Improving On Arians’ Offense
May 18th, 2020
Predicts Bucs offensive look.
There’s a lot of chatter of late about how park-violating, home-invading Bucs quarterback Tom Brady will meld with Bucco Bruce Arians and his offense.
Will Arians adapt the Patriots’ offense? Will Brady simply learn Arians’ offense?
A guy who knows something about offenses and the Patriots Way, former Bucs quarterback and Belicheats football staffer Chris Simms has an idea.
Simms, while speaking on “PFT Live” with co-host the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, explained how he is a huge fan of Arians’ offense. Simms believes Brady will learn Arians’ offense but Arians will incorporate some of the things Brady does best.
As a result, Simms said to look for Arians’ offense to be even more diverse and dynamic.
“Bruce Arians, he thinks his offense is special,” Simms began. “And it is. It is one of the more creative, aggressive offenses in football over the last 10 years. The results speak for themselves.
“You add that Mike, you know, the no-risk-it-no-biscuit, push-the-ball-down-the-field aggressive nature and accompany it with the Edleman, Wes Welker-type plays Brady ran in New England, let along a few other things they will do… with [Rob] Gronkowski, I do think it will be a nice blend.
“I do think the meat and potatoes of the offense will be Bruce Arians. But you are definitely going to see some of those plays where, ‘Hey, Brady feels comfortable in them. Brady knows these types of plays better than Bruce Arians and Byron Leftwich, he can teach them.” And they are great ways to get easy completions and you know Brady really knows how to execute those plays because he has mastered them for years and years.”
This makes the most sense.
Joe thinks Arians is playing this smart. With no time to get on the field to work out with teammates in a traditional sense, getting the entire offense — some two dozen players — to learn Brady’s former offense in virtual workouts would be borderline asinine.
It’s a lot better (and smarter) for Brady to pick up Arians’ offense and then Arians and Brady can work in elements of the Belicheat offense that Brady likes.
May 18th, 2020 at 2:07 pm
2019 Bucs were, by far, the best offense in team history – and were #3 in scoring in the NFL, the highest ever for a Bucs team.
Improving on that is very very unlikely. The idea, obviously, is reducing turnovers, but in terms of yards and points, it’s extremely unlikely this new offense will come very close to what the record setting 2019 offense did.
May 18th, 2020 at 2:15 pm
Everything since Brady has signed has indicated that it’s the Arians offense with Brady’s strengths and preferences incorporated. Not much new here, although the sports talkers have to find something to talk about I guess.
May 18th, 2020 at 2:19 pm
Joe
Stop with the “park-violating, home-invading” descriptor for TB. It’s a read- stopper for me much like your descriptor for Peter King was.
It’s snarky and adolescent.
Thanks for the rest which I read every day on your excellent website.
May 18th, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Reducing turnovers will be a huge season changing improvement. Those 30 interceptions did our season in so reducing the turnovers and getting 2/3 of the yardage and touchdowns will be an improvement. Anyone who thinks those 30 interceptions arent important just needs to see the post someone put here that says that Ryan Griffin is making more money than Jameis Winston this year. Wow what a huge dropoff for Jameis. I do wish him well but stop turning it over man!!!
May 18th, 2020 at 2:29 pm
Nick2 Says:
May 18th, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Reducing turnovers will be a huge season changing improvement. Those 30 interceptions did our season in so reducing the turnovers and getting 2/3 of the yardage and touchdowns will be an improvement.
BINGO!!!!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!!
May 18th, 2020 at 2:33 pm
This sound reasonable. Unlike many of the stories Tom picks the players, the plays, is GM on is off days, he scouts the draft in his spare time, and negotiates the salary cap in his sleep.
May 18th, 2020 at 2:37 pm
Get ready for the redundant chant of “Stale Buscuit & Herd the Sheep”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 18th, 2020 at 2:38 pm
So El Buco, How do you feel about the coach? Please tell us!!!!!!!!!
May 18th, 2020 at 2:44 pm
It’s time to make a run for it. Go Bucs!
May 18th, 2020 at 3:07 pm
The improvement that matters is in the win column…
If somehow he throws for 6000 yards and 40 TDs and still a losing season, means VERY little.
Now produce 10-14 wins no matter how they get them, contenders and respected WINNERS!
