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Kyle Shanahan asked about "inventing" plays by jt

for his rookie qb. I think he gives a pretty interesting answer and ties things into how the better offensive coaches devise their schemes and adjust as needed.

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General Manager John Lynch had shared in the spring that coming back from Ohio State's Pro Day, you were on the plane designing Trey Lance specific plays very excitedly. If indeed John Lynch has his story straight, are you dusting off old plays or are you inventing new plays? And is it safe to say those plays have not been seen yet in the preseason?

"Yeah. We've been showing them all. That's really all we've been doing (laughing). I hope you guys haven't been bored with them. I'm joking, you guys can't see me so you can't see that I'm smiling. No, personally, I don't think there are any more new plays in football. Football has been played for a very long time. So, whenever anyone acts like they've invented a play, it might've been done 40 years ago out of a different formation. You look back to old school football with the veer and option football. Then you remember when they first started doing the Wildcat in Miami it felt like it was new football and it was really just old school football out of some different formations. And all that stuff kind of comes full circle. It's just what are defenses getting used to seeing? What are they preparing to stop? And when they do that stuff, then what are they not used to? I think It's always evolving. You look back to teams like Nebraska and when they were winning National Championships and always running with Tommy Frazier and all those guys, not many college teams were doing that. Everyone was practicing against other schemes. And then all of a sudden, they have to go against that one week and they can't stop it. A lot of people start to do that stuff. And then people can't stop the spread offense then going to the run-and-shoot. It's all about kind of what defenses are doing, what they're preparing against. And that's why as a coaching staff, it's not just inventing some new play. It's about how to tie a play in that your players can do that attacks weaknesses in a defense. And if you can do that, you can put a defense in a bind and you can really make them adjust. And that's the stuff you're always trying to look for. Us coaches, when we think of players we're always drawing up plays that we think those guys can do that could really put the defense in a bind. And as guys get hurt, or as you face different stuff, that's why you're always adjusting and trying to just put your team and your players in the best chance to win."