Bill Belichick will need to have forgotten that he’s not the one soccer luminary who has been Mac Jones’ head coach. Jones performed faculty soccer for Nick Saban — arguably Belichick’s best scholar. Remember, “One band, one sound,” from the film Drumline? That line is Alabama soccer. Every individual completely rehearses a job in order that when the entire crew comes collectively on Saturday, all of them play and transfer as one unit.
Jones labored in that sort of setting for 4 years, so in a brand new one, he’s going to note disorganization — a phrase that aptly describes the 2022 Patriots’ offense. Longtime offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels left to be the pinnacle coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. To substitute him, Belichick let Joe Judge and Matt Patricia run the offense. Neither had earlier expertise as an offensive coordinator or quarterbacks coach. Jones was so annoyed throughout the 2022 season that he reportedly reached out to his faculty offensive coordinator, Steve Sarkisian, for assist.
That transfer infuriated Belichick, and NBC Sports Boston’s Tom E. Curran is reporting that Belichick is nonetheless extremely upset. Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio is reporting that Belichick took a look into buying and selling Jones.
“Disloyalty in Bill’s mind is almost worse than bad play,” Curran mentioned final week on WEEI’s Jones and Mego present.
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That is wealthy coming from Mr. “On to Cincinnati.” Yes, Jones going outdoors of the crew for assist, particularly to a school coach, may very well be seen as displaying up the present Patriots’ teaching workers. However, if Jones did that he did so for a cause. Something was amiss within the quarterback room in New England and went elsewhere for higher solutions. His purpose was to grow to be a greater soccer participant, so went again to his earlier house the place he skilled higher construction than his present one.
If Belichick is actually all in regards to the work. If bettering steadily each single day is his life ethos, then Jones pulling out the entire stops to attempt to save a season during which his efficiency was regressing at a fast price ought to have been complimented. Instead, it seems that face that hardly strikes is a masks that hides the ego that has been reported on in latest years.
Jones comes from the very best construction that there’s in faculty soccer. That group was led by somebody who Belichick is aware of personally. Because of that background, although Jones is younger he observed that he wasn’t getting the solutions he wanted from the Patriots.
It pissed Belichick off most likely as a result of it identified early the error that he made in giving two of his pals a job who didn’t deserve it. A mistake that he was pressured to appropriate by firing Judge and hiring Bill O’Brien from Alabama to be his offensive coordinator.
This is what occurs when individuals consider that the band is all about their very own drum. Anyone who challenges individuals for performing in such a method is taken into account a traitor as a substitute of somebody making an attempt to enhance the band.
Belichick wouldn’t desire a participant who has by no means been challenged, and coached by yes-men his whole life. Yet within the later years of his teaching profession, he seems extra involved with preserving his authority than what’s finest for his crew.
One band, one sound Bill. If you lose that, you’ll proceed to lose to Cincinnati and others.