Patriots New Offense: On Deshaun, Bryce, Mac & 'Cutting-Edge' QBs Under Coach Bill O'Brien

New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien is embracing the "turning the page" mentality as he is overhauling the offense.

New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien declared that since his hiring in January that everyone has a "clean slate." It was the big quote of the day from his first press conference since returning to Foxboro and is the talk of the town as the first stages of offseason workouts are underway. 

It won't be a clean slate for just players and coaches, as a report from SI's Albert Breer revealed that the coach has also cleared the whiteboard of last season's offense in favor of creating a brand new one.

"My understanding is Bill O'Brien is completely reworking the playbook with the new coaches," Breer said in an interview recently with NBC Sports Boston's Early Edition.

It sounds like the type of change that fans hoped they'd get to see last offseason when the Patriots talked up the system being installed by then-offensive coordinator Matt Patricia. 

The dysfunction of the 2022 offense is still fresh in the mind of fans. The hope, though, is that O'Brien has the type of experience and creativity to fix things, starting with proper guidance for QB Mac Jones.

"I think it's going to be a hybrid of a lot of different things," Breer said. "I think it's going to have some stuff that they did at Alabama that Mac is going to be comfortable with, because Mac [Jones] was at Alabama. ... He coached Deshaun Watson in Houston, he coached Bryce Young the last couple years at Alabama, so he's got a lot of different ideas.''

"He does have the bones of the Patriots offense, but he's gonna be able to do some things that I think are on the cutting edge of where the sport is going."

No, this won't be the same offense that the Patriots had back in 2011, the last time O'Brien was calling the shots in Foxboro. It also won't be the offense that Jones excelled in and O'Brien later oversaw in Tuscaloosa. Instead, this will be a mixture of all the different systems that O'Brien has run along the way. 

For a lack of a better term, this offense is being designed as Mac-friendly. This makes it an exciting prospect for fans who yearned to see the same quarterback who as a rookie showed flashes of what made him special coming out of Alabama ... and who maybe can be "cutting-edge'' now.

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