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Reich on how many wrinkles you can implement for this familiar opponent, and likewise what they expect from Houston:

“I think it will be a little bit of both and sometimes the wrinkles – wrinkles can be really small. It can just be a personnel change. You can run the same play and put different people in there and to the defense, it is like, ‘Hey, they might be running this but the last time they ran this they had two guys here and now it is two different guys.’ So it can be as little as something like that to a different formation or a motion or a shift. Or a little wrinkle can be ‘Hey, we are going to make it look like this run but then we are really going to throw a play-action off of it. We are going to give it the exact same set and formation of a successful run that we had last time and then we are going to throw this play.’ Just little wrinkles like that. I mean it is common but I always think you still got to be who you are. I mean you have your core plays, it is 80 percent of what you do. That is obviously just an arbitrary number but it is 70 to 80 percent of what you do. You just got to keep doing it, do it better, execute it and trust your guys to make plays. What I have experienced over the years is keep running the same plays over and over again and your good players figure out how to make them work. They know how to get open. The quarterback figured out every little nuance of how to read it versus every kind of coverage, every kind of leverage from a defender and there just gets to be a confidence in the play and in the players.”

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