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disgusted and pissed
and they were still in the playoff hunt at the end of the season...pretty amazing.
Jerry Glanville said once that a Prevent Defense "prevents" you from winning. Evidently so does a Prevent Offense.While I don't have a lot of faith in Andrew Callahan, I don't like to read stuff like that.
Jones and Judge yelling and swearing at each other?
What makes me believe that his sources were on point was the part how Patricia called the
first Buffalo game "scared" of a blowout.
I can buy that really happened and it wasn't the only time. The tail end of that Cincy game showed that the OC was going
to ride or die on the back of Mondre when the situation was ripe to bust somebody open off a play-action and
the Bengals knew who would get the ball and were waiting. Bang, fumble. He was afraid to throw the ball and it
arguably led to a crushing loss. Stevenson's usage was excessive down the stretch. Not his fault, though. Kid showed a
ton of heart unlike his OC.
Scathing article by Andrew and Karen about Patricia and Judge. It seems the team was in lockstep with Jones' feelings about them.
View: https://twitter.com/_AndrewCallahan/status/1618601650448486400
Inside the most dysfunctional Patriots season of the Belichick eraHe did.
and they were still in the playoff hunt at the end of the season...pretty amazing.
Scathing article by Andrew and Karen about Patricia and Judge. It seems the team was in lockstep with Jones' feelings about them.
View: https://twitter.com/_AndrewCallahan/status/1618601650448486400
Scathing article by Andrew and Karen about Patricia and Judge. It seems the team was in lockstep with Jones' feelings about them.
View: https://twitter.com/_AndrewCallahan/status/1618601650448486400
Heard there's a story about an angry Dave Andrews in that article but I can't read the article without providing an email.
Can someone relay that Andrews story for me?
Thanks
On Aug. 8, Patriots center David Andrews gathered the offense after its worst offensive practice of training camp. Temperatures had climbed close to 100 degrees on the field, and the offense completely wilted, the first sign it would be unable to withstand the heat of an NFL regular season.
Mac Jones had dropped back to pass 23 times against the first-team defense, completed 10 throws, taken four would-be sacks and scrambled once. All three quarterbacks had thrown interceptions.
Andrews was animated, hot at the center of his huddle, as he unleashed frustrations for more than a minute. In the following days, a quieter, calmer message reached the players: patience. Not with each other, but Patricia and Judge.
A new reality for the offense under their leadership had begun to sink in, inexplicable as it was. Players would practice, meet, study and play harder, even if it felt hopeless. And like any square peg jammed into a round hole, cracks in the surrounding structure became inevitable.
and they were still in the playoff hunt at the end of the season...pretty amazing.
Saw this posted on Facebook - hope I'm not overstepping in case the author is on here. If I am, I apologize. Here's the reader's digest version:
- This morning, a bombshell report dropped. And it paints a pretty damning picture of why things were so bad this last season.
- Since this article is behind a paywall, I'll break it down for you because I think it's pretty crucial information. It also explains why we saw players like Mac and Bourne lose their cool throughout the year.
- Quite a few Patriots players & staffers shared insights into what went on behind the scenes for this story. In their words: The offense was worse than numbers could capture. It was broken. Dysfunctional. Riddled with distrust.
- Basically, from the spring practices, the distrust started to brew. There was no cohesion between the offensive coaching staff and players started to worry that they didn't know what they were doing. Even before training camp started.
- In the offseason, the Patriots decided to change the offense entirely to have more condensed formations, outside zone runs, and bootleg play action passes. A big departure from what they had run the previous 23 seasons.
- It went horribly right from the get go. And they were forced to scrap most of the play action passes because they couldn't get them in sync. Which caused even more doubt in the coaching staff.
- Under McDaniels in training camp, the Patriots would install 25 pages of run plays, 25 pages of passing plays, and upwards of 40 pages of offensive line protection schemes. At every practice.
- Under Judge & Patricia, that was cut in half.
- “A lot of guys were getting worried because when we were in the middle of camp, we were wondering what the plan was for our offense. Because we hadn’t put enough install in,” a source said. “We had a couple protections, a couple core run plays, but our pass game didn’t have much in it.”
- The idea was to play faster. Reduce the amount of concepts & reads and just make it ultra simple for everyone. But the coaches had never coached this type of offense before.
- And when some of the current players, who have experience in this offense type, started to ask questions, it led to even more distrust. The coaches couldn't explain it, and when pressed to do so, would push the players aside by saying "We'll get to that when we get to that"
- The result of trying to do this simplification was that the coaching staff was constantly chasing their tail and making 1,000 adjustments a week. Instead of being prepared and tackling everything head on, they were constantly having to fix problems (I alluded to this at one point last season)
- On August 8th, David Andrews had to pull the offense aside in training camp and rally the players to have patience with the coaching staff. In
It sounds like the way it looked. Matt Patricia seemed to call games like he was afraid of risking anything. In the end all he did was hold the team back from the potential that was there .While I don't have a lot of faith in Andrew Callahan, I don't like to read stuff like that.
Jones and Judge yelling and swearing at each other?
What makes me believe that his sources were on point was the part how Patricia called the
first Buffalo game "scared" of a blowout.
I can buy that really happened and it wasn't the only time. The tail end of that Cincy game showed that the OC was going
to ride or die on the back of Mondre when the situation was ripe to bust somebody open off a play-action and
the Bengals knew who would get the ball and were waiting. Bang, fumble. He was afraid to throw the ball and it
arguably led to a crushing loss. Stevenson's usage was excessive down the stretch. Not his fault, though. Kid showed a
ton of heart unlike his OC.
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