McDaniels comes from a system specializing in the efficient utilization of receivers that puts every single target option out as a receiver. He spreads the field. Josh McDaniels use a modified version of the Erhardt offense. He use its philosophy as basis for creating his playbook. “Pass to score, run to win,” this offense has been considered a run first, play-action offense. But the modern Erhardt strategy relies on pass to control the football. Erhardt commonly ran the system in his later years spread the field. In this offense, terminology is typically spoken in Numbers as opposed to the West Coast offense which is typically spoken in Colors. From the original Ron Erhardt offense remain the passing attacks which are mostly vertical and are set up through play actions. The Pats offense attempt to spread the field and isolate defenders using several formations and personnel groupings. After the New England Patriots 2004 season, coach Bill Belicheck and Josh McDaniels also went to Gainesville, Florida to meet with Urban Meyer, to discuss the spread option with him. McDaniels said to be ready to run a balanced but aggressive offense: “The best offenses that I’ve had an opportunity to be a part of always maintained really solid balance and always had an opportunity to attack the defense in multiple ways,”
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What bums me out most about this, is that my favorite part of mini-camps, especially right after the draft, is seeing all the new players and their choices in equipment. For the past three years we’ve done the “Rookie Eyeball Test” posts and they’re always a highlight of the post-draft void. Alas we can do nothing but wait unless one of the reporters to the left got a good shot of Solder, Ras-I or their rookie pals.
