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Offense: A Lazor Like Focus on Tempo
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I think the No. 1 thing we want to do is play with great tempo,” Lazor said. “There are a lot of different definitions of that and I think you have a chance to see enough of it on the practice field. At the snap of the ball, we want to be fast. That’s including our offensive linemen coming off the ball in the run game. And part of it is knowing what to do and be decisive. In this league, you’ve got to play fast, you’ve got to be physical.”
Lazor is happy with the way the offense is progressing, but that doesn’t mean he won’t keep pushing. The goal is to always go faster.
“Every day, every day,” he said. “I don’t know much you can hear me, but my voice is like this because I’m yelling, ‘Tempo.’ I’m trying to get them out of the huddle faster. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable for the line to make the calls that quickly. The quarterback might want them to settle in and make the calls. We don’t want it. We want to go. We want to go. Every single day, it’s a push. They know it. They understand it. They also understand it’s hard and they’re trying. I’ll keep pushing.”
Lazor was asked what it was that made Foles so successful last season and how that could apply to Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
At the quarterback spot, it’s a couple of things,” Lazor said. “Number one, it’s accuracy. Number two, it’s decision-making and then after that you’ve got to have a certain level of toughness. You’ve got to be able to stand in there. It’s not easy. And there’s no way to prepare for it until you come out to these practices.
“I think (Tannehill is) an extremely hard worker. He’s shown to be accurate out here. He’s shown to get the ball out quickly. I think he has all the zip on the ball that you need. Ryan is extremely willing to do it the way we want him to do it. He’s just trying as hard as he can to learn it. Some of the things are different maybe than what he’s done in the past, but that’s football. We’re just going to try to give him opportunities to grow and keep going forward.”
In the new offense, Tannehill is likely to be asked to roll out more often and he could find himself carrying the ball on zone-read plays, too.
Above all, though, Lazor just wants to keep driving his players.
“What I would say is, part of your job as a coach is to provide energy,” Lazor said. “If they have energy, then it’s a lot less work I have to do.
“It’s my job to show them that they can go faster. It’s my job to take them places that maybe they didn’t think they could get to. And then every time you do that with a player, you see his eyes kind of widen and he’s like, wow, I can be better, I can be better. That’s what we’re looking for.”