though Jalen Polk maybe has a bit more versatility
08:39and juice.
08:40Now, struggled last year, no doubt about it, hopefully.
08:44And this is where it's tricky for him and Javon Baker.
08:47This is going to be their second year in the league.
08:49But this is going to be a whole different offense.
08:51Another offense where attention to detail is critical.
08:54Now with Polk, maybe if he can, you know, just have a mental reset, maybe this culture
08:59is good for him.
09:00His role is pretty easy to determine.
09:02Javon Baker, though, just because it seemed like it was even harder for him to mentally
09:05catch up.
09:06And it seemed like learning how to not only be a professional, but work in Alex Van Pelt's
09:10offense was complicated in college, really only lined up on one side of the field for
09:15the most vast majority of the time.
09:17And he ran a very small route tree.
09:19So honestly, Javon Baker is somebody I kind of see now on the outside looking in.
09:22He's going to have to have a great camp.
09:25Otherwise, I could see them trying to move on just because I think he could fit in Josh's
09:28offense, but I just don't love it necessarily.
09:31And then to Mario Douglas, I don't think he'll be terribly affected.
09:33I hope that Josh can maybe increase his awareness when it comes to zone coverage, scrambling,
09:39things like that, so he can be more consistent.
09:41But I see him a lot in that Danny Amendola vein, where he is someone who's probably not
09:45going to be on the field for base downs unless he really establishes himself, maybe takes
09:49another step.
09:50And he's just a guy you don't ever want to take off the field.
09:53With that Dola role, it's a lot of quick stuff in the flat, getting him in the space, not
09:57a whole lot of catches over the middle where he can take those big hits.
10:00Because as we know, Amendola injuries were a bit of an issue for him as well.
10:03So the returning guys, I think it should be good for them or the guys who've been in the
10:07league for a few years.
10:09Keyshawn Booty, again, he and the young receivers, I just think, really need to attach to this
10:14new culture and also just bring their best foot forward when they get back to camp.
10:19Because it is going to be pretty difficult adjusting to another pretty complex, I'll
10:24say, system, even if it is down a little bit.
10:26So it's easier for everyone.
10:27Definitely.
10:28You wonder, my thing with Jalen Polk is, yes, he sort of hit that mental lapse, which everyone
10:32sort of talked about last year.
10:34I wonder if a reset, new system, new coach, new vibe is actually, even though it's a change,
10:39it's beneficial to what happened to him last season.
10:41We'll see what happens.
10:42He obviously has the skill set.
10:43He had the production in college.
10:45So hopefully he will get things going here next season.
10:51Now moving on to tight ends, Hunter Henry, his first or second best season, I would say,
10:57with the Patriots.
10:58He obviously had a career high with nine touchdowns.
11:01Josh McDaniel's season here in 2021 had 603 receiving yards on 50 catches.
11:07This year, he kind of went nuclear, 66 catches for 674.
11:11Not nuclear, but nuclear for Hunter Henry anyway.
11:13But had a career, no, I'm sorry, I'm reading the stats wrong, but 12.1 average yards per
11:19catch in 2021 here with Josh.
11:21They used him pretty well.
11:22And like I said, he connected with Mack Jones on nine touchdowns that year.
11:25So your thoughts on Hunter Henry being back in the fold with Josh McDaniel's, as well
11:30as not only Jaheim Bell, but the potential of Austin Hooper returning now that it is
11:35a different system, not Alex Van Pelt.
11:38Will they prioritize Austin Hooper as much as we thought last week, or could they maybe
11:41go a different route at the second tight end position?
11:45I think that Austin Hooper still fits the mold of what they generally like, especially
11:49considering he gives you good receiving ability and he's played under Grable before.
11:53So yeah, I think Austin Hooper in pretty much the same role as he had last year definitely
11:57makes sense as kind of a priority re-signing.
12:00Hunter Henry, no one has used him as well as in the red zone as Josh McDaniel's did.
12:05Also, I think the stuff over the middle where we know Josh loves that play where you pull
12:09the guard, make it look like a long trap, and then you send your tight end, your slot
12:13receivers down the seam.
12:14I think he and Drake May are going to be absolute money on that.
12:18Also the crossers, the sale concepts.
12:21This is going to be great for Hunter Henry and Kendrick Bourne, the guys who've already
12:23shown they can thrive in this offense, and I think Austin Hooper will slide right in.
12:28Now where things get more complicated is with Jaheim Bell, because we all know him as more
12:32of an H-back type, more of a guy you want in the backfield.
12:36In terms of that full-back role, typically Josh McDaniel's has had real hammers like
12:41Jakob Johnson, like James Devlin.
12:43He hasn't had the more Kyle Juszczyk types, although he did have Aaron Hernandez, obviously,
12:48who you kind of see Jaheim Bell fitting in that role of a guy who you just line up all
12:52over the field.
12:53Now Jaheim needs to be more consistent in his execution, but I could see a bit of that
12:58type of like chess piece joker role that we did see from Hernandez back in the day.
13:03I don't know if he'll be used as much as a full-back.
13:05I really don't think that fits the type of gap scheme that Josh McDaniel's is going to
13:09run where you're taking on a lot of defensive ends.
13:12You're going downhill on ISO, and you're taking on middle linebackers.
13:16I just don't know that Jaheim Bell is that guy.
13:18I think he's more of a guy you want on the move, maybe on the backside.
13:21It'll be interesting to see how that works out, but his role is going to be just really
13:25dependent on his consistency in camp, I think, and then Jack Westover, obviously, is still
13:29a bit of a mystery, but he's similar in that more of an H-back than really a full-back
13:34type or a guy you want on the line scrimmage.
13:36Got it. All right.
13:37Well, one last thing here, and it is the offensive line, a position group we know has
13:42struggled with the Patriots the last couple of seasons.
13:44How can Josh McDaniel's improve that?
13:46Do they have to go through free agency, the draft, things like that?
13:49But also, I will say off the top before I kind of hand it over to you, David Andrews,
13:53Mike Unwenu have worked with Josh McDaniel's before.
