How onerous will or not it’s for the Patriots game-plan towards Miami’s first-year head coach, Mike McDaniel?
Conversely, how effectively can the Dolphins game-plan towards a brand new Patriots offense, and an unknown play caller?
“That’s the sixty-four thousand question on everything,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick mentioned throughout a video name Sunday. “Opening day is opening day. Nobody’s really shown much in preseason.”
McDaniel was a long-time assistant of Kyle Shanahan, each in San Francisco, in addition to Atlanta. The previous 5 seasons, McDaniel was the 49ers offensive coordinator. While he didn’t truly name the performs — Shanahan did — he’ll definitely convey elements of that offense.
He’ll even have a number of new weapons to work with within the Dolphins arsenal, particularly Tyreek Hill, who arrived by way of commerce from Kansas City.
As for the Patriots, they confirmed glimpses of a brand new offense with an outdoor zone working scheme. It didn’t go notably effectively throughout coaching camp and the preseason, nevertheless it’s a good wager the Pats didn’t utterly present their hand on what’s in retailer for the offense in 2022.
“The cards will be on the table Sunday. Like every opening game, I’m sure we’ll have to make some adjustments once we see what they’re doing, and vice versa,” mentioned Belichick. “That’s always the way it is. So, you have to leave room for a little bit of the unknown, things they’ve been working on they haven’t shown, or things specifically game-planned for you that you’ve had trouble with at some point.”
The Patriots are heading to Miami on Tuesday to get higher acclimated to the steamy situations anticipated, and utterly zone in on the Dolphins. It’s a certain wager each groups have been prepping for Week 1 for fairly a while.
“They’ve had a lot of time to prepare for the game. Several months, just as have we,” mentioned Belichick. “So, there’s a big part of the unknown. I think all that will clear up in the first two to three weeks of the season when teams settle into their style of play that they want to bank on.”
The Dolphins maybe face much more of a thriller with the Patriots. Belichick nonetheless wouldn’t acknowledge who’s doing the offensive game-planning, to not point out who was going to be the play caller. He wasn’t about to unveil any particulars per week earlier than the sport.
“We have a good staff. We have a lot of people on both sides of the ball. Everybody contributes,” mentioned Belichick. “Ultimately, I have responsibility for everything that happens on the field.”
Matt Patricia certain seemed like he was calling performs through the preseason. Whether he’s or not, the Dolphins haven’t any intel on how he likes to name performs, or precisely what the Patriots offense will probably be.
What’s no secret is what former Chief wideout Hill brings to the desk, together with Jaylen Waddle and Cedrick Wilson, even when they weren’t used a lot within the preseason. The Patriots are going to must fight Tua Tagovailoa and all of the pace he now has at receiver.
“League-wide the playing time for a lot the key players on every team is low, so it’s hard to tell how some of the players are going to be used,” mentioned Belichick. “But we know the guys they’re going to feature. So we’ll see how it goes.”
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