BEREA, Ohio — The 2024 Cleveland Browns are shooting their shot — and not just in trade conversations for receiver Brandon Aiyuk.
The Browns are shooting their shots on offense as they retool their scheme for this season under head coach Kevin Stefanski and new-to-Cleveland offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey.
And they want to shoot shots often.
Allow general manager Andrew Berry to explain.
“If we were in a free-throw contest against Steph Curry, if the free-throw contest was three shots, we’d have a chance to luck into maybe winning the match,” Berry told Yahoo Sports in a Monday sitdown interview. “If it’s 100 shots, there’s just no shot. I think the same thing holds if you play at a pace or run enough plays where you have more offensive possessions, assuming you have a good offense.
“If you can get more opportunities, [it’s] not only going to give you more chances to score, but it’s gonna allow you to try to create that margin relative to your opponent.”
In a sport in which games are played just weekly and playoff rounds are decided by a single contest rather than a series, NFL teams win not only on the basis of talent but also typically with some luck in a game of variability.
The Browns know that and are factoring the analytics into their offensive system build. After running a league-high 1,187 offensive plays in 2023, Cleveland hired Dorsey to run an offense capable of hammering tempo. Enter one-word plays to help the team assemble more quickly at the line of scrimmage.
“We call them ‘NASCAR plays,’” receiver Amari Cooper told Yahoo Sports. “We have so many one-worders so we can get lined up as fast as possible.”
Hello from training camp stop 7, where the Cleveland Browns redid their weight room and adjacent facilities this offseason. This walkthrough area has two 25-yard wide screens to project game film or Madden-like play setups.
Goal: Simulate & challenge players *before* game day. pic.twitter.com/7T2spNZNIV
— Jori Epstein…
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Publish date : 2024-08-07 05:06:11
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