13:55There's Carey over there.
13:57That certainly helps.
13:58Cole Strange, actually, as well as a rookie, was here with two years, no?
14:05Was Cole Strange here with Josh McDaniel's?
14:07He might not have been.
14:08Cole was not, no, 2022, because he was drafted because Matt Patricia wanted to go to outside.
14:14You're totally right.
14:15So Cole has not worked with Josh McDaniel's.
14:17Appreciate the correction there, but Andrews and Mike Unwenu have, so I feel like that
14:22is obviously a positive, can kind of turn over and be familiar with that, but thoughts
14:29on everywhere else, the rookies, Caden Wallace, Leighton Robinson, and Vidarian Lowe sort
14:34of still being that potential one of the top swing tackles for the Patriots after they
14:38ultimately address the position moving forward.
14:40Yeah, this is definitely a scheme that favors Cole Strange at center over guard, because
14:44although I think they're still going to run a decent amount of outside zone, I think that's
14:48what Antonio Gibson's best at, so I think we'll see more of that when he's in the game.
14:52I think also the fact that you want to move the puck a little bit more with Drake May.
14:56Outside zone just makes that a lot easier because you're moving sideways versus moving
15:01forwards as you would on more of like gap concepts and things like that.
15:05So I like, it complicates things when it comes to the left guard spot, because I think you
15:09feel less confident that you have a potential starter, at least if it was an outside zone
15:13scheme.
15:14I think Cole Strange is a more ideal fit at that spot, but now you're thinking, okay,
15:17Leighton Robinson's unproven, Cole, you know, I don't love him as a fit, so it complicates
15:23things there.
15:24Left tackle, you still need a starter, but I still think, you know, Vidarian Lowe, quality
15:29spot starter.
15:30I think he's much better blocking downhill in those gap kinds of schemes.
15:34Leighton Robinson, a guy where his physicality, his length, his power, I think that's going
15:38to be really good, especially with him as more of a polar, like ceiling on the edge
15:42and things like that.
15:43Need to be better though, getting to that second level is what I'd really say.
15:46Cade Wallace also, I think he has a potential to be really good with Mike and Wenu on those
15:51combo blocks, but I also need to see him sustain blocks with more consistency from their city.
15:56So I think he has a little more chance to stick around because he is such a good fit.
16:01I think he's okay in outside zone.
16:03I thought he was manageable, but he's definitely better going downhill.
16:06So I think the offensive line room, the depth looks better, although I think Cole Strange
16:11now doesn't look quite as good if you're thinking about playing him at guard.
16:15Should be interesting how that pans out again.
16:17Hopefully David Andrews comes back because obviously he, you know, he's, he's their best
16:21option at center, but he's also worked in the system before can help Drake may along,
16:26but if he doesn't, I do like the fact that you mentioned he's probably better fit at
16:29center than guard in this system.
16:31He had the connection with may down the stretch last year, so he could potentially be their
16:35center in waiting.
16:37If David Andrews does move on to retirement.
16:39So we'll see how that all plays out, but that is a quick look at the roster overall.
16:44Now we're going to get into how to address this comment really quickly.
16:50Actually also we have a chat, so we had to, we have to get to, okay.
16:54Talent means nothing in the NFL.
16:57If you cannot play football, if you can't do what you're expected to do, if your coaches
17:01don't trust you, you consistently heard from Alex van Pelt that Baker just wasn't doing
17:05enough in practice to warrant a significant role on game days.
17:09So I don't really care about the town anymore.
17:11That was why I was intrigued by him.
17:13But after seeing week after week of him, either not getting a lot of snaps or getting them
17:16and not making the most of them, I'm sorry, but yeah, he's on the outside looking in because
17:20maybe a coach who I don't want to say is less detail oriented, but I just think someone
17:26like Josh, whose offense is so, so dependent like Alex and Peltz on timing between the
17:30quarterback and the receivers.
17:32I just, I need to see it before I put any stock in him being someone they rely on.
17:37All right.
17:38And we also have the super chat here.
17:39Good afternoon, gents.
17:40We appreciate you, Jeff.
17:41Did Josh ever have input in drafting offensive linemen?
17:44Was he a part of the drafting of David Andrews, Joe Tooney, Shaq Mason, Nate Solder?
17:50I don't know.
17:51I'm not a hundred percent sure how involved he was with those guys.
17:55But again, that sounds like a bill job, to be honest.
17:58It does.
17:59I mean, maybe he leaned on him a little bit just to figure out what kind of guys you would
18:03prefer.
18:04Yeah.
18:05I feel like scar though, before, I don't know after scar retired, but that was the person
18:09who bill was consulting.
18:10I think actually, no, he continued to consult him after scar retired.
18:14So yeah, I think it was much more scar neckier than it was McDaniel's if he was involved
18:17at all.
18:18Yeah, for sure.
18:19I always appreciate the super chat.
18:21So we're going to get into all of Josh and how he can maximize Drake May.
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20:23All right, we're going to dive into the film.
20:25Taylor has one more thing.
20:26I see it on his face.
20:27What do you got for me?
20:28I was just thinking about this.
20:30So everybody's doing the Drake and Josh memes and everything is what I was doing during
20:33the break.
20:34Um, so Drake and Josh debuted in 2004.
20:37Oh my God.
20:39I think May was born in 2002.
20:42I don't even know if he watched Drake and Josh.
20:44No shot he watched it.
20:46That's like, Oh my God.
20:49That makes me feel really freaking old.
20:51And then you think about like, like I'm trying to think of, okay, like we watched Drake and
20:56Josh as kids, but what are the shows that like the older generation watched as kids
21:01that we don't know about?
21:03Like that's Drake and Josh for him.
21:05Bell like comes to mind because Saved by the Bell was like a 90 show, although maybe even
21:11all that, like those are what Drake and Josh is to Drake May, which I really don't like
21:15that.
21:16Oh, that's so existential dread, existential dread, but I'm sorry, I got us off track that
21:20would just freak me out.
