Learning a new offensive system is tough enough for NFL players in a normal offseason. This offseason is anything but normal, but the Browns players are still expected to pick up on new head coach Kevin Stefanski’s system.
It will be the third offense in as many years for the Browns players, and Stefanski has never been a head coach before. He is molding an offense based on his time as Minnesota’s coordinator and QB coach in recent years, but also on some of his other influences and mentors.
To help explain it all to his players while he’s unable to be in the room with them, Stefanski has arranged a virtual library for all the Browns players to study and learn from remotely.
“Our offensive guys can watch tape from the Vikings, they can watch tape from the Cincinnati Bengals, Packers stuff that we’ve cut up,” Stefanski said during the team’s draft special last week. “We have stuff cut up from the Vikings back in 2009. I’ve got stuff from Kub (longtime NFL coach Gary Kubiak) when he was down with Houston.”
Stefanski stressed that his offense will be a blend of all the influences, and that’s why its critical to have so many different sources.
“We want a really big library of plays because I think so many of our players learn from film, and that’s our job to put a bunch of film in front of them.”
Coach Stefanski then talked about the process of aggregating it all and distributing it out on video access for all the players.
“Our coaches are doing an outstanding job and using video and using certain apps that can test these guys. We’re trying to be as creative as we can because we want to hit the ground running. So when training camp starts up, this is a nice part for us where we can teach these systems to our players and then get together and really take off,” Stefanski said during the draft special.
It’s hopeful