Early returns on five new offenses across the NFL
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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Summary
When a team goes out and brings in a new playcaller during the offseason, be it the head coach or offensive coordinator, they're telling us one thing: We need new ideas on offense. One-quarter of the league did that this offseason, and five of those teams have stood out for one reason or another over the first month of the season...the Patriots, Bears, Jaguars, Seahawks and Cowboys. What are the early returns on the new ideas for those five teams? Robert Mays and Ollie Connolly from The Read Optional dive deep into the quintet on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:48 Dillon Gabriel takes the reins in Cleveland
8:18 New England Patriots
22:05 Chicago Bears
40:58 Jacksonville Jaguars
53:21 Seattle Seahawks
1:10:40 Dallas Cowboys
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| 1:44.8 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 1:46.0 | Really fun conversation today with our old buddy, Ali Connolly, from the Read Optional Newsletter and Podcast. |
| 1:51.8 | Ali does a fantastic job breaking down all things football. |
| 1:54.5 | He is like a true sickos NFL analyst, and we are digging into all of that stuff today. |
| 2:00.0 | We're talking about five offenses that have incorporated some new ideas coming to this season |
| 2:06.2 | via a new play call. |
| 2:07.9 | A new offensive system. |
| 2:09.4 | The Patriots, the Bears, the Jaguars, the Seahawks, and the Cowboys. |
| 2:13.8 | All five of those teams have new play callers this year. |
| 2:16.2 | We wanted to take some time four weeks into the season just to check in. How is this going? What are they, what are these |
| 2:22.4 | teams doing well? What are they doing poorly? What can improve? How have them, how has the |
| 2:26.3 | marriage been between some of these play callers and the quarterbacks? We talked about all of that today |
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