21:21That's nasty.
21:22That's gross.
21:23I'm, you got us off track and you made me feel really old, so I appreciate that.
21:26But, uh, all right, let's get into Drake May.
21:29And I want to read off a couple of things to kind of set the stage on what we're going
21:33to look at and what ultimately we can look for with McDaniels and Drake May because he
21:38did speak about Drake May earlier this off season on Julian Edelman's podcast, uh, games
21:45with names.
21:46Talked a little bit about Drake May's skillset this off season said he didn't get a ton to
21:50look at him in the spring, but he has great size.
21:52He's really athletic and thought this was interesting.
21:55Doesn't know where he'll fit in the hole.
21:57Like if he'll play, um, as a runner, as a pure pocket passer, but he was interested
22:02to see if they'll use him as a dual threat guy.
22:04Um, and then the other thing he mentioned too, with Drake May is the under center exchange,
22:09which it didn't look right in the preseason.
22:12He figured it out a little bit down the stretch, but there was still some, uh, Brown's fault,
22:17the damn towel.
22:18Exactly.
22:19Right.
22:20And so, but there was still some question marks about it down the stretch.
22:22And I liked how Josh said, um, it's all about time on task and getting those reps in.
22:27And that kind of leads to the development where you don't do something much in college,
22:31but once you get reps and reps and reps and reps on it, then that's how you're going to
22:35get better as a player, which ultimately comes into the development for him saying that,
22:41you know, you need to have a plan.
22:42It starts from the head coach.
22:44Um, and you kind of got to make progress every step of the way talked about.
22:49It's all about where the player's at and then where you want him to be, where guys he's
22:53worked with.
22:54And he mentioned Matt Castle, Jimmy Garoppolo, Jarrett Stidham, Jacoby Brissett, Mack Jones,
22:58Aiden O'Connell, who were all at different spots in their development when he grabbed
23:02them or started working with them and had to kind of curate the kidnap them, grabbed
23:10him by the head and said, I need to develop you.
23:12Where are you at?
23:13But that's kind of what he did.
23:14Right.
23:15And so talking about being at those different spots, having good feel for where those players
23:18are at.
23:19And this one stood out to me too.
23:21And this is something Mack Jones used to talk about a lot, where he has his buckets and
23:24you know, this is my bucket and I put things in this bucket and that bucket, Joshua Daniels
23:28said the same thing.
23:30All guys have a bucket when you're a young quarterback, it's more like a cup.
23:33And how much can you fit in that cup?
23:36And uh, sort of taking things piece by piece where, okay, today we're going to work on
23:40third down today.
23:41We're going to work on blitz today.
23:42We're going to work on exchange.
23:43What can you know?
23:44What can you sort of ace?
23:46And then we can move on to the next thing.
23:48And you know what that sounds like?
23:50What's that?
23:51That's what Vrabel said when he talked about how he wanted to support Drake May and saying,
23:54or really just what he wanted to do with his offense.
23:56And he's like, I'm not going to send RPOs and we're quarterbacks, not good at RPOs.
24:00I'm not going to have all these motions and shift and put all these cadences in if our
24:04guys aren't ready for it.
24:05So that's one of those ways where you can see where this meeting probably went well
24:08between, you know, ownership for Abel and Josh McDaniels, where he's well aware because
24:13he's worked with young quarterbacks before that you can't just completely show the fire
24:16hose in their mouth.
24:17Just be like, all right, drink, pledge, drink.
24:19You have to sometimes wait and see what they're comfortable with, especially in an offense
24:23as robust as what the Patriots have, because obviously it's been, they spent years building
24:28it and kind of growing it out based on what Brady was comfortable with and what he knew.
24:33And the thing with that too, which I found interesting was sort of what he said at the
24:36end of the conversation, which was, I love the idea of the quarterback being able to
24:41understand it all and goal here.
24:44I don't think he needs Drake to know it immediately, but they're going to sort of build on the
24:48ability to understand the offense in full, make line calls, make changes.
24:52And that's the other thing I saw you a quote, tweeted Brian's tweet from earlier where last
24:56year line line calls protections audibles from the offensive line was really on the
25:01center position where with under Josh McDaniels, it's more so on the quarterback changing up
25:06those types of things.
25:07So I think eventually they'll want to build Drake up to that.
25:10And our buddy Andre Weingarten also pointed out that now, if the quarterback goes down,
25:15you're screwed regardless.
25:16Now, if your center, unfortunately goes down, it doesn't hamstring your offense as much
25:20because now you don't have a young guy or an inexperienced guy or what have you having
25:25to pick up this whole offense and do it themselves.
25:27Now that responsibility is with people who you hope are never going to get injured.
25:33So that's another pretty huge benefit to that.
25:35Exactly.
25:36And so this, this air heart Perkins system that Josh runs that we're going to get into.
25:39I like that.
25:40You mentioned how it, it doesn't just change by player, but it changes by game plan and
25:47by week and what you need to be able to do.
25:49And it kind of brings in everything.
25:50And it's been mentioned that Josh has brought in some college into his scheme where he worked
25:55with Ohio state last year.
25:56So I want to get into, and we should get into the film room now, and we're going to start
26:00with attacking the middle of the field.
26:02That's going to kind of be one of the bread and butters here.
26:04So take us through what you were able to grab and and how that can help Drake may in this
26:08office.
26:09Yeah.
26:10So we're attacking the middle is obviously what Tom Brady did very well for a long time
26:13with Mac Jones was able to do for the most part.
26:16Now, one of the reasons that cam Newton struggled so much as a passer was because throwing over
26:19the middle, wasn't something he was as good at because he didn't have the arm velocity
26:22or the accuracy.
26:23And it made it a much more high volatile type of play.
26:27Drake may first thing I asked him when he was drafted was, you know, what's your bread
26:31and butter.
26:32What are you comfortable with?
26:33He loves throwing over the middle.
26:34He said, I'm a big tall guy.
26:35That's where I feel the most comfortable.
