Patriots 2022 Season Thread

Supposedly this happened,

Mac Jones Yells At His OC Matt Patricia: “Throw The F*cking Ball, This F-ing Running Game Sucks!”

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Whoa, I wouldn’t go that far. Brady went 33-3 against the Bills. Thats almost 20 years of dominance wire-to-wire, aside from the Super Bowls.

This offense is laughable, the opposing defense knows what the pats are doing. Coaching matters, the decision to put two "defensive" coaches in charge of the offense and work with a developing QB is on BB. If I were Kraft I would be all over BB.

The Pats are 5-9 in Mac's last 14 starts including the postseason (since the wind game against the Bills last year). The Patriots used to be a team that would peak post-Thanksgiving, but it looks like for the fourth straight year we'll see them play poorly down the stretch.

To me, this year has been even less enjoyable to follow than the Cam Newton 2020 season. This roster is much better than 2020, but that's part of the issue - in 2020 I felt like they did as well as we could've hoped, but this team is underachieving imo, and even worse it's an undisciplined team that routinely plays poorly in key situations in all three phases. It's just a tough product to watch and root for, beyond the record.

I heard a great point on the radio. The only NFL free agents are guys organizations were comfortable with letting walk away because they didn't believe they were guys you build around or are core to a team. The Patriots didn't overspend because they had great cap management. They did what any bad team does, spend big in the off-season because your draft picks didn't pan out. They didn't supplement a strong roster. They got whatever talent that they could because their roster was barren.

The only way you get premium talent in the NFL is either draft or trade and then you use your cap dollars to retain said talent. If Bill took Nick Chubb instead of Sony Michel, or DK Metcalf (or Deebo or AJ Brown) instead of N'Keal Harry, the Patriots aren't splurging to try and buy their way to mediocrity. They whiffed so badly on TWO TEs in the draft they signed two guys who have been incredibly underwhelming.

There's always exceptions to rules and in his case, he outperformed what he had been. Prior to signing, his career high for a season in sacks was 9.5. He had 10.5 with 6 games to go last season. But they did tag him at one point so they tried to work something out for him.

I don't blame only Bill for this roster Kraft needs half blame for this. Do really think Bill woke up one morning and said I'm going to trade Shaq Mason and make my job harder today of course not that was Kraft and he didn't care what the end results are he just wanted more money in his pocket. Does Bill do the best job constructing a roster no but at this point in his career he will reward the players he likes and hire the coaches he wants because he knows Kraft is only in for the money and not about winning so Bill does what is best for his kids, buddies and catching Don Shula. This is coming from somebody who hates Bill but I need to be fair and not blame Bill for every roster move like everybody does. I could go on all day about this, but you really want make yourself vomit in your mouth go read forbes articles. Just out line of the articles Jerry jones makes over 800 million dollars a year Kraft in second makes over 700 million year but is always at the bottom in payroll in the league. This doesn't make Kraft a bad guy he does great work with charity. Kraft brings in revenue of the New York Yankees but as the pay roll of Tamapa bay Rays.

Spending on the cap like they did this year with Judon contract. More guaranteed money next year more cap space spent next year. There is no reason for Kraft to spend more money fans like you didn't understand Cap space spent and guaranteed money spent big difference. People on this site who know how it work would agree with me.

There are definitely some owners who care more about cash expenditures than cap space. Kraft is not one of them.

Judon was always a good signing, but if the Ravens knew he was going to he a +13 sack per year guy, I don't think they let him walk, which is really the point. Judon has exceeded any logical expectation. It's a credit to him and the team for securing the asset. Before he came here his sacks were
6.0
9.5
7.0
8.0
4.0

The 2 years he's been here.
12.5
13.0 (still counting)

Hunter Henry has been a fine player. He's not nearly worth the contract he got. In 12 games this year he has 25 receptions and 2 touchdowns. Last year he had 50 receptions and 9 touchdowns in 17 games. Before he got here he was 60 receptions and 4 touchdowns. I think the expectations were he and Jonnu were going to be a poor man's Gronkowski and Hernandez. Instead, we got Henry only really being targeted in the red zone last year with nothing really happening this year and Jonnu being a complete ghost. Jonnu has 22 receptions and 0 TD this year. Henry has been an average starter and Jonnu was a complete bust.

Patricia's official title is OL coach, but if you want to say that's his role, it's a failure. If you want to say his role is offensive play calling, it's a failure. It's just amplified if he really is doing both. Bill's son is also terrible at his job if you believe he's the defensive coordinator. They can't stop mobile quarterbacks and their defense has yet to stop an elite offense.

I do agree that the OL is a major problem, which again, is Bill's fault between getting rid of Mason, the OL coach, moving Brown and Wynn out of position and drafting Strange. They struck lightning in a bottle with Brown playing like he cared and thought that they could replicate that, but doing so by playing him in a position he's uncomfortable with and wasn't properly consulted about (according to him).

Their second best free agent signing has one foot out the door too thanks to Matt Patricia.

This team is a couple of plays away from the Jets being 9-3 and the Patriots 4-8. Think about how badly Zach Wilson screwed up those two games.

The notion that Kraft was like “Shaq Mason gotta go” is silly