Connor Hughes’ story about Gase offense in The Athletic
Gase’s offense
It’s still so early, but it was interesting to watch an offense run by someone other than Jeremy Bates. I forgot what competence looks like.
The complexity of Gase’s scheme will undoubtedly advance as the weeks come and go, but early on it looks as if he will give Darnold options on each play. What I mean by that is there are players open to him on every level. He can go short, intermediate, or, as he did multiple times on Thursday, deep. There’s also a creativity to Gase’s calls that I haven’t seen from a Jets offensive coordinator in recent years. Plays in the past seemed designed not to get a receiver open, but to get a specific receiver running a specific route open. Crowder did different things than Enunwa, who did different things than Anderson, who did different things than Herndon.
And as for trick plays, those of which have been extinct from New York’s playbook, I’d expect them to run a couple this year.
“It’s aggressive,” Darnold said of Gase’s scheme. “We won’t be shy. I’m going to sling it around a little bit. It’s going to be fun.”