26:36Alex Van Pelt did a very good job taking advantage of that.
26:40I think that Joshua Daniels is just going to do it in some slightly different ways.
26:43Although a lot of these ideas and concepts are going to overlap.
26:46So first, we're going to look at a play from Josh McDaniels when he was with the Raiders.
26:52This is going to be cross dagger peel.
26:54Basically what that means is up top, you're going to get a post route on the outside.
26:58You're going to get a wheel from the tight end.
27:00Basically most of the time what that's designed to do is just clear out that part of the field
27:04because here you're going to get Devante Adams running a crosser and you're going to get
27:08Keenan Cole.
27:09I believe this is running the dagger route or the dig behind it.
27:14So all right, you're clearing out this top side of the field, the middle.
27:17You want Devante Adams, but if he's not there, you're fine throwing backside to your dig
27:22route.
27:23So what we're actually going to see here is the defense we're going to see from the Colts
27:27actually prioritizes taking away Devante Adams.
27:31That leaves the deep middle wide open.
27:34Unfortunately, Derek Carr is not able to deliver an accurate ball.
27:38That throw is incomplete, but the exciting part of this is that you can actually make
27:43these throws with Drake May because that big post is his bread and butter and the throw
27:48that we always go to when we want to talk about the post is the corner post.
27:51He threw to Javon Baker in the first game against the Eagles, dropped it in the bucket.
27:55Of course, Javon couldn't bring it in.
27:57We're not going to talk about that anymore, though.
27:59That is in the past.
28:00Now that's one way you can push the ball downfield, right?
28:03Play action, probably the most simple version of that, but you can also use max protection.
28:08This is something you see a lot in Josh McDaniels offenses, a lot of two man route combinations
28:13that give the quarterback a bit more protection and time to push the ball downfield here.
28:18We're not going to get play action, but we are going to get help from the tight ends
28:22and from the running back and the route combination we're going to get is a dig from Devante Adams
28:27with a post over the top.
28:29This time, the safety actually does a good job taking away the post and saying on top
28:32of it, but that leaves the middle of the route, the field wide open for Devante Adams.
28:37And once again, not an accurate throw, even though it's wide open.
28:40So that doesn't matter a throw that you expect Drake may to make.
28:44And one that we know he can make, even if it is tight coverage.
28:47This was during a two minute situation against the bears.
28:50Absolute dime to Keishon booty, despite the fact that the defender is playing leverage
28:54underneath and inside because the split safeties still drops an absolute dime.
29:00So again, the posts, the digs, you're going to see a lot of these under Josh McDaniels,
29:04but with Drake may you actually have a quarterback who isn't just going to threaten over the
29:08middle on the crossers and the digs and all the intermediate stuff.
29:12Like we always saw with Mac Jones, Drake may is going to threaten that post where if you
29:16decide that you're going to sit on that first in breaker, he's going to make you pay.
29:20Another one, the bread and butter for Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski, the run action where
29:25you send a tight end up the seam for a pretty easy completion.
29:29This is actually a more difficult version of it because typically you want to pull the
29:32guard to influence zone defenders and hold them in place, create some space behind them
29:37here.
29:38You're going to get Hunter Henry in the backfield and he's going to motion actually indicates
29:42man coverage.
29:43You're going to get the pull right here, make it look like long trap, which is a staple
29:46for the Patriots forces the linebackers to step up his Mac Jones, a bit more of a window,
29:51nice little route from Hunter Henry to get open, throw that down the seam.
29:55And we know Drake may loves him a nice seam ball because we saw it against the Jaguars.
30:00Great job seeing that the pole defender was occupied by Hunter Henry and not putting this
30:04too high, too low, putting this just right between zone defenders.
30:09So the KJ Osborne could make a pretty straightforward catch there.
30:13Another element that I think Josh McDaniels rather is going to bring to this offense,
30:17our answers against cover zero, not just answers, but potentially explosive plays.
30:22Now it felt like when the Patriots saw cover zero later in the season, no one really used
30:26it against Drake May early.
30:28They ticked it up more like against the chargers, against the bills.
30:31It felt like there weren't really great answers, or at least it didn't feel like Drake was
30:35confident when he threw it.
30:36It was either inaccurate.
30:37He held onto the ball, didn't make great decisions, or sometimes it felt like maybe the offense
30:41took a little too long to adjust.
30:43But I mentioned that first game from Drake or from, I'm sorry, Mac Jones, it's going
30:47to drive me crazy against Miami.
30:49Number 10, they should not have given Drake May the same number as Mac.
30:53Oh, wait, no, you're not.
30:54I was muted because I think I accidentally audio recorded something.
30:57All I was saying was they should not have given Drake May the number 10.
31:01I know it's his number, but same number as Mac.
31:04They look the same.
31:05Like, no.
31:06The M's, it's really, really messing me up.
31:08But anyway, you did see, especially early on, Josh actually gave Mac Jones the ability
31:14to get Mac's protection, keep the tight end, and keep the running back and throw downfield,
31:19which we didn't really see from Drake May.
31:21Again, it was a very small sample size, but this is one example of what we could see.
31:25So first, Mac Jones sees that it's cover zero, and he's going to do this little banjo thing.
31:31That's how you know he's changing the play, is going to get Hunter Henry to shift to the
31:34other side.
31:35You know how against the Seahawks we saw that they would use this formation where the tight
31:40end would kind of shift across, but before he crossed the center, they would snap the
31:45ball, and it basically forced one of the defenders on the tight end to kind of just stay and
31:48not enter the rush, and it took a man basically out of the play.
31:52Here they kind of do a similar thing by having Hunter Henry instead shift across the formation.
31:57That gives Mac Jones just enough time to let this go on a post to Nelson Aguilor.
32:02That was one of the best throws that Mac Jones made in his entire Patriots career.
32:06So once again, the ways, but before we even get into all the things you maximize with
32:10the guy like Drake May, who's got awesome mobility, the first thing you want to do is
32:14make sure that you were getting that ball downfield and over the middle outside as well,
32:18but the priority is getting over the middle where guys can make plays.
