According to Albert Breer of SI.com, new Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien is “reworking” the Patriots offense.

O’Brien was the Patriots offensive coordinator in 2011 and ran the system that was in place. Many believed that when he was hired in January, he would be running the Patriots system again. He may be doing that but it will look vastly different than what we are used to.

What people need to understand is, O’Brien was always going to tweak things. He was never just going to run the Patriots system. Part of bringing him back was to bring in new ideas. The goal was to update the system, not to just move on from last season’s debacle.

We can speculate as to what the Patriots will run under O’Brien all we want but it is just that, speculation. Until we see this team on the field in OTA’s mini-camp and training camp, we won’t truly know what they are running.

We can guess that they’ll run more RPO’s and stuff of that nature but that’s all that is, a guess. Members of the media love to pretend like they know scheme and they’ll throw a blanket term like RPO but the changes O’Brien is going to be making to this system are much broader than simply running run, pass options.

Traditionally, when a team hires an offensive and defensive coordinator, they hire them because they want them to bring in a certain philosophy or style of play with them to the organization. The Patriots have never done that under Belichick. The system and the assistants that know it has always been in place.

The O’Brien hire is the first coordinator hire for Belichick where he is allowing someone from the outside to bring in new ideas. Granted he knows O’Brien and O’Brien has worked for him before but nonetheless, the goal is to fix the offense and the best way to do that is to give O’Brien full control.

So we you hear that O’Brien is “reworking” the Patriots offense, just remember this. He is supposed to. That is what happens when you hire a coordinator from outside your organization. It is just that Belichick has never had to do it before.

After last season, he had no choice. Now the rebuild on offense has commenced and soon enough, we will see the changes O’Brien is making.