Play-callers

Mike LaFleur ARI · HC · year 1 LaFleur is a Shanahan-tree caller — outside-zone run game married to motion-heavy West Coast timing concepts — whose Jets raw pass rates (62.8%) were roster/script-inflated, not identity. His… › Tommy Rees ATL · OC · year 1 Rees's one NFL sample is TE-centric, play-action-heavy (25.4% PA/dropback = high band), 12-personnel-heavy (42% = extreme), moderate motion (~48%), with a healthy RB target share (23.9%) and no fed… › Declan Doyle BAL · OC · year 1 Doyle is a Ben Johnson / Sean Payton tree product whose stated pillars are "physical, detailed, and explosive" — run game as the foundation, hunting explosive plays off it, no rigid run/pass split… › Joe Brady BUF · HC Brady is a run-tilted (PROE ≈ −2 to −4%), high-motion (60% in 2025), spread-the-ball caller — no fed alpha since CAR 2020: Shakir has led BUF at only ~20% TS two straight years, with RB targets in… › Brad Idzik CAR · OC Expect continuity of the Canales system Idzik co-authored — run-tilted (bottom-5 PROE), slow-volume (61 plays/gm), heavy-personnel-friendly (12/13/21/22 combined ~32%), with a moderate play-action… › Ben Johnson CHI · HC Johnson is a run-tilted-by-PROE (−3.9%), high-motion, high-play-action caller who generates volume through efficiency and pace rather than pass-heaviness — CHI 2025 was 4th in plays/game (67.1) and… › Zac Taylor CIN · HC Taylor with a healthy Burrow is the most reliably pass-tilted caller in football — top-2 pass rate, league-leading PROE, extreme shotgun (92% of dropbacks, 3rd-highest — SharpFootball, 2026), low… › Todd Monken CLE · HC · year 1 Monken's BAL tendencies (deeply negative PROE, slow pace, 30% 12 personnel) were Lamar/Henry roster-shaped — separate the caller from the roster. His TB/air-raid roots and pre-BAL history (3 of his… › Brian Schottenheimer DAL · HC Schottenheimer's history is run-tilted Air-Coryell (run game + vertical play-action), but with Dak and this receiver room his 2025 Dallas offense played essentially neutral (−1.0 PROE) at the… › Davis Webb DEN · OC Webb has never called plays at any level of the NFL — per methodology §9 every tendency here is a low-confidence Payton-system prior, not a Webb track record. The system stays (Payton oversees, same… › Drew Petzing DET · OC · year 1 Petzing is a run-lean, heavy-personnel caller (2nd in NFL in rushing yards-per-carry over his three AZ seasons at 4.92 — detroitlions.com, Jan 2026) whose 12/13-personnel rates were among the… › Matt LaFleur GB · HC LaFleur is one of the league's most run-tilted callers relative to expectation (25th–30th PROE three straight years) despite an elite pass offense (0.27 dropback EPA, 2nd in 2025 vs −0.07 rush EPA,… › Nick Caley HOU · OC Caley's year-1 offense was near-neutral PROE with genuinely high play volume (67.3/gm) — volume comes from pace and a defense that gets the ball back (28 takeaways), not from pass-tilt. Motion is… › Shane Steichen IND · HC Steichen is a slightly pass-lean, QB-friendly caller whose 2025 tilt (+3.1% PROE with Jones healthy) was the most aggressive of his IND tenure — but the identity is balance built on the league's best… › Liam Coen JAX · HC Coen is a McVay-tree caller who runs a high-volume (66.2 plays/gm, 2025), pass-tilted (6th in PROE) offense with neutral-band motion (47.1%) and PA (~22%), but he spreads targets — his 2025 WR1… › Andy Reid KC · HC Reid is a pass-tilt caller (+4.0 PROE even in a lost season), mid pace, low play-action, west-coast timing with schemed short-area YAC touches — his No. 1 read historically funnels to the slot/TE,… › Mike