The debate about who was extra liable for the Patriots’ dominance — Brady or Belichick — ended fairly rapidly when Brady received a Super Bowl in his first season with Tampa Bay. Since Brady left New England, Belichick’s report is a fair 24-24, and 0-1 within the playoffs, with that lone postseason sport being an embarrassing blowout. Of course, issues are by no means fairly that straightforward, and this coach and quarterback pairing are inextricably linked for these six championships.
That being mentioned, Bill Belichick’s stubbornness is coming again to chunk him. His insistence on doing issues otherwise only for the sake of doing them otherwise has confirmed to be a mistake, and now he doesn’t have the perfect quarterback of all time to assist cover his shortcomings.
Not naming an offensive coordinator, however reasonably having two guys put their heads collectively to attempt to determine it out has left Mac Jones visibly pissed off. Not solely is Belichick using an offensive teaching system that no different staff within the league is utilizing, however he’s doing it with Matt Patricia, who was lately a defensive coordinator, and Joe Judge, who was lately a particular groups coordinator. The final time certainly one of these guys was solely an offensive coach was when Patricia was the Patriots’ assistant offensive line coach in 2005. Judge was additionally the staff’s large receivers coach in 2019 along with his particular groups coordinator position, however has no different expertise as an offensive assistant on his resume.
Many are prepared to leap ship on Mac Jones being their quarterback transferring ahead, but it surely’s powerful to say whether or not or not he might be a viable starter as a result of he hasn’t actually been given an opportunity to succeed. He’s dropped extra F-bombs than dimes on the sector this season and it isn’t onerous to see why.
Now with their most up-to-date loss, the Patriots are most definitely out of playoff competition. In case you’ve been dwelling below a rock, on the final play of a tied sport towards the Raiders, Patriots operating again Rhomandre Stevenson ran a draw play and lateraled to Jakobi Meyers, who then threw it backward to Raiders defender Chandler Jones, who ran it again for the game-winning TD.
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Ironically, the Patriots misplaced to their offensive coordinator from final 12 months, Josh McDaniels, who has in any other case proven himself to be a largely incapable head coach for the Raiders. The final play of that sport is justifiably getting all the eye, but it surely’s additionally distracting from the truth that Belichick was about to go to additional time towards a nasty staff coached by his former assistant whose seat in Las Vegas has been scorching because the minute he sat down.
Both Stevenson and Meyers have mentioned that the decision was to run a easy draw play and let the final seconds of regulation run out. Obviously, Belichick didn’t inform any of his gamers to throw the ball ten yards backward, but it surely’s troublesome to see how a once-in-a-lifetime mistake is something apart from an indictment on the teaching workers.
And now, everyone seems to be asking, “Can you believe a Belichick-coached team did this?” It’s onerous to imagine that any staff would do that, however a staff coached by a man who misplaced a sport as a result of he performed Gronk at security for the ultimate play wouldn’t precisely be low on my listing.
The level is that Belichick is just not infallible. He is just not the keeper of the Xs and Os. He’s a coach who’s imperfect identical to another, but it surely looks like he’s constructed up sufficient of a popularity that nobody within the constructing can problem him. It wasn’t that way back that Gronk retired till the chance to play for a distinct staff offered itself. Maybe a militant teaching model that makes gamers wish to depart isn’t the finest in any case.