New Offensive Scemes/Coaching (1 Viewer)

[Musesboy]

There are a number of teams that will have a new coach and/or offensive coordinator in 2006. What Fantasy Football implications might those changes have? I have heard and read comments from a lot of players who say that they are trying to learn new schemes this year.

I am sure that every offense will change its playbook at least a little, but what is the outlook for players that are learning a completely new scheme? Should we expect the team to improve throughout the season as the players adapt to the schemes in game situations? Will it make any difference at all, or will all of that be sorted out by the time the season starts?

Will some players start slowly and have low trade value due to the changes, giving us cheap options to target that may emerge as they get more familiar with their system?

Thinking back, can anyone remember how their own team was affected by this in the past?

What teams are in this situation for the coming season? Here are the ones that I can think of, although I may have missed a few or be wrong on some:

Buffalo Bills - New coach and OC

Denver Broncos - New OC

Detroit Lions - New coach and OC

Green Bay Packers - New coach and OC

Minnesota Vikings - New coach and OC

Kansas City Chiefs - New coach and OC

Miami Dolphins - New OC

New Orleans Saints - New coach and OC

New York Jets - New coach and OC

San Francisco 49ers - New OC

St. Louis Rams - New coach and OC

Washington Redskins - New OC

Some teams will have new QBs learning the existing scheme, while guys like Culpepper, Kitna and Brees will be on new teams that are learning a new scheme.

Your thoughts?

 

[Bri]

KC has said that offensively they're attempting to keep things the same even with the new staff. There were a few articles this last week on how Herm is focussing on the D.

Bills-How could they not improve?

GB-Isn't McCarthy keeping the same system GBs used for Favre's career?

Broncos-Shanny's system, not sure how much say the new OC has

Lions-like the Bills, hard not to improve

Vikes-lost alot of players and that should be the biggest impact IMO.

Jets-also new linemen, maybe new QB, maybe new RB.....could seem like it's all new by September

49ers-passing was atrocious at times last year, if they can throw it'd probably be an improvement

Saints-They've had a good offense with Horn, Brooks, and Deuce over the last 4-5 years. It might actually be difficult for them to maintain that level. A little bump I'd expect and then next year they're back to being a top 10 O. Also, I don't like what I hear about how they'll use Bush. When Payton got creative in NY it drove Fassel nuts and eventually he took over the playcalling from Payton. I guess "cute" would be the word. He got too cute. I'm afraid he's gonna do that with Bush. I'd also like to know that Brees will recover 100% and not remind us of Pennington.

Rams-Linehan is no slouch but Martz was fantastic IMO. I'd expect the WRs #s to drop but more running and more(hard to be less) production from the TE. Could be a "draw" here but again maybe a bump and the following year they're back to form.

Skins-Gibbs IIRC is also a student of "the Coryell school" so Saunders should feel pretty comfy instilling his O. What is his O and what was Vermeil's though? Portis is already a top back and Cooley gave them some sweet TE production last year. I'm not sure how much those two can improve in an LJ/Tony type system. It's interesting that they got WRs in FA and KC's WRs were hardly productive outside of Kennison. Like Kennison it's not hard to foresee Moss being the WR but what about Lloyd and Randel El? IIRC Gibbs had 3 1000 yard WRs in the 80s. I don't know if that's possible to repeat. I sorta feel like he caught lightning with that.