Coaching

[Pape]

I expect that Mayo will be coach for the 2-4 rebuilding year process.

so as @Wax Frog has predicted, we are doomed to be the Browns of the AFCE for the next 2-4 years...

 

[Thelonious]

I have commented on this before, so I'll just say where I end up.

OC: Van Pelt might make a good QB coach for Maye, but he does not have the aptitude to be OC. If the replacement OC favors a scheme other than the one to which van Pelt is so doggedly committed, he could not serve even in the QB coach capacity. I would move on from him at season's end, and I might take play calling away immediately.

DC: Covington, I think, was simply not ready to take on the DC job. One day he might be, but the sloppiness of the defense's play and Covington's inability to adapt in-game to changing circumstances tell the tale. He has to go, again at season's end.

Mayo: To this point, his tenure is a failure: relationships among the team members and increasingly between coaches and players seem to be in a very bad place (pretty shocking for a HC who claimed to value culture and relationships), Mayo's in-game adjustments are either baffling or non-existent, and his messaging is preposterously inept (I would find such a guy very difficult to work for: he can barely get through a sentence without contradicting himself). He is just in over his head, I think. At this point I do not think his tenure is sustainable. I would in. fairness give him to season's end, but I really would not expect any improvement.

GM (or whatever they are calling him): Under both Bill and Mayo, Wolf's work has been abysmally bad. I would fire the preening nepo punk asap.

Krafts: The Krafts were foolish to perimit such a sloppy, cheap, unprofessional, slipshod hiring process for the post-Bill staff. Hiring an HC on the basis that the octogenarian owner found him a delightful travel companion is about the most asinine and negligent "hiring proces" one can imagine.

When it comes to the team management, we pretty much just have to start over. They can't pick the right players, and they can't effectively coach them once they are on board. Yikes.

 

[The Brandon Five]

What about Special Teams? Does anyone recall the Pats giving up a 96 yard punt return TD before?

 

[Thelonious]

LOL. Bill "feels bad for the players." I miss his tender-hearted and compassionate nature, don't you?

 

[Wax Frog]

so as @Wax Frog has predicted, we are doomed to be the Browns of the AFCE for the next 2-4 years...

 

[Grogan14]

Did you say couching?

No politics

 

[TommyD4207]

He's right. Ah, unfiltered Bill.

 

[Thelonious]

No politics

Absolutely right.

 

[TommyD4207]

What about Special Teams? Does anyone recall the Pats giving up a 96 yard punt return TD before?

I mean, yes, obviously. The Special Teams were a strength all season until that happened, and I think some of it has more to do with buy-in than actual coaching.

 

[sportnik]

s/u/a/

If Mayo is still coach going into next season, I won't be shocked, but it will be confirmation that Kraft's ego trumps his logic. Will he decide to piss away Maye's early career and rookie contract?

If Mayo is still coaching into next year, the Pats may not win another game for 2 years. Mayo is completely lost & needs to be put out of his misery ASAP.

 

[dliverey44]

No politics

Not talking politics we are talking about ****ing couches

 

[dliverey44]

Drake was balling in the 1st 2 drives when the ball was mostly in his hands, so lets run more 00 personnel

 

[Mike the Brit]

What about Special Teams? Does anyone recall the Pats giving up a 96 yard punt return TD before?

I can remember a team giving up not one but two 96-yard kickoff return TDs last season. [edit: end of 2022 season] Oh, that was Coach Belichick's Patriots!

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Absolutely right.

I’m voting for Optimus Prime as always

 

[Pape]

I can remember a team giving up not one but two 96-yard kickoff return TDs last season. Oh, that was Coach Belichick's Patriots!

That was the 2022 season, not the 2023 season.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

It’s why you want to build a team with a lot of middle class players, rather than stars and scrubs. Like someone else used to…..

He had an affinity for team captains, too. Now we make captains out of guys who choke out their girlfriends. How far we have fallen.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Does anyone here disagree with the assertion that Mayo is completely overmatched and should no longer be head coach? I’m genuinely curious if some are still laying this disaster at the feet of BB or if there’s still confidence in Mayo somehow, and that he just needs time to fully establish his Kumbaya system and then he will will turn things around.

 

[TommyD4207]

Does anyone here disagree with the assertion that Mayo is completely overmatched and should no longer be head coach? I’m genuinely curious if some are still laying this disaster at the feet of BB or if there’s still confidence in Mayo somehow, and that he just needs time to fully establish his Kumbaya system and then he will will turn things around.

Yes, there are plenty of 'This is all Belichick's fault' folks around. He was fired in January, just so everyone remembers the timeline.

 

[mgteich]

Drake was balling in the 1st 2 drives when the ball was mostly in his hands, so lets run more 00 personnel

The first 15 plays were scripted before the game. Maye did indeed do very well, when he knows the script.

Obviously, the drops hurt the team, but so did some very poor passes.

But all is good. The passing game has arrived.

 

[Thelonious]

I’m voting for Optimus Prime as always

I'll be writing in Jeff Beck.