Patriots Speak: Is Matt Patricia the long-term play-caller?

There was loads of blame pie to go round within the New England Patriots’ Week 13 loss to the Buffalo Payments, however nobody was criticized greater than Matt Patricia.

After the 24-10 defeat, Patriots gamers voiced their frustrations with the workforce’s “timid” offensive play-calling. Second-year quarterback Mac Jones was seen on the sideline through the loss angrily expressing his displeasure with the conservative strategy.

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The efficiency positioned Patricia squarely within the crosshairs amid what’s been a attempting first season for him as New England’s play-caller and de facto offensive coordinator. However will his first yr within the place even be his final?

On a brand new episode of the Patriots Speak Podcast, Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry focus on whether or not they imagine Bill Belichick sees Patricia as the person for the job long-term.

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“I need to comply with up with one thing you stated earlier within the present, which was that it seems like Matt Patricia is a placeholder as play-caller or de facto offensive coordinator,” Perry stated. “Is that, to you, simply primarily based on efficiency? Which, clearly that makes loads of sense.

 

“However to me, I believe this can be a long-term plan from Invoice Belichick to say, ‘I am not altering my offensive coordinator each two years.’ Josh McDaniels, we had been fortunate we had him for a very long time, however I am not bringing in Invoice O’Brien simply to lose him to be a head coach some other place in 2023. I am not elevating Nick Caley to go and be an offensive coordinator or head coach some other place in a yr or two. So I believe this plan is his method of constructing long-term continuity.”

Curran believes Belichick may have a tough time promoting that strategy to workforce possession.

“I hadn’t considered that as a result of it has been such an abject catastrophe to this point that you just virtually cannot run it again with that,” Curran stated. “But when the assumption of Invoice is, ‘We went 5-11 in 2000 and gained the Tremendous Bowl the following yr. We do have seismic shifts in the way in which guys carry out,’ possibly that is what he is relying on right here.

“But it surely’s getting more durable and more durable and will likely be more durable and more durable to promote that to possession, which definitely gave Invoice the latitude to make any choice he wished with the teaching workers, however the on-field outcomes argue strenuously that it ain’t working with Matt and we’re not going to sit down right here and watch the Buffalo Payments and Chicago Bears take mercy knees on the finish of the sport in our stadium.”

Additionally mentioned within the episode: What’s with the Patriots’ lack of urgency? Patriots gamers specific frustration with offensive gameplan. Are the Patriots teaching scared on offense? And may the Patriots change what they’ve been this season?

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