32:21I think Josh McDaniels is going to give him plenty of opportunities, whether it's play
32:24action, whether it's max protection, straight drop backs, whether it's both of those things
32:28or whether it's against the Blitz and you want to punish the defense for trying to heat
32:32up your quarterback.
32:33Josh McDaniels is going to give Drake May plenty of answers and opportunities to make
32:37big plays.
32:38It is like you said, it was Tom Brady's favorite was over the middle.
32:41Clearly Drake May's as well, both comfortable and you can see it too, right?
32:44Where you look at Mac Jones, he had the dig routes and the, you know, the quick hitters
32:48across the middle, that post route down, you know, down the seam, down the hashes that
32:53Drake may get hit.
32:54It's going to be a phenomenal fit with Josh McDaniels.
32:57The other part here that we'll get to right now is the movement in the pocket.
33:01And I know we're going to do design runs and that's really where you get the legs going,
33:05but moving the pocket with a mobile quarterback is crucial and can be crucial.
33:09He also did it with, uh, with Tom and he did it with, uh, with Mac a little bit here,
33:14but really you're going to be able to do that with this guy in Drake May.
33:18So take us through how they can move these pockets and sort of get him throwing from
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35:04How are they going to move the pocket with Drake May?
35:06How does Josh McDaniels move the pocket and use that to this offense's advantage?
35:11First of all, Michaela, be nice to me.
35:12I work very hard for you.
35:14This is tough to put together, but hey, we got it this time.
35:18All right.
35:19So one of the biggest things that we want to see from Drake May and Josh McDaniels is
35:23maximizing his mobility.
35:24A lot of that's going to come with moving the pocket.
35:27But the first thing that's going to come to a lot of people's heads is, okay, if you're
35:30moving the pocket, but you're not really an outside zone type of team, how are you
35:33going to do it, right?
35:34How does it look, right?
35:35Right.
35:36Well, first of all, they're not going to completely go away with the bootlegs and the outside
35:40zone action.
35:41But I think it's important to know there's different ways they can actually get to it.
35:44So first of all, I'm going to show some wide zone action because this was something we
35:48saw more of when Josh McDaniels was in Vegas.
35:50He had Jimmy Garoppolo, who came from an outside zone system.
35:54Josh Jacobs, who was very good in an outside zone system.
35:56And quarterbacks who were better throwing on the run.
35:58So we saw a little bit more of this.
35:59Here we're going to see the split zone action.
36:01Whenever you see a tight end off the ball close to the formation, expect that he's going
36:05to sift or basically move across the formation.
36:08That's just what we're going to get here.
36:10You're going to get the outside zone action, but the tight end is actually going to be
36:14on a slide route, wide open.
36:16Look at all that space because of the run action.
36:19Easy first down there.
36:20Now we're going to get counter wide zone action.
36:23So first you're going to get Jacoby Brissett motioning in.
36:26This is usually what their receivers do in the Josh McDaniels system or really in any
36:30system when you're running duo because you're trying to get this receiver inside to basically
36:35add another fit and make it so that the running back is one-on-one with the corner who was
36:40originally covering that receiver.
36:42But here they're going to make it look like counters.
36:44So you get the step, you get everybody kind of going this way, but it's actually wide
36:48zone with the running back going across.
36:50All that confusion gets the defense flowing one way, quarterback rolls out the other.
36:56Easy completion to Michael Mayer in the flat for an explosive game.
37:00Now we're going to get to gap action.
37:02It's not always outside zone.
37:04We actually saw a little bit of this from Drake May last season, but you can also move
37:07the pocket by pretending that you are running a gap scheme.
37:11Seeing this also from Josh McDaniels, like what we saw earlier on the Hunter Henry touchdown
37:15where you pull the guard and makes it look like a run, but you don't just have to go
37:18straight drop back here.
37:20You get the jet motion and the polar coming across a really common way that Josh McDaniels
37:24will run these long trap runs, but the running or the quarterback is going to split out on
37:30the bootleg after the tight end chips and just enough to slow down that edge rusher.
37:34Remember, the Jets with O.
37:35McDonald wasn't blocked at all.
37:37That little chip is very important.
37:39Now, that's how you can do it from under center.
37:41But with Drake May, you also expect he's going to be in the shotgun a little bit more because
37:45you want to be able to open up the run game and use the threat of his legs against defenses.
37:49But you don't just have to do it on things like RPOs and design runs.
37:52You can do it off of play action.
37:54So here.
37:56Get the motion from the tight end.
37:59That's basically a coverage identifier tells him that it's going to be his own coverage.
38:02Then you make it look like wide zone.
38:04Cam Newton boots out to the other side.
38:06Now you have one receiver coming across on the backside.
38:09You got the hitch open and you got a little bit of a corner route.
38:12Probably could eat either one of these.
38:13The fun part is with Drake May, there are no limits.
38:15He can hit the deep.
38:17He can hit the intermediate or he can hit the shallow here.
38:20Cam Newton throws deep, unfortunately does miss because the throw is late.
38:24But another example of how you can kind of make that work.
38:27Another example.
38:28I just really like this one.
38:29You actually have James White as an outside receiver in the bunch.
38:32So this is 21 personnel, more pony with the two real halfbacks.
38:36Get a little bit of an orbit motion to get the defense thinking they might be going one
38:39way, but you actually sprint out the other.
38:42This one actually was a solid completion to Nikhil Harry.
38:45So when it comes to moving the pocket, it's not all outside zone stuff.
38:49I still think we're going to see a lot of that, probably more than we did during the
38:52Mac Jones and the Tom Brady era.
38:54But as we saw in Vegas and as we saw with Cam Newton, Josh McDaniels has the kinds of
38:58plays in his playbook that would allow Drake May to get outside the pocket and really show
39:02off his arm on some of these bootleg actions.
39:04All right.
39:05So moving the pocket is okay.
39:08Fun ish for a mobile quarterback.
39:11The fun stuff is using them as a real runner.
