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It was a terrific, entertaining, and competitive game.\u00a0 For the most part, I think the Patriots effort was strong, but the execution is still having far too many breakdowns.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Offensive line is in shambles. I think we need to look to the coaches as part of this problem.\u00a0 Since Dante Scarnecchia is no longer coaching and Carmen Bricillo needs to get some improvement from the players we have.\u00a0 Perhaps personnel changes need to be made.\u00a0 Isaiah Wynn needs to be replaced at Left Tackle.\u00a0 He was brutal, allowing pressures and sacks.\u00a0 Totally ineffective.\u00a0 Left Guard Michael Owenu had an awful game with two holding calls.\u00a0 He was benched and replaced by Ted Karras.\u00a0 Owenu was a Right Guard at Michigan and played well at Right Tackle last season.\u00a0 Perhaps asking Owenu to play on the left side is a mistake.\u00a0 Move him back to Right Tackle, especially since Trent Brown can\u2019t get on the field.\u00a0 David Andrews has his head up his ass.\u00a0 He looks left and double teams the DT and leaves the front door wide open for a blitz by Devin White, who plastered Mac Jones.\u00a0 The ball is tipped and intercepted.\u00a0 Right Tackle is still a mess.\u00a0 Neither Yasir Durant nor Justin Herron can play the position.\u00a0 They are turnstiles.\u00a0 This was one of the worst teams for sacking the QB, yet they had constant pressure on Jones.\u00a0 Trent Brown was a no-go again this week.\u00a0 This injury is the single biggest issue.\u00a0 If this team wants to get better, then they have to improve the offensive line play.\u00a0 If they continue to play this way Mac Jones will not make it through the season.\u00a0 The Patriots had -1 yards rushing on eight carries.<\/li>\n
  2. Kyle Van Noy is hurting the team with his sub-par performance. That interference on Fournette\u2019s swing pass was the cherry on the sundae.\u00a0 That play set up Tampa Bay for the game-winning Field Goal.\u00a0 How does Tom Brady outrun you on your blitz for a key 1st<\/sup> down?\u00a0 Its the 4th quarter, 12:34 left on the clock, 3rd down and 6 and Van Noy is spying Brady, dancing with an O lineman at the line of scrimmage.\u00a0 Brady gets forced to run and Van Noy tries to just push him down rather than wrapping him up.\u00a0 First down, the drive goes on and this becomes the eventual game-winning Field Goal.<\/li>\n
  3. The Officiating in this game was terrible. Mike Evans was pushing off JC Jackson all night.\u00a0 Finally, it was called at the end.\u00a0 Matt Judon was held numerous times around the neck and grabbing the outside of his shoulder pad.\u00a0 Josh Uche was held by Tristan Wirfs, holding the outside of his shoulder pads on a run around right end for a big gain.\u00a0 Brutal non-call.\u00a0 This was at the end of the 1st half, with 1:25 left on the clock and the ball at the Tampa Bay 9 yard line.\u00a0 Brady rolls to his right.\u00a0 Uche is clearly held and tries to break away and is spun around from the hold.\u00a0 Worse off, this should have been a safety and 2 points for the Pats and the possibility for more with a Free Kick coming.\u00a0 Brady, when rolling out, was actually in the end zone when the holding should have been called.\u00a0 I will admit the officials missed an obvious procedure call on Left Tackle Isaiah Wynn late in the game.\u00a0 \u00a0The reversal of Jakobi Meyers fumble was shocking.\u00a0 I thought it was definitely a catch, football move, and fumble.\u00a0 How do the officials miss the leg whip by Antoine Winfield on the Harris tackle? \u00a0The officials kept Tampa Bay in the game.\u00a0 Michael Owenu was called for a hold and the replay showed there wasn\u2019t a hold.\u00a0 Lawrence Guy was called for hands to the face and the replay showed there were no hands to the face!<\/li>\n
  4. Slater penalty nixes punt return turnover. The 15-yard personal foul penalty for not re-entering the playing field immediately after getting knocked out of bounds was a killer.\u00a0\u00a0 Slater the gunner, was double-teamed and knocked out of bounds.\u00a0 Slater continued to run out of bounds and not come back into the field.\u00a0 However, Slater was also pushed again out of bounds by Tampa Bay.\u00a0 The defender crossed out of bounds to hit Slater, which is also a penalty that wasn\u2019t called.\u00a0 Slater is an All-Pro and knows the rules.\u00a0 That penalty theoretically changed the game. \u00a0\u00a0The 15-yard penalty pushed them back inside the 20 and forced Bailey to kick from the end zone.<\/li>\n
