The Patriots, including owner Robert Kraft, were expecting to build on their encouraging 2021 season. Instead, 2022 has mostly been a disaster for New England, leaving yet more questions than answers entering 2023.
There is real mourning for two decades of dominance when the Patriots were the smartest team in professional sports. Better staffed. Better coached. Better in big moments and small. So much better that, on two occasions, the league engaged in multi-million dollar, self-damaging investigations of alleged misdeeds by the franchise. The unspoken rationale for both SpyGate and DeflateGate? They can’t be this good. They can’t be this smart.
These days, the words"smart" and"Patriots" aren’t used in the same sentence very often. Despite employing the greatest coach in NFL history , despite having a fairly capable quarterback and a very highly compensated group of skill position players, the Patriots offense is an unimaginative, disorganized, unproductive, dysfunctional mess of guys running around, slamming into each other and dumbing into the occasional touchdown. And that’s just the past two weeks.
Matt Patricia, who’d been a coaching and personnel utility man since returning to the Patriots after being fired by the Lions during the 2020 season, was eventually installed as the new offensive line coach.The first and only time Patricia specifically coached offensive line was in 2005, his second NFL season. He was an assistant to legendary line coach Dante Scarnecchia. It didn’t stop there.
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