39:14And that's when we went into this talking about this show prep.
39:17Taylor texted me and said, what's one thing you most want to see with the Drake May, Josh
39:22McDaniels?
39:23And when I said running the damn football with the quarterback, he mentioned it on the
39:27show with Julian Edelman about, you know, is he going to be a Josh Allen or is he just
39:31going to be a pocket passer?
39:32And we saw the Drake May can use his legs, 421 rushing yards in his rookie season, 7.8
39:38yards per carry, two touchdowns.
39:41I was just doing some quick research.
39:42Now the numbers ended up going down, but at one point this season, he had the second most
39:47rushing yards per attempt in a first season behind only Michael Vick.
39:52So, and that included running backs too.
39:54So Drake was gambling for a while.
39:56They dialed it down a little bit as we know down the stretch, but this dude can run and
40:01I think Josh McDaniels is going to take advantage of it.
40:03And I think Taylor, you do too.
40:05So how can they do it?
40:06How are they going to use this guy's legs to benefit the rest of their offense?
40:09Yeah.
40:10I didn't really talk about scrambling in this video because a lot of this is Josh McDaniels
40:14and scrambles are outside of structure, but a fun stat.
40:18So almost all of those yards you mentioned came on scrambles.
40:20Drake May led the NFL with like 395 scrambles from the time he started to the end of the
40:24season.
40:25I think Jaden Daniels was second with 380, you know, it was third, Justin Herbert with
40:31like 295.
40:32Wow.
40:33Okay.
40:34They were the only two quarterbacks over that span with 300 scramble yards and Drake had
40:39almost a hundred more than the next closest player.
40:41Wow.
40:42Absolutely insane.
40:43Ridiculous.
40:44I think it absolutely scoot, but we're hoping that next season we'll see a little bit more
40:48of it in structure on these kinds of designed runs.
40:51So first we're going to go over a couple of runs where there's not an option involved.
40:55This is just the quarterback straight up getting the ball.
40:57And remember when Josh McDaniels had Cam Newton, he took a ton of the run concepts that Cam
41:03Newton used in Carolina, brought them over and applied them to the Patriots.
41:07Pretty incredible.
41:08He did it, especially since Cam Newton got there late.
41:10So when I tell you they emptied the kitchen sink, we're talking speed option pistol.
41:15Like they were running a little bit of everything.
41:17I wanted to show you everything and I will later.
41:19But first let's look at a few of the runs that we know Drake make an execute from his
41:22time in college and the league.
41:24So in the league we saw that he can go out on sweeps.
41:27This is something you see a lot against man coverages and short yardage goal line or something
41:31or red zone situations.
41:33You know that Josh Allen uses it a ton against the Patriots.
41:37Drake may has experience running it at UNC.
41:39And so does Cam Newton when he was with the Patriots.
41:42Another sweep running right behind big Mike and one who doesn't need to block anybody
41:46because he's just hanging out in space because that worked so well.
41:50Another one you don't really want to run Drake up the middle very much.
41:53I understand that, but there are going to be some looks where the risk isn't that high
41:57and you want to give the defense different things to think about, especially if it's
42:00like third and two or something and you empty out the backfield and the defense is giving
42:04you a wide open look.
42:06So the draw play, make it look like you're going to pass, have the running back lead
42:09the way.
42:10Go behind him.
42:11Drake may not just a scrambler.
42:13He's a true ball carrier.
42:14He's a big guy.
42:15So if you try to tackle him high, he can run out of it.
42:17And as we know, he can also fight through contact.
42:19We've seen the same play with Cam Newton.
42:21This one is really cool because this was that go-go formation they used a lot this season
42:25where you have basically an eye, but it's off to the side with the quarterback off in
42:30his regular spot in the shotgun.
42:33And instead of then pitching it out to the running back, you have Jakob Johnson leading
42:37the way.
42:38Basically a quarterback.
42:39I so little delay from Cam Newton.
42:41He sticks his shoulder down and as big as he is, he rumbles into the end zone again.
42:45You want to be careful doing this with Drake, but if he puts on a little bit more muscle
42:49in the off season, he's already a big guy, but more body armor, I'd be for it.
42:53Now we get to more of the read option.
42:56The most simple, straightforward version of the read option is the zone read.
42:59It's inside zone.
43:01Quarterback reads the unblocked defender, decides whether to keep it or whether to hand
43:04it off to the running back.
43:06And it was the first time we actually saw Drake keep it on a design run.
43:09Von Miller completely bites in a short yardage situation.
43:12I think this was fourth and two.
43:14Drake keeps it, moves the chains there.
43:16Now we've also seen plenty of zone read back in the Cam Newton days.
43:20Here he uses it against the Chargers.
43:22Joey Bosa bites inside.
43:24Second level defender can't get to Cam.
43:26Big play, easy first down.
43:28Now gap read.
43:29This is where it gets a little more interesting because what makes it even harder to defend
43:33a quarterback read option is when you have pulling guards because defenders are taught,
43:38especially at the second level, oh, I see a pulling guard.
43:41I follow that guy because he's going to take me to the ball.
43:44But when the quarterback or the running back can keep it, you don't know if that puller
43:48is taking you to the right spot.
43:50So here we're going to see an option where now the bills usually pull their tackle.
43:55The Patriots more pull their guards because their tackles are typically bigger guys.
43:59It's a little bit further away to go, but Deion Dawkins is a beast here.
44:02The pull in the running back are going the same way.
44:04Josh Allen's going to read the defender.
44:06He's flying downhill.
44:08So because one second level defenders, what did I say?
44:12Flying flying to the hole.
44:14No one even considers the fact Josh Allen might keep it.
44:16He gets a huge scramble right down the pipe.
44:19Now another play that we've actually seen with Cam Newton pulled Joe Tooney.
44:24He's going the same way as James White.
44:26Defender doesn't respect the fact that Cam could possibly keep the ball.
44:30Explosive run isn't even touched until he gets near the sideline.
44:33Now where it gets interesting is when you get bash action.
