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Offense shows ‘glimpse of our identity’

Offense shows 'glimpse of our identity'


Mooney knows the offense has a lot more to show in the regular season. He is excited about getting deeper into the playbook, which includes “a lot of nice and crazy plays.”

“If you look back, we didn’t really run many plays,” Mooney said. “We’ve run some of the same plays every down. Just a lot of play-action and then maybe one or two shots down the field. But we’re really running the same plays. Nothing really crazy. Just our basic, simple plays. So we’ve got a lot of things cooking.”

Even with the simplicity of the offense in Cleveland, Fields was able to complete passes to 10 different players. And there are still a handful of receivers who are out, including Velus Jones Jr., Byron Pringle and N’Keal Harry.

The growth in connections between Fields and the receivers is something Mooney sees as an important factor for the offense.

“It means you have to cover everybody. You can’t ‘eye’ on anybody,” Mooney said. “Somebody’s maybe having a good game the week before and you feel like you’ve got to ‘eye’ on that guy, and there’s another guy that shows. So you’ve got to make sure you’ve got eyes on everybody. Especially around the league, everybody’s like, ‘We don’t have anybody. We don’t have anybody for Justin to throw to or what not.’ Then you’re just gonna have to pick somebody – pick somebody to close out – and then somebody else is gonna go off. So, it’s your choice who you want to defend, so if you choose to cover that guy and this guy destroys you, then you’ve got to go back and deal with that.

“We have a lot of elite players – not a lot of known, name guys. But there’s always guys that don’t have names when the first come in the league or when they try to progress and grow. And they make a name for themselves. We’ve got a lot of guys that can play very, very well and they’re gonna make names for themselves – including me.”

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