It's hard to take the over considering New England appears to be the worst team in its division. The Patriots' win total at BetMGM is 7.5. It's a pivotal season for Jones in New England. Jones seems unlikely to lose the job, though the offseason trade rumors indicate he's not on firm ground either. Who knows how things are different if Zappe throws a couple more touchdowns that night and avoids those picks? Jones and Zappe are said to be competing for the starting job this offseason but that seems to be window dressing. Zappe didn't play another snap the rest of the season. Zappe threw two more interceptions, the Patriots lost, and Belichick went right back to Jones in New England's next game. At that moment, it seemed like Zappe was taking over the job. Zappe threw a 30-yard touchdown right away. Fans cheered when Bill Belichick benched Jones and put Zappe in. He was 3-of-6 for 13 yards and threw a really bad interception early in the second quarter. Jones came back against the Bears and was awful. The two previous weeks, Bailey Zappe played pretty well in place of an injured Jones and the Patriots went 2-0.
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It seemed like Mac Jones might have lost his job in a Week 7 Monday night loss to the Chicago Bears. The Patriots' offseason was much like the Patriots as a whole: It was decent.
New England also became the first team since the 2000 Raiders to take a kicker and punter in the same draft. The draft was fine, with value picks on cornerback Christian Gonzalez in the first round and edge defender Keion White in the second. They retained cornerback Jonathan Jones and safety Jabrill Peppers, which helps, especially with immensely valuable veteran safety Devin McCourty retiring. Signing Mike Gesicki, hoping to recapture what he did for the Miami Dolphins before he was a misfit in Mike McDaniels' offense last season, could be a shrewd move. Calvin Anderson and Riley Reiff were low-cost free-agent additions to the offensive line. Offseason gradeĪt receiver, the Patriots signed JuJu Smith-Schuster but lost Jakobi Meyers, and that's mostly a wash. And that's the problem for the post-Brady Pats. But Jones remains, and perhaps we'll see him look more like his promising rookie self than whatever last season was. There were reports that the Patriots were willing to trade Jones. Jones' antics seemed to turn many people off. Jones had a good rookie season, then last year people were clamoring for fourth-round rookie Bailey Zappe.
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Maybe the coaching upgrade will fix a lot of what was wrong with the Patriots.īill Belichick hasn't won a playoff game since Tom Brady left for Tampa Bay. The unspoken part of Bourne's comment is probably that last year's offensive staff wasn't familiar with what it was doing, but everyone knew that already. He knows offense a lot, so it feels good." "You can tell he knows what he's doing in all areas of the offense - receiver, lineman, running back. "Bill's familiar with what he's doing, so it feels good," Patriots receiver Kendrick Bourne said of O'Brien, via CBS Boston. This offseason the team hired Bill O'Brien, who you probably don't want orchestrating a DeAndre Hopkins trade but has a good track record as an offensive coordinator. Having failed head coaches Matt Patricia (whose experience was on defense) and Joe Judge run the offense went as poorly as everyone expected.
It's rare the entire world is right and Belichick is wrong on a football matter, but Belichick seemed to be the only sane football observer who thought his plan at offensive coordinator last season was a good idea. If there is hope for the Patriots to be something more than middle of the road, it's a change on offense. In three years they went from the epicenter of the NFL to being one of the league's most unremarkable teams. They'll be a tough out all season, especially with a strong defense, but nowhere near Super Bowl contention. But Belichick is too good to let the Patriots become one of those AFC East teams that was at the bottom of the barrel during the Patriots' dynasty.
Their roster doesn't have enough blue-chip players. They're not good enough to compete for a title in an AFC East that suddenly got a lot better.
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