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Originally Posted by BangbangNinerGang
How much of your playbook do you think has been opened up? Needing to come back from the 24 point deficit seems like you all put a lot on tape.
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At least a half dozen of the plays that Andy ran to regain the lead were from previous seasons. For instance, the first play of the 90-yard drive, Pat throws to Kelce and HOU is called for DPI was from a playoff game in 2016, IIRC. The only reason I know that is because I happened to review that game just a couple days before the game, so I recognized it. That pass was actually designed to go to the RB, but Pat saw the PI and threw it at Kelce to draw attention to it.
There were several others I recognized from other games, but I couldn't tell you for certain which ones were brand new.
Andy always has about 10-15% new plays for every game. He also has a "Super Bowl" playbook that apparently has dozens of plays that never been run except in practice. According to Steve Mariucci anyway.
Not that it matters that much. Andy's plays always have stems. He lines up a play and runs it one way in a game, then weeks later he lines up the same play but now everyone runs different routes, or the rush goes a different way. He definitely has favorites; there's an RB pass play that he runs . . . often, I guess. I've seen him run it in the Lions game this year, and against HOU. And a couple other times during this season, but I can't remember specifically which games.