McDaniel LAC · OC · year 1 McDaniel is a Shanahan-tree caller — elite motion (~70%, vs Roman's LAC at ~50%), outside zone (MIA ~50% zone runs and 3rd in YBC on zone; LAC 38% and 28th under Roman — NBC Sports, 2026-02-02),… › Sean McVay LAR · HC McVay 2025 made an intentional philosophical shift pass-heavy (PROE from −3.0% in 2024 to top-3 in 2025 — FantasyLife/nfelo, fetched 2026-07-07) while simultaneously going TE-heavy: 30.2% 13… › Klint Kubiak LV · HC Kubiak is a Shanahan/Gary-Kubiak-tree caller — run-tilted (negative PROE, bottom-10 neutral pass rate, 3rd in rush attempts at SEA 2025), slow pace, under-center heavy (bottom-6 shotgun at both prior… › Bobby Slowik MIA · OC Slowik is a Shanahan-tree caller — wide zone married to PA and heavy 21-personnel (29% in HOU 2023, 4th in NFL), slightly pass-over-expected but run-committed in structure; he was fired in HOU after… › Kevin O'Connell MIN · HC O'Connell is a McVay-tree caller who passes slightly over expectation (+1.4% career PROE), feeds a true alpha (Jefferson ≥29.8% TS in each of the last two seasons regardless of QB), keeps RB targets… › Josh McDaniels NE · OC McDaniels is a mildly pass-tilted (+2.4 PROE), slow-and-methodical, low-11-personnel caller who builds weekly game plans rather than a fixed identity — the 2025 stop is the governing prior since it's… › Kellen Moore NO · HC (2–3 sentences): Moore is a fast-pace, high-volume caller — his first five play-calling offenses all ranked top-4 in sec/play and all six averaged ≥65 plays/game (DraftSharks, retrieved 2026-07-07) —… › Matt Nagy NYG · OC · year 1 Nagy is a Reid-tree west-coast caller with heavy RPO/misdirection and tempo elements — his 2018 Bears were 2nd in RPO rate and his stated 2026 plan pairs that with Greg Roman's power run game, more… › Frank Reich NYJ · OC · year 1 Reich is a West Coast, run-to-set-up-pass caller (nysportsday, 2026-05-12) whose signature is funneling targets to TEs and RBs at WRs' expense — TE target share ≥20% in 8 of his 10 OC/HC seasons, RB… › Sean Mannion PHI · OC · year 1 Mannion comes from the LaFleur/Shanahan tree — expect a wide-zone, motion- and play-action-heavy install (GB prior: 44% motion, 26% PA vs PHI's 37%/22% last year) that spreads targets rather than… › Mike McCarthy PIT · HC McCarthy is a west-coast timing caller — pass-friendlier than his run-heavy reputation (DAL 2023 PROE +3.0%, 4th; career raw pass 58.6%, >60% in 13 of 18 seasons), but slow-paced and with a… › Brian Fleury SEA · OC Fleury has never called plays, so per methodology §9 every tendency is a low-confidence system prior, not a Fleury track record — but the continuity claim is unusually strong and explicit: Fleury's… › Kyle Shanahan SF · HC The canonical Shanahan/McVay-tree caller — mildly run-lean PROE at full strength (−2.2 both prior years, −0.9 in the injury-reshaped 2025), elite motion rate (66–70%, top tier all three years),… › Zac Robinson TB · OC · year 1 A McVay-tree caller who ran a top-2 PROE (+3.85) even with a compromised QB room in 2025 — pass-tilted by instinct, quick-rhythm timing throws, PA near the high band, and a healthy 22.9% RB target… › Brian Daboll TEN · OC · year 1 Daboll runs an Erhardt-Perkins (Patriots-tree) system — simplified concept-based calls, high-percentage short passing married to deep play-action shots. His two signature fantasy tendencies: he feeds… › David Blough WAS · OC Blough is a 30-ish first-time caller installing a Ben Johnson-branch offense — the exact inverse of Kingsbury's league-extreme no-huddle/shotgun operation (50.2% no-huddle was nearly 3× the #2 team).… ›