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-> … Shortly after Nick Charlton left for a job with the NFL’s Browns in March, Mora called Sammis and offered him the offensive coordinator’s position. All the challenges and opportunities that come with that job are Sammis’ now.
“There’s really three key tenets,” Sammis said. “We want to be explosive, we want to be multiple and we want to be physical. That’s what offense has to be in this day and age, that’s what’s needed to score points and win games. There are a lot of ways you can do it, but the tried and true thing in football, you build everything around the run game, and then it’s our job to be explosive, to have our passing game
look like our run formations, look like our different run plays. In my mind, if you’re running the football, people have to have answers. If they put guys in the box, you have to be able to throw the ball over their heads. Different types of play-action, verticals. We need to make the defense defend every blade of grass, so we need to stretch them horizontally as well.”
Sammis’ offense will be showing defenses the same plays with different people, different formations. None of this is revolutionary or talking out of school. These are the basics of good offense; the only secret is identifying players who can execute it, and teaching them to do it. <-
-> “Offensively, you’re going to see us run the ball with authority,” Sammis said. “Take what the defense gives us in terms of the passing game and we’re going to try to put our guys in a place where we can get our best players the ball and let them go to work. I feel like we’ve definitely improved our team at multiple positions, we’ve added some explosiveness, some guys with ball skills. The progress they’ve made excites me.” <-
