Patriots Provide First Glimpse at New ‘Streamlined' Offense

Perry: Patriots provide first glimpse into 'streamlined' offense originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

FOXBORO -- Everyone's talking about it. Openly. It's not very Patriots. Not at all.

And yet, at the same time, it is. Because while Bill Belichick, myriad offensive assistants and players have acknowledged that the team's scheme is changing on that side of the ball, no one has publicly given up much in the way of clues as to what that change will actually mean.

Belichick called it a "streamlined" system that will help players and coaches who haven't been around for the better part of the last two decades as Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady were. They're turning things over. Paring down.…