  5. Mac Jones played phenomenally considering what he was facing. Jones was 31 of 40 for 275 yards, 2 TDs, and an Interception.\u00a0 That interception was off the hands of Nelson Agholor and tipped to Tampa Bay.\u00a0\u00a0 Jones was under constant pressure from multiple blitzes by Tampa Bay.\u00a0 I loved the no-huddle offense that Jones expertly executed.\u00a0 The Patriots were moving the ball and suddenly the Officials were standing over the ball, preventing the Patriots from running the play.\u00a0 It also allowed Tampa Bay to substitute. \u00a0On the reverse side, Jones was throwing against a severely depleted secondary.\u00a0 He missed Hunter Henry on the next to last drive and threw to Meyers underneath, short of the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0 Hunter can be seen running free in the frame. On the last drive, the third-down play that was battered down, both safeties were blitzing and the deep middle of the field was wide open.<\/li>\n
  6. The Pats defense didn\u2019t do the job again at the end of the 1st<\/sup> half, allowing a Tampa Bay Field Goal. At the end of the game, the defense couldn\u2019t come up with the big play.\u00a0 Another case of someone having a breakdown and not executing.\u00a0 They did hold Brady to just over 50% completion percentage, but couldn\u2019t get off the field on key 3rd<\/sup> down conversions.\u00a0 \u00a0Tampa Bay converted 9 of 19 3rd-down plays.\u00a0 The worst was Tom Brady\u2019s scramble with 12:34 to go in the 3ed quarter.\u00a0 Kyle Van Noy took himself out of the play with an out-of-control pass rush and a little fake by Brady sent Van Noy sprawling.\u00a0 That 1st<\/sup> down kept the drive alive and ended in an eventual Field Goal (difference in the game).<\/li>\n
  7. I didn\u2019t like the decision by Belichick to try a 56 yard Field Goal in the rain. Nick Folk has had a wonderful streak of made Field Goals, but asking him to kick that Field Goal in the rain and with an injured plant knee is too much.\u00a0 Folk has not made a 56 yard Field Goal in 11 years.<\/li>\n
  8. This week was all about Tom Brady. I was sick of it by game time.\u00a0 I thought the Patriots fans handled themselves with class.\u00a0 They cheered for him prior to the game, when he 1st<\/sup> came on the field after the tribute the Patriots presented before the kickoff,\u00a0 However, when Brady stepped on the field for the Tampa Bay 1st<\/sup> series, they showered him with boos and let him have it as the opposition QB.\u00a0 His performance was mediocre on the field as the Patriots held him just over 50% completion percentage and no TDs.<\/li>\n
  9. Tampa Bay\u2019s secondary was severely depleted. Perhaps Mac Jones should have done better against this bunch of backups and street free agents.\u00a0 The fact that Richard Sherman started the game after signing just 5 days ago showed how desperate Tampa Bay was.\u00a0 \u00a0Sherman couldn\u2019t cover my grandmother (and she is deceased).\u00a0 Then they lost Carl Davis and later Antoine Winfield. \u00a0Jones, should have thrown the ball downfield more.<\/li>\n
  10. The defensive coaching deserves some criticism here as well. This week we have a key 12 men on the field penalty called against the defense.\u00a0 Later we have to take a timeout in the 4th<\/sup> quarter because we can\u2019t get the personnel straight on the field.\u00a0 That\u2019s coaching and Steve Belechick is not doing the job.\u00a0 Close-ups of Steve Belichick didn\u2019t do him any favors as he looks like an idiot with his mullet and tongue sticking out.\u00a0 Does anyone think he would be the defensive coordinator (whether or not he has the official title) if his dad wasn\u2019t the head coach?\u00a0 Having to call a timeout because you can’t figure out who should be on the field was typical of the indecision on the sideline.\u00a0 That timeout was called while the clock was stopped too.<\/li>\n
  11. The JJ Taylor fumble was