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Patriots Mailbag: Draft needs, fits and potential breakouts come into focus post-Free Agency

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Will Bill O'B keep the offensive concepts and terminology that they we're trying to implement last year (Shanahan O)? That part of the "experiment" seemed to fail miserably. - A. Snibbets

This is a great question with a lot of moving parts and I'm not sure anyone on the outside can answer it but let's lay out what we know starting at the very beginning. When Bill Belichick and Charlie Weis arrived in 2000 they installed a version of the Erhardt-Perkins offense that was strangely enough developing in New England in the late-70's and made its way back there via Bill Parcells' coaching tree.