In many ways, the NFL has become a copycat league, but innovation is still the fastest pathway to success. Find something different — something that teams haven’t seen or prepared for before — and take advantage of it. Not all ideas work out, but it’s hard to find success as a copycat, as my colleague Eric Eager wrote earlier this week. For good or bad, here are four situations where teams did things differently than the rest of the NFL schematically in 2019.
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