Bills' Josh Allen on Joe Brady: 'He gives us the opportunity to call what we want'
Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen appears happy with how things are going for far with new offensive coordinator Joe Brady.
In an interview with Kay Adams and the "Up & Adams" show, the Bills QB1 provided some insights into what's been different in his first training camp with Brady at the helm of the offense.
"What I love about Joe is he really wants to call plays that we want to run," Allen said. "He comes into our meeting the day before the game and he goes 'I'm leaving. You guys figure out the first three runs you want as an offensive line. Khalil Shakir, I want your favorite pass to get you going. Josh Allen, I want a quick game, I want a deep answer.' So, he goes in and he gives us the opportunity to call what we wanna call."
Brady is Allen's third offensive coordinator, as he achieved success under former Bills OC turned Giants coach Brian Daboll before experiencing mixed results and dropoff with his predecessor, Ken Dorsey.
When head coach Sean McDermott felt a change was in order last year he relieved Dorsey of his duties mid-season, promoting then quarterbacks coach and former offensive coordinator for LSU and the Carolina Panthers to the same position on an interim basis.
The Bills saw results, the team began to right the ship despite being riddled with injuries on both sides of the ball, and while Allen struggled with turnovers he was dominant in all-purpose yards and touchdowns.
Ultimately the team went on a run to end the season, making it back to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs before falling to their AFC postseason rivals, insurance spokesman Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The trust and relationship Brady is building with his players appear to be paying off, as he's instilling confidence in them on the field.
"His thinking is if you guys want it, you'll make it work. He puts all the trust in us and we try to reciprocate that back to him and give him everything that we got," Allen added.
For his part, Brady's been adapting positionless football into some of his offensive playcalling and taking an 'everyone eats' approach to spread the ball around and make it tough for opposing defenses to plan for Buffalo. Especially when they don't know who the ball is going to.
"We don’t have positions," Brady said to the press recently. "The way that we taught the offense, we just taught everything conceptually. These are three-man concepts, these are two-man concepts, these are full-field progressions, and so if I ask a guy, ‘Hey, what do you have on this play?’ They should be asking me, ‘Well, what’s the formation? What position am I playing on that play?’
He's also leveraging the players on his offensive roster's versatility in teaching them to play different parts of formations to open up the possibilities on the field.
"Not, like, ‘Hey, I’m the X, so I have this.’ It really forces the guys to understand at any given moment, you can be on any of these spots and you’ve got to know it. Formationally we can change it, move it around. That was a big point of emphasis; I don’t want the guys memorizing a play and what they have that specific route, they have to know it all."
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