“Whatever style you want to be, it should reflect the talents of your team.”
Josh McDaniels said those words during the 2019 offseason. He and the rest of the New England Patriots have lived by them before and since.
Be it the spread looks of the late 2000s, the up-tempo and two-tight end attacks that followed it, or the ground-and-pound approach used during the 2018 Super Bowl run, the Patriots’ offensive identity always tells what the team thinks about the players on its roster.
Looking back at the 2020 season, we can therefore say with some confidence that the team felt good about its running game but not so much about its aerial attack.