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He knows the type of defense he wants and it’s the defense that gives him the most struggles as a play caller. He won’t reveal what that is, but I think someone said something about him struggling against 3-4’s before.
He's spoken about defenses that he's anticipated causing him trouble. I specifically recall him talking about the Panthers who run a 3-4 defense. On a side note, he's mentioned specifically about how they have so many different ways to get after the QB. This key. More below.
Wants to be a physical team that plays with tempo and stresses the defense through shifts and tempo.
This is shifts, hot routes and audibles. This requires an intelligent QB. Based on what we've seen from Rattler and Carr, and I don't think either one of them can operate his offense in this manner. Both are dog water at pre-snap reads and once the shift begins you can't audible. Carr especially. He's arrogant in the sense that he knows what the read is, and once snapped he realizes he's wrong. This has appears to be a big reason why he struggles with bad throws at times. Something is wrong in his read and he panics/struggles/makes bad decisions. If you're going to read a defense pre-snap and "know" what you see, you need to be correct or very adaptable if your wrong. Carr is neither. Rattler did not appear any better. When this happened with Brees, he would often give only 1 look elsewhere and if he didn't like it he immediately checked down to Bush/Kamara. This is why a team like the niners always gave Brees such fits. They had really good coverage linebackers that would take away the check down option. This caused a lot of problems always for the Brees/Payton offense.
But the equivalent here defensively is a disguise defense. This ties into above, as its easier to disguise defenses in a 3-4 if you have the correct personal. This causes a lot of problems. Even Brees, Brady and Manning, who are tagged as the smartest QB's in the history of football, would struggle at times against disguise 3-4 defenses like the niners and ravens.
He stays up late at night watching film, from High School on up. If he sees something from a high school game he thinks could work he uses it. This is the mindset of Sean Payton
This is super important. This means he's an inventor. Not a copy cat. He's not going to look around the league and try to mimic the Chiefs Andy Reid offense that most teams already have defenses in mind on how to play against to contain/slow down Mahomes. He's going to watch crazy film tape, take some things he sees that he likes, modify it to work in the NFL and conduct it. Exactly what we want.
My high school won state two years in a row now. Theres been rumors that they record tapes for a "professional football guy" and some college programs. I can't help but wonder now if he's watched em.