Welcome to 60 Max Power O - The Strategist's Guide to New England Patriots Football

The Patriots and the Spread Offense – After a bitter contract dispute in 2006, Bill Belichick and Deion Branch decided to split ways (Branch being traded to Seattle).  No one would know that this was the beginning of Belichick's journey voyage into being an offensive innovator.

Over the past few months, 60 Max's Lead Writer Dana Draper brought the Patriots x's and o's at ya in our signature '60 Max Breakdown Series: The Skill Positions'. Released one by one, Dana goes through all of the offensive skill positions, breaking down the Patriot's special approach that's lead them to success time and time again. We decided not enough credit was due for his work, so during this bye week, we've decided to package them on one convenient page.

The Evolution of the New England Offense – The New England offense is kind of like computer technology, as soon as you get 2.0, 3.0 will be released next month. The amazing fact is that the Patriots has sustained top ten offenses every year since 2003 and when it's time, they release the next version. Great coaches have always changed their philosophies, Don Shula went from a run first offense to an air attack with Dan Marino, Bill Parcells was a run guy until he drafted Drew Bledsoe and threw the skin off the ball, and Joe Gibbs just took what he had winning three superbowls with three different quaterbacks. However, Bill Belichick's offenses has become software type efficient as every few years it gets an upgrade. The Patriots are about innovation and emulating success, not keeping the status quo.