Twitter follower @charleswculler was curious to know, as Kyle Orton progresses, do the coaches open up the playbook more? Josh McDaniels explained that he hasn’t, and hasn’t had to, because of his approach.

He said because the gameplan changes 100 percent from week to week, there isn’t anything to add on to from the previous week.

“It restarts every week,” Mcdaniels said. “Whatever we’re doing against Baltimore, many of the things we haven’t done to this point.”

After McDaniels said that I remembered Orton also saying something to that effect, and found a quote from mid-October. He said he worked hard in the offseason to learn the playbook, and being in the same boat with everyone having to learn an entirely new set of plays every week might actually speed up the process.

“I think it speeds you along from week to week,” Orton said. “Once that game is over with, you have to put it away and you have to move onto the next week because you are not going to have the same game plan. We come in on Monday, watch the film and get all of that behind us starting Tuesday.

“I just think you have got to do a great job of immersing yourself that week in the playbook and making sure that you’ve got that week.”

The approach has worked well. Now that players have grown accustomed to it, they are in a good rhythm learning a brand new set of plays before each game.

“I think the fact we started doing it in spring, and did it all preseason, all training camp, our players are in tune to coming in the morning and seeing a bunch of new things we’re going to implement that it doesn’t faze them anymore,” McDaniels said. “Kyle is certainly capable of running everything we have in our offense.”

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