This is the most bizarre Patriots season in recent memory. It feels like each week is a game of “tug of war,” where my patience is the rope and the teams are my sanity and utter confusion, with the final goal being which side can cause me to Google different types of knots and how much weight each knot can hold. It’s quite astonishing… and I actually get excited to do it again each week. It’s sickening, the hold this franchise has on my mental state should instantly get me qualified for some sort of class-action lawsuit. The worst part of it all is that I can’t even place my finger on what the problem is.
If you scroll through social media you will see everyone has a slightly different opinion on what this team’s problem is, but are pretty much the same. It’s coaching, it’s the roster, it’s the owner, and all are true to some degree, but I can’t quite figure out what the exact answer is.
Jerod Mayo’s first year as a head coach has been a dumpster fire. This team is undisciplined. The amount of procedural penalties this team commits is atrocious. That falls on the head coach. Say what you want about Bill Belichick, but these errors didn’t happen during his tenure. The Patriots had 13 penalties yesterday, with six of them being before the snap. The false starts and illegal shifts, and the holding penalties are costly for any team, let alone a team that is young and underskilled compared to most teams. These errors fall on the head coach.
