“It’s Josh Allen’s offense.”

When asked how much of his own touch he could bring to the Bills’ offense with a full offseason at the helm, Brady responded that “only time will tell.” But there are other factors that influence the development of the offense besides just time.

Just two sentences into his press conference ahead of Tuesday’s team volunteer activities, Brady issued a statement.

“Look at the end of the day, it’s Josh Allen’s offense, right?” » said Brady.

“You’re going to bring the offense together around the guys that you have,” Brady continued. “So for us to just say, ‘Hey, we’re going to scrap everything and, you know, everything was broken’ – that wasn’t the case. Right? And so, there will be certain elements of things that I believe, but it’s more like, tell me who we have on our football team and the guys and what they can do well and we’ll do it.

The Bills offense is evolving, as it should. The team has seen a ton of turnover, especially in the wide receiver room. Receivers Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis, who totaled 241 targets last season, are gone. Third-year player Khalil Shakir is now the longest-tenured receiver. Of the 14 receivers, only Andy Isabella and Shakir played snaps for the Bills last season.

There are a lot of new players, and with that, an opportunity to change the offense. And when it comes to the actual playbook, there are differences as well, as tight end Dalton Kincaid noted.

“The playbook has changed, I wouldn’t say a lot, but there’s a lot of changes and adjustments that we’ve made from last year,” Kincaid said Tuesday. “So I think the creativity and the kind of freedom that (Brady) has right now to test things, especially in OTAs, is extremely helpful, just with our playbook. So, I think he’s getting a lot more comfortable as an offensive coordinator calling plays and creating a playbook around us.

As Brady implements his changes, he’s careful to avoid simply trying to plug players into the roles that Diggs and Davis have vacated. Now is the time of year to tinker with the skills he has.

“You don’t sit there and just say you’re going to replace a player or replace a plan or targets,” Brady said. “Every year is going to be different, and for me the biggest thing is knowing, ‘All right, hey, what are these wide receivers doing right?’ And let’s find ways to put them in those positions. »

And as the Bills figure out how to maximize their options on offense, Brady has a clear vision.

“In this offense,” Brady said, “everybody’s going to eat.”

Brady finds the integration of all the new players “exciting” and he is very determined in the way he goes about it.

“You have to be really intentional about it, because at the end of the day, there’s only one guy in the receivers room who even caught a ball from Josh in a game,” Brady said. “And so, every representative in practice, the individual, there is such intention behind what we do and why we do it.

“And it’s about trying to get a comfort level on the field for some of these guys, and so, your offense is Josh Allen’s offense, but it’s also about what your players do well, and so this is the time now where we’re experimenting with some things like, “Hey, can this guy do this?”

He also spends more time with these players. Brady said the addition of quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry allowed him to spend more extra time with the rest of the offense, instead of the majority of his time in the quarterback room.

And soon, opposing defenses will get to know these new bills as well.

“At the end of the day, when you were playing against the Buffalo Bills for a number of years, you had to worry about Stefon Diggs, right? And it’s different now. But you also had to worry about Josh Allen,” Brady said. “It’s a quarterback-driven league, and at the end of the day, we’re lucky to still have him, and the offense will continue to run through him. We will have to adapt and we will have to have an idea of ​​how the teams compete against us. We’re a few days in, but we’re excited about the group we have.