In the 1st 15 or so scripted plays you establish your O game plan and it's new to the D. Then they get a idea of what you're trying to do. After that is when you build on what was successful and it's harder to be successful doing those same things.
You then rely on the talent to change things up a bit. We saw that in the 1st 2 games when we still had our talent healthy.
24 is going to be a season of what ifs. Mostly what if we had stayed relatively healthy. I'm not a DA fan and knew we would have needed a different HC to really get far, BUT if this team could have stayed healthy I believe we would have won the south and made the playoffs even with DA as HC