Creativity in the offense (1 Viewer)

[David Robbins]

Saints offense showing creativity early in training camp

Rashid Shaheed lining up in the backfield. Alvin Kamara running routes with receivers. The Saints offense is looking creative early in training camp | @southexclusives

saintswire.usatoday.com

Looks like we are getting back to being a creative offense this year under sneaky Pete.

This is great news. I kept wondering last season why we didn't use Rashid Shaheed out of the backfield more.

Kamara can now go back to doing what made him special, and I believe he will shine.

 

[ndcc]

Saints offense showing creativity early in training camp

Rashid Shaheed lining up in the backfield. Alvin Kamara running routes with receivers. The Saints offense is looking creative early in training camp | @southexclusives

saintswire.usatoday.com

Looks like we are getting back to being a creative offense this year under sneaky Pete.

This is great news. I kept wondering last season why we didn't use Rashid Shaheed out of the backfield more.

Kamara can now go back to doing what made him special, and I believe he will shine.

"...at a recent training camp practice Shaheed was seen motioning into the backfield to run a route on a play. That’s not something you likely would have seen last year."

Pete Carmichael is moving towards being a "Mad Scientist." ...just don't get TOO crazy!

 

[SWJJ]

CHAMPIONSHIP!

 

[Saintscuffy]

IMO Kamara needs to used as a WR at times with another RB in the backfeild...mix things up and get him in space, where he is most effective.

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

A healthy Michael Thomas will go a long way with this offense.

 

[meily]

Nothing we did not already notice from watching the training camp clips, but good article to point out the fact we are going back to what made this offense lethal and why guys like Reggie Bush, Sproles, Cadet and Kamara had success in this offense as satellite backs.

Kamara was being rain into the ground the last two years being the only real threat at the position and it took away from the offenses creativity and Kamara's versatility.

 

[jahsoul357]

Nothing we did not already notice from watching the training camp clips, but good article to point out the fact we are going back to what made this offense lethal and why guys like Reggie Bush, Sproles, Cadet and Kamara had success in this offense as satellite backs.

Kamara was being rain into the ground the last two years being the only real threat at the position and it took away from the offenses creativity and Kamara's versatility.

Yep...
Was talking about that in the RB thread. We have been so freaking thin at RB since 2020. I always thought that we should have kept Murray in 21 but because we didn't and no other good options, we had to use Kamara as a freaking bell cow back. Wasn't pretty at all. Now that is probably our deepest position. Crazy...

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

Saints offense showing creativity early in training camp

Rashid Shaheed lining up in the backfield. Alvin Kamara running routes with receivers. The Saints offense is looking creative early in training camp | @southexclusives

saintswire.usatoday.com

Looks like we are getting back to being a creative offense this year under sneaky Pete.

This is great news. I kept wondering last season why we didn't use Rashid Shaheed out of the backfield more.

Kamara can now go back to doing what made him special, and I believe he will shine.

Recently read somewhere that the lack of creativity was due to the lack of perimeter options in the offense. Just before Brees retired and even last year as Olave and Shaheed were figured out it was MT and nobody else. Perhaps you could have done more things w/ Kamara if we had stronger backfield options but it was only Ingram as a secondary runner.

This year we've added TE's, building on Thomas returning Olave and Shaheed, and then adding two RB's which gives Kamara a chance to be more of a receiver. Saints have far more short area options than they've had in a while.

 

[PBsWhodat]

Saints offense showing creativity early in training camp

Rashid Shaheed lining up in the backfield. Alvin Kamara running routes with receivers. The Saints offense is looking creative early in training camp | @southexclusives

saintswire.usatoday.com

Looks like we are getting back to being a creative offense this year under sneaky Pete.

This is great news. I kept wondering last season why we didn't use Rashid Shaheed out of the backfield more.

Kamara can now go back to doing what made him special, and I believe he will shine.

We didn’t use Shaheed at all, all we said was “we gotta find ways to get him on the field” after every time he stepped on the field sometimes good happened. Same with Taysom…. This are the main reasons I have no faith in Pete. We were last in motion, in 2023 if your WRs aren’t moving pre snap you are feeding into the defense. Look at the 49ers offense.

 

[PBsWhodat]

Recently read somewhere that the lack of creativity was due to the lack of perimeter options in the offense. Just before Brees retired and even last year as Olave and Shaheed were figured out it was MT and nobody else. Perhaps you could have done more things w/ Kamara if we had stronger backfield options but it was only Ingram as a secondary runner.

This year we've added TE's, building on Thomas returning Olave and Shaheed, and then adding two RB's which gives Kamara a chance to be more of a receiver. Saints have far more short area options than they've had in a while.

I don’t buy that, because if that’s the case why were we watching third downs with no AK, Taysom or Shaheed. We had coaches who “only had 3 options” struggle to use those only three. I can only imagine what will happen when more options

 

[jahsoul357]

We were last in motion, in 2023 if your WRs aren’t moving pre snap you are feeding into the defense. Look at the 49ers offense.

Quote for freaking truth for all those "pre-snap read" folks. lol.
Motion has always been used to hopefully give a "tell" and create 1vs1 and mismatches. We had nothing to really give an advantages other than AK's shiftness, Taysom's power, and Olave's/Shaheed's speed. (and Tre'Quan during the Panthers game...lol).

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

I don’t buy that, because if that’s the case why were we watching third downs with no AK, Taysom or Shaheed. We had coaches who “only had 3 options” struggle to use those only three. I can only imagine what will happen when more options

Perhaps you misunderstood. Designing of plays and building an offense starts with known commodities.

Saints didn’t know what they would have in Olave/Shaheed last year so it’s impossible to build an offense around them.

Granted mid season adjustment could have been made but the foundation of the offense has already been set.

can’t truly expand until the offseason which they did. Buy it or not logically it makes sense .

 

[Snakehead]

Saints offense showing creativity early in training camp

Rashid Shaheed lining up in the backfield. Alvin Kamara running routes with receivers. The Saints offense is looking creative early in training camp | @southexclusives

saintswire.usatoday.com

Looks like we are getting back to being a creative offense this year under sneaky Pete.

This is great news. I kept wondering last season why we didn't use Rashid Shaheed out of the backfield more.

Kamara can now go back to doing what made him special, and I believe he will shine.

They are on record about why Shaheed didn't come in until later in the season. He was signed as a UDFA coming off an ACL injury. They didn’t know what they had until he was healthy and then they saw how explosive he was, however he needed to learn the offense and as he did his role expanded.

 

[ndcc]

They are on record about why Shaheed didn't come in until later in the season. He was signed as a UDFA coming off an ACL injury. They didn’t know what they had until he was healthy and then they saw how explosive he was, however he needed to learn the offense and as he did his role expanded.

B-I-N-G-O!!!

 

[Hedon James]

IMO Kamara needs to used as a WR at times with another RB in the backfeild...mix things up and get him in space, where he is most effective.

with Kendre Miller, Jamal Williams, and TH7 in a wishbone formation. WTH? you heard me....how you gonna defend that?