When you are Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow and the rest of the elite quarterbacks in the NFL, you can get away with a lot and still be successful on offense. For every team with a quarterback outside of that elite tier, and still with those inside of it, value comes from understanding what works and doesn’t work.
That will be true for the Cleveland Browns on Friday night with QB Shedeur Sanders and it will be true in Week 1 with whoever is the starting quarterback, likely Joe Flacco.
With a return to HC Kevin Stefanski’s offense this season, the team needs to do everything it can to take advantage of ways to succeed in the margins. As we’ve noted in previous seasons, the use of motion is vital for success for most offenses.
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