44:36Bash just means back away, back away from the puller.
44:40So now the pullers are actually leading the way for the quarterback instead of the running
44:45back.
44:46And this is what can really drive defenses crazy, especially if you mix in some motion.
44:50So once again, Josh Allen is looking this way, like he's reading this on black defender
44:56and he is, but he also knows that if he keeps it, there's a polar backside leading the way
45:00for him.
45:01And then you'll see the tight end.
45:03Instead of keeping this guy unblocked, there's a little influence spot to make him think
45:07that he's being engaged, but he's just making time for the tackle to get there.
45:12Tight end gets to the second level.
45:13Josh Allen is able to run into the end zone again, barely even touched.
45:19Now Cam Newton running the same counter bash concept.
45:23The puller is not going towards the same side as the running back.
45:26He's going to the quarterback.
45:28You're looking that way.
45:29Like you're reading that defender instead, keep the ball run behind.
45:33You're pulling guard.
45:34Nice little scramble there from Cam Newton.
45:37And then there were also some other concepts.
45:39Like I mentioned, I really liked, there was like some speed option where the quarterback
45:42runs like he's pretty much more of like an outside zone kind of situation, pitch it based
45:47on where the defender reads.
45:49Also we saw some pistol action.
45:50We also seen that with like Jaden Daniels, where they'll go with a duo option where you
45:56have the running back in the pistol.
45:58The quarterback is reading the edge defender.
46:00You either just let it on the dive.
46:02If the defender decides to squeeze, if he stays put, you have different options.
46:06So I'm kind of, I'm getting a little bit in the weeds there.
46:08I got really excited going through this and I had to kind of contain myself, but pretty
46:13much everything that we've seen from Drake main college, we've also seen during the Cam
46:17Newton days.
46:18And like you mentioned, Josh McDaniels brought up Josh Allen and saying, Oh, maybe we can
46:22do different things with Drake.
46:24Those are some of the concepts that we've seen from Josh Allen also translate to the
46:27Cam Newton playbook.
46:28I mean, this is why the, the Josh McDaniels idea is so exciting.
46:33And now a lot of, a lot of guys do this.
46:35Alex Van Pelt mentioned, you know, you can only run what your guys are comfortable with,
46:39but Josh has done it to like the massive, the most extent where he had Tom Brady, one
46:44of the least mobile quarterbacks in football ran the offense successfully that way.
46:48And then, yeah, the offense wasn't great overall under Cam Newton, but being able to, you mentioned,
46:54you know, in a year, but you also, he came late too.
46:57He signed in June and then they basically revamped and brought that entire you know,
47:02the run action into the offense with Cam Newton was when able to was able to get it done that
47:07way too.
47:08So it's good stuff.
47:09And I didn't even touch real quick.
47:10I didn't even touch on Jacoby percent either, because obviously the Houston game, he was
47:14using even more unconventional looks because Jacoby was running from under center.
47:18So they would have like an offset back in this really weird under center look.
47:22He would fake a jet sweep or he'd fake a pitch and then just go out the back door and no
47:26one knew he had the ball because all the action was going the other way.
47:29So I know there's some questions about Josh and the system, but when it comes to running
47:33with Drake may, if that's what you're looking forward to, maybe they'll do a little bit
47:37less because Cam had to run to be successful because he couldn't throw.
47:40But I think we'll see a lot more of Drake keeping it in some critical situations.
47:43And that's where we look at our final section of the film is these layered concepts, RPOs.
47:50You know, you also have a triple option in here, which is, which will be exciting, but
47:53that's where Mike Vrabel mentioned the offense.
47:55And we want to do things that our players are comfortable with.
47:58We're not just going to run RPOs just because we want to run RPOs.
48:01We're going to run RPOs because our guys are comfortable doing so.
48:04And I think we'll be able to do it here with the Patriots, with Drake Bay.
48:07So take us through these layered concepts that the Patriots and Josh and Daniels could
48:11run.
48:12Yeah.
48:13And we've kind of seen the Patriots.
48:14We saw the Patriots dabble a little bit in RPOs.
48:16Most of them were bubbles.
48:17I'm ignoring those because those are very easy to install.
48:19They're pretty straightforward.
48:20I'm more interested in the downfield RPOs because that's where I think Drake is a real,
48:25real problem because I think he reads these out pretty well.
48:28He's got a quick release.
48:29He can adjust his arm angles.
48:30We're going to see that a little bit right here on this one to Demario Douglas.
48:35He's going to pull it.
48:36See that void in the defense, even though there's a defender right in his face, he's
48:39able to get it outside arm to Demario Douglas for a chunk of yards on first down.
48:44We actually saw this.
48:45This is with Mac Jones.
48:47Even he was throwing some downfield RPOs, not a ton, but they were in the playbook.
48:51Going to get a slant here from Nelson Aguilar, a little flat route here from Jacoby Brissett.
48:58Mac's going to pull it.
48:59Nice throw over the middle.
49:00All the space this creates, that's why I like the downfield RPOs.
49:04It's one thing, okay, I have to defend a bubble screen, but really, what is a linebacker supposed
49:08to do when he's this far away and you're throwing that far behind him?
49:11It's pretty much indefensible as long as the offensive line doesn't get a penalty.
49:15I'd love to see more of those kinds of actions.
49:17Even Cam Newton and Akil Harry, oh yeah, this was actually the game, but in that Seahawks
49:22game, I remember the kill took a big shot to the head.
49:24It was a pretty nasty hit, but that was another chunk play on a similar concept, but we also
49:29saw different types of route combinations.
49:31Here you're going to get the slant from Julian Edelman, but you're going to get an out.
49:34I believe it's from Demir Bird here, so we get the slant there.
49:38Cam probably going to hit this, but he waited a little bit longer on the out to Demir Bird.
49:43Just again, some diversity of concepts, not just all slants, which is pretty much all
49:46a drag through.
49:47You get some different things here.
49:49Also, we saw when Jimmy Garoppolo was in Vegas with Josh, a lot of these under center slant
49:55throws because what the 49ers would do a lot because they were in so much outside zone.
