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When we talk about what makes great coaches valuable to their teams, we could be talking about any number of things. Some coaches are alpha motivators who can take their players and make them do things they didn't think possible through the sheer force of their will and the ability to get everyone around them to buy in.

Other coaches are great CEOs—they view the entire organization from above, even and especially their own roles, and those coaches fill their rosters, coaching staffs and front offices with the right people for every job.

But mostly, when we think of great coaches throughout NFL history, we think of the coaches who developed schematic innovations that took their teams to higher levels and made the game better because they weren't afraid to innovate. They also understood how to take those innovations to the field before they even happened. Vince Lombardi was fond of saying that he never put a play in the playbook before he had seen the successful execution of the play in his mind at every position, from start to finish.

In today's NFL, not every schematic genius is an innovator. Most aren't, in fact, and that's OK. Innovation is great, but execution is far more important. You can only invent so much, and the league's 32 coaching staffs are looking to get the edge on all the other coaching staffs at any given time. What the best play designers must do for their teams is understand their personnel and marry that personnel to their playbooks. It's important to note that marrying personnel to scheme is the way to success—not the other way around.

If you have a bunch of smaller, quicker linemen who excel in zone and you insist on running gap power to the detriment of your offense, or you have a group of small receivers who cut angles and run option routes like experts and you miscast them in a vertical offense, it's nobody's fault but yours when it doesn't work out.

The best offensive schemes in the NFL have two things in common: They work more often than they don't because the playbook and players match up, and the people who put those plays in motion are flexible enough to create new plays for personnel when rosters change, which they do all the time.

Here are 10 of the best offensive schemes in the NFL today—concepts that win consistently no matter the opponent.