Do we think that's not by design?
We have seen I think one (?) snap of read option and I think that's bound to be something in their repertoire. Maybe not a primary feature but something in their bag. Otherwise, though, teams tend to be pretty vanilla in the pre-season. Not sure they'll get all that exotic, in part because their talent level isn't that good, but a large part of it will be on Daniels and his presnap reads. In that regard his very early audible is a pretty good sign of his self-confidence and ability to veer off-script. The coaches may or may not have loved it but give me a QB any day that trusts his gut on a match-up rather than sticking to the script. More of that at key moments, more adept game managing at others, and he'll be fine.
The bigger issue is the lack of quality WR depth and what's likely to be a leaky secondary leading to Daniels needing to resist going into superhero mode for them to win. Lack of quality pieces around him seems like the biggest threat to his health rather than coaching or the mechanics/execution of sliding. I'm sure they'll improve the roster some after cuts but realistically hard to expect vast improvement on some really glaring weaknesses.
Since everyone seems to be flashing back to RGMe, the biggest similarity I see is that we showed exactly nothing in that preseason then in the opener, first drive, the pocket was moving on every snap and he had nothing but room and time.
Different regime, different QB, hell, different decade, but I fully expect the first drive against the Bucs to be "holy shit, didn't see that in the preseason." Plenty of running (meaning BRob), hitting WRs in space w/ room to run, go-balls on roll-outs.
I expect we'll see D Brown end up being a picks that pans out and Dotson being the bust.
Total aside, way too early Field Yates mock draft on ESPN has us skipping both OT and CB for a DE at #5 OA. I know not every DE is CY, but not interested in putting that high a pick in another one.