50:00Teams knew it, and they started to anticipate it.
50:02Backside defenders would start to get greedy the way they would punish that, especially
50:06from under center because you're not really expecting an RPO.
50:08Not a lot of teams run them, and if they do, it's like a smoke screen, so what they do
50:12is line up in an under center outside zone.
50:15Look, this defender kind of biting just a little bit too much creates that void for
50:19Devontae Adams right behind him.
50:22Explosive play for number 17.
50:23Would love to see more of those.
50:25I know the Bills use a ton of those, so I'd like to see those incorporated a little bit
50:28more, but also the triple option where you completely maximize your quarterback's ability
50:32to punish the defense.
50:34You can either say, oh, I'm going to go to the bubble screen right here and capitalize
50:38on a number advantage, which he absolutely could have, or he can say, I'm going to read
50:42this side of the field because with these nub formations or when the tight end is the
50:46only receiver to one side, when you don't see anybody to this side of the field, it's
50:51basically the offense saying, hell, yes, we're faking this run.
50:55He has the option to hand it off, but because there's no one really outside, Josh Allen
50:58is most likely going to win this battle, so we're going to see bubble screen to the bottom,
51:02but he's not looking there.
51:04He's reading this defender, got crashes.
51:06Josh Allen has plenty of space to work with running the end zone, big boy, and you know
51:10where we've seen that before?
51:12Cam freaking Newton.
51:14Same concept.
51:15You have the detached or nasty split from the bunch, you get the bubble screen, and
51:19then you're going to get the tight end isolated.
51:21Although in this example, Ryan Izzo, it was so weird watching this, by the way, because
51:26Ryan Izzo moves so much, or not Ryan Izzo, oh my God, oh yeah, it is Ryan Izzo.
51:30It was Ryan Izzo, yeah.
51:31I wanted to make sure I wasn't saying Larry, but he moves so much differently than Hunter
51:35Henry because he's a little more stiff by the time he got to New England, and Ryan Izzo
51:38was a little looser, so I'm looking at this, I'm like, damn, Hunter Henry looks a lot different,
51:42but I forgot different 85.
51:45That same type of idea, zone read here, Joey Bosa bites down too far, defender takes forever
51:51to read it, get a lot of space to the outside, and because we know that Drake May has the
51:57speed to get to the edge on these types of concepts, because although this isn't actually
52:01a triple option, I think he just doesn't like the slant window, he says, you know what,
52:06that's fine, I'll just keep it, tuck it, and then I'll get to the edge myself, so Drake
52:11enough speed to get outside to punish guys with his athletic ability, so I'd like to
52:17see the layers where he could pass it, he can run it, he can hand it off, I just want
52:22to see on a consistent basis, even the handoffs, like Kendrick Ford was a massive gadget player
52:27for them on reverses, end around, sweeps, and things like that, so I just want a type
52:31of offense where if the offense is on schedule, on at least 40, 30% of the plays, everything
52:37is on the table, the defense doesn't know if Drake May is going to keep it, if it's
52:41going to be a running back, if it's going to be a skill player, what have you, that's
52:45what to me is truly maximizing this offense, motion's a big part of it as well, Josh isn't
52:50big with motion, he's kind of middle of the pack, but he uses it with purpose, I'd like
52:54to see a little more of the short motion, the things that we've seen from more of the
52:57West Coast offense, it's just because they give receivers such an advantage of a head
53:01start speed-wise, not being able to press them, what have you, but yeah, a lot of ways
53:05that we've seen from the past with Cam Newton, with the Raiders, even with Mac Jones, that
53:10McDaniels has a very diverse playbook, I don't have any doubt that he's going to have the
53:16ability to maximize Drake May, it's more going to be about how much Drake can take on, and
53:21what the kind of, I would say, checkpoints are for his development.
53:24Can you believe in my glory days of Division 3 college football that we also ran that triple
53:29option where we had the read option, then we had the bubble out, and you read, no, where's
53:33leverage this way, that way, I had the ability to pull the ball, I didn't do it that often
53:37at all, but technically, it was in my repertoire, but no, that's exciting, it looks like this
53:43is slam dunk strong, we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves, we got ahead of ourselves last
53:47year, but it feels like these two together can be a good pairing, with Drake's massive
53:52skill set, strong arm, throwing down the middle, running the football, his ability to take
53:57in a ton of information, which he did last year, and kind of use that, obviously it'll
54:01be different, new system, a lot of learning to do, but year two jump is exciting for quarterback
54:06Drake May.
54:07So, believe that's going to do it here for our film room on Drake May, Taylor, thank
54:12you for taking the time, cutting that up, knowing what to talk about and what to do,
54:17I appreciate it, it makes my job easier, and I know that the fans of the show like it too,
54:21so this was fun, that is Drake May and how Josh McDaniels and him can work together on
54:26this offense.
54:28I mentioned this morning on the show that we were going to do a mailbag today, we're
54:31pushing that to tomorrow, we wanted to get as much film in as possible on Drake and Josh,
54:38so tomorrow we're going to look at Terrell Williams, Patriots new defensive coordinator,
54:43a little bit of backstory on him in Detroit, and then we're also going to take your mailbag
54:48questions after that, so we'll re-ask for those on Twitter, we'll publish that again,
54:53throw them in as many as possible and come back here tomorrow to ask those questions
54:56as well.
54:57We're TBD on a time, or do we know what time we're going tomorrow?
54:59I believe 5.30.
55:01Okay, look out for 5.30, if it changes, head over to Twitter and we will keep you guys
55:06updated on that, we'll keep you here, updated on the channel as well, so thank you for working
55:11with us as we continue working through this Patriots offseason, we always appreciate you
55:15watching, so until next time, take care of yourselves, take care of, I need to find the
55:21outro before I do this, and it's gone, where is it, where's our outro, I guess I'm just
55:26sending it, our outro's gone, so take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and
55:32we'll see you tomorrow, peace out everyone.