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Clearly we aren't getting this guy as an OC, but this is the type of guy who we need here. This whole interview is pretty good, but these two different responses to questions show to me why this guy is a rising star and a stud. He's not out here thinking he's God's gift to coaching or he knows the only way to do it. Dude is innovative, but simple. Not married to one way of doing things, and willing to adapt to the personnel on the roster. We need someone running the offense with this outlook for sure.
Is there an in-game moment that you’re most proud of?
I think the play that stands out the most this year, to me, is the touchdown at the end of the half against Alabama. I study the touchdowns across the NFL every week. That’s my Wednesday thing. I study the biggest plays, the touchdowns, and that play was hitting for touchdowns in three straight weeks. So we had put that play in the Thursday before. We had repped it once in practice. We repped it once in a walk-through, and it was the perfect opportunity, the perfect play. We got the perfect look. And to see that to come full circle, just to see that, ‘Hey, this was working for the Raiders, this was working for the Texans, this was working for these people,’ and for that to come in and work. And then you see last week, you’ll see we scored a touchdown in the back of the end zone to Justin Jefferson, and you rewind back a few weeks ago, you’ll see Mike Thomas score the exact same touchdown against the Tampa Bay Bucs. It’s a copycat league, and we did the same thing in New Orleans. We studied what other teams were doing. We all do it in the offseason. So if you had an opportunity to see what was working across the NFL and across college throughout the week, we were going to do it. Those are what’s fun, is seeing it having success at that level, having an idea, matching it up against defenses that you’re seeing from that standpoint and then seeing your guys being able to execute it just like they’re seeing some of their favorite players do. That’s what’s been kind of fun and rewarding.
Joe Brady InterviewI think what I’ve learned from some of the best coaches, it’s not about running a system and just plugging it in and saying, ‘this is what we’re doing.’ It’s about finding out what they do well and running those plays and putting them in the position to have success. I think from an offensive staff standpoint, I think that collectively, we did a great job, and it’s showed this year of putting those guys in the best position to have success.
So the system allows it to be fluid?
Yes. And what the system is, I have no idea. The system is going to change year to year. It’s all a product of what we have. If you’ve got four dynamic tight ends or four dynamic running backs, you have an extremely dual-threat quarterback—I don’t know what that system entails, but it’s our job as coaches to figure that out and work with things in the spring and fall and find a niche of who we’re going to be as an offense and what our system’s going to look like and kind of go from there.