I really think that his early comments questioning the game plan of the team together with one of all time dumbest laterals, in a huge game with playoff implications, I have ever seen was plenty to be a dealbreaker.
I haven’t seen a lateral that dumb in 1st-2nd grade flag football- and those 7 year olds love to lateral at any opportunity. If you are going to scrap the game plan and do it your own way, with your own call, your own call can’t be stupid.
This board is so filled with critics of all things Pats, yet Meyers seems to giant a giant free pass on this. It’s like there is a collective amnesia about it. It wasn’t a physical error, like a drop. It was an historically poor decision. In a season filled with mental errors, stupid penalties, and lack of focus, it was by far the biggest errors. All of the press, there were folks saying “This is shocking to see this play on a Belichick coached team.” It was humiliating. I think once that play happened, he was dead to Bill.
Combine the questioning, the stupidity of the lateral, and the marginal physical talent/upside and you have an ex patriot. I simply can’t see where this surprises anyone. You can’t talk out of turn, then directly be part of a huge loss through stupidity and get resigned for tens of millions of dollars unless you are a star who more often than not helps you win games. Jakobi Meyers is not a star.
