Kraft really wants the fans to be reassured they're addressing the coaching issues. Good.
In the circumstance you cite, that’s change being imposed upon Bill. He hasn’t proactively changed staff all that often. Granted, he really hasn’t needed to since we’ve rarely seen poor coaching during his tenure.
Well this is the most shocking thing to come from the Pariots in a long time. Appears Kraft has decided things need to change with how they operate. This is great news all around. So weird for them to announce things so specifically.
I was shocked they openly acknowledge an active negotiation with a coach that could leave. Either Bob is tripping or they really think they can get that extension done.
I would imagine Mayo would help meet the Rooney Rule. “Interview” him for DC, name him Assistant HC because he interviewed so well, and then just name Junior DC.
Who knows, they don't have one this year, but the year before it was one Matt Patricia.
Sure. But what’s done is done. Can’t undo the past. Can only learn from your mistakes and move forward.
Yeah and part of that trust is that he’ll find a solution if he thinks there is a problem that needs addressing. And that’s exactly what he’s telling people he’ll do. So… In Bill We Trust.
Eh. As was illustrated this year, one of the biggest holes involves a brain drain among the coaching staff. If you have a talented company guy who you think can be part of your future, keep him happy.
Sure probably? Of course assuming a positive year of development for Jones is probably a stretch, QBs, particularly those without top end physical tools, develop or don't develop in unusual ways, and while the coordinator was bad, the line play is likely far more on players than anything, so Mac would still have dealt with adversity with any coordinator and knowing how he'd respond is difficult.
You don't think there are good OCs out there that are both younger and more in tune with the current game? I mean, why?
Maybe, but are they BB-approved? BB seems to like people who are in step with the "Belichick way" and Weiss certainly fits that bill (no pun intended). Brady developed under him and they're trying to develop a young QB now. He sucked as an HC, but had great success as an OC.
This is a good thing. I want an owner who recognizes there's a problem and is focused on keeping the fans happy. This is his business, not Belichick's. I'm sure BB would love to say absolutely nothing until a reporter spots a new face during training camp.
I think whats suggested would actually make things better for all parties. The new OC is actually empowered. Steve finally might get some credit. Mayo walked walk as a player and by all accounts is ready for the next step. I hope he gets the opportunity here.
"We don't have one player you gotta game plan for."
Had him for only 8 games but the answer is the same as basically every year he was on the team.... Rob Gronkowski.
And yet without him they put up 34, 36, and 34 points in the playoffs. Their best ever playoff run.
Right but without him they went 10-1 and won the Super Bowl. They didn't need that top guy you "game plan for" to win the Super Bowl, is the point. They had a bunch of good players, plus an all-world QB.
GOAT TE who was a sixth OL and the most dynamic receiver on the field. Yep.
Honestly it sounds like something a fan(or pompous owner/owners kid) would say not a football professional in BB’s school. Pro teams game plan for everybody. I know it’s shorthand for “we don’t have a player who they have to dedicate substantial resources to slowing down” and it’s clearly right that we don’t have great talent on the receiving corp but I wouldn’t take this as proof that BB himself thinks that we should trade for a top WR or something
They also had a pretty OK QB. But they haven’t really had any great weapons on offense since Gronk retired the first time.
Nah, that's how football guys talk too. And I think that's precisely the shorthand, which is true. Rham is the only guy on O that an opposing DC has to spend any time worried about, and even then I'm not sure it's anything more than the usual concern about stifling a good RB.
In Bill's Football Life documentary there's the scene of him sitting in a meeting saying "all they have to do is double Moss up top and clamp down on Welker and there's nothing else we can do". Sometimes coaches just speak like fans when the issues are obvious.
I don't think it really matters what the public thinks of as "#1 WR": Edelman was. And I'd wager teams very much gameplanned for him - if they didn't, that'd help explain why the offense was so good.
I’d contend that what BB said there was a lot more precise than we need guys you need to game plan for. In any event does anyone here think that it was BB who said to a reporter we need a receiver you need to game plan for? That really doesn’t sound like him (either in language or in divulging what the team needs)
"If you just take Moss away in the deep part of the field and get down on Welker, we're done. We can't run the ball, we can't throw it to anybody else, we're done."
I said it didn’t sound like BB (or any pats football guy) three of you said no way that’s totally what BB and other football guys sounds like, so I’m trying to figure out if anyone disagrees with my conclusion that it’s probably a Kraft statement and I wouldn’t conclude that bb wants to spend big to get a high end receiver.
That was the opposite sentiment expressed by the anonymous speaker there though. The 2009 Pats had two guys defenses needed to gameplan for, but they had Sam Aiken as their third receiver.
Who knows, but it’s someone who’s close to the situation and it’s something that was said here repeatedly this season.
Well it's someone "in the org" so they might well be physically close more than have any knowledge or capacity beyond the average fan, which I think was the point.
OK but isn’t Girardi a pretty good source? If it came from someone as far flung as you suggest, would he report that? Seems like a credible reporter is going to mention it only if it comes from someone who is relevant.
He's throwing it in with a bunch of other stuff like 4 or 5 quote tweets deep, and not in a real story. Also, the Vp of tickets was mostly a joke, it's from someone close to the owner or someone else in the executive suite would be my guess. But also... that's part of how you get stories, you carry some water. That tweet is doing 2 things... 1 staking out a positive position on BOB by someone in the non-football side (so ownership or business side, not under Bill), and that person is also taking a bit of a shot at Bill's roster construction, perhaps to put public pressure for a move that Bill might be reticent to do (like a Hopkins trade, or drafting a WR in the 1st, etc.). People with "good" sources get them by doing favors and inside baseball.
