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Longo pointed to Mike Leach and Kliff Kingsbury as his biggest influences in the style he plans to run with quarterback Shea Patterson.
“It’s based on chasing space, and that’s a fairly vanilla comment to say, but we do,” he said. “Our guys are given a lot of freedom to chase grass. We don’t always know where the grass is going to be, but the size of the field never changes, there’s going to be 11 defenders. Regardless of what they do, there will be space. What we will do here is take that same philosophy and apply it to our run game.