May 18th, 2020 at 3:32 pm
I’m hoping that when Jerry Jones finds ndog el buco unrealisto is with him and he can kill two trolls at the same time.👊👊👊
May 18th, 2020 at 4:28 pm
At Joe, with all this talk about the teams not being able to meet and players aren’t getting the reps they need to build their timing can’t the players themselves go to a park (that are now open) or one of their backyards to do that?
May 18th, 2020 at 4:52 pm
What will six to ten more minutes of offense mean in total yards? Without 36 turnovers by the blind Winston we will find out.
May 18th, 2020 at 4:58 pm
“were, by far, the best offense in team history – and were #3 in scoring in the NFL, the highest ever for a Bucs team.”
By far? Bwaahhaaaahaaa. #3 in scoring and # ONE in turnovers and historically bad numbers for pick sixes!!!!
Bottom line…the Bucs were #3 in scoring which may be the best for a Bucs team but it’s still SEVEN DASH NINE!!! LOSING!!!
We went into the final two games AT HOME with a chance for a winning record. Our defense was the top run defense in the league and by the final two games our young DB’s were playing well. ROJO posted over 100 yards in offense in each of the final two games and Perriman played lights out with over 100 yards in both those games.
And how many points did our vaunted offense put up in the final halves of those two games…THREE…JW could not get one ball across the goal line so lets put it all on the ROOKIE kicker.
The best offense by far could manage three points in two halves of play AT HOME that could have stopped our losing streak and given us a winning season.
May 18th, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Important post….
Flock of sheep
Featured snippet from the web
“With sheep, the word is flock. There is no such thing as a herd of sheep.”
May 18th, 2020 at 5:18 pm
If Brady is even 80% of his former self and stays healthy (both big ifs), he will shatter every single season (good) record for this team outside of passing yards. If the running game is horrible again, then he may get the passing yard record as well.
May 18th, 2020 at 5:18 pm
David Smythe
No doubt Brady and these guys have been putting in work somewhere. Even after park burglary and home invasion.
May 18th, 2020 at 5:45 pm
Brady knows these types of plays better than Bruce Arians and Byron Leftwich, he can teach them, but only if they put their Ego’s aside.
May 18th, 2020 at 6:02 pm
If Brady was throwing with ME13 CG14 Gronk OJ etc do we suppose we’d even know about it.
How does the league enforce these things. The nation is only closed in populated areas there has never been a time when there haven’t been literally thousands of athletic fields available in bumfuk…as in say…Montana.
How hard is it for these NFL guys to hide and practice. Do we believe we KNOW how much ANY NFL player has been secretly playing catch with another?
May 18th, 2020 at 6:10 pm
K2 Says:
May 18th, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Important post….
Flock of sheep
Featured snippet from the web
“With sheep, the word is flock. There is no such thing as a herd of sheep.”
Herd is a verb…….herding the sheep……..yes….herding the flock of sheep….
This is where shepherd comes from:
noun
a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
May 18th, 2020 at 6:33 pm
The more difficult element is timing. The good news is Mike Evans is a big target and Godwin can catch anything that’s even remotely close.
May 18th, 2020 at 7:10 pm
The offense that i saw last year did not look like an Arians offense from his previous incarnation.
Previously there was a lot more of a run game, and there were screens too.
It will look different this year because we have a QB better at reading defenses and seeing through his progressions.
The deeper pass will still be number one of the progression, but it will not be forced as much and Godwin getting passes in stride will grow that part of the game.
May 18th, 2020 at 7:33 pm
Little bo peep, losing her sheep. Not a good shepherd AT ALL… she’s in her own echo chamber, lost. Quite harmless and useless at this point.
I find the discussion of Brady learning Arians and the O somewhat a non-issue. He’s literally the best QB in NFL history with 20 yrs experience. Pretty sure he can read, process and execute any playbook with minimal effort. I bet he could draw up the route on his hand like my old man did when I was 6 and we’d have success with him leading the way.
Go Bucs!
In BA I Trust!
May 18th, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Left out ‘paddle throwing’. I like it.
May 18th, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Sorry Monk, I have to disagree w/your comment.
I generally like Joe’s writing, especially his snarky adolescence.
This is football we’re talking about, a children’s game.
May 19th, 2020 at 10:56 am
“park-violating, home-invading Bucs quarterback”
This moniker is REALLY getting old!!
May 19th, 2020 at 11:01 am
And to think, it’s only May! 🙂
May 20th, 2020 at 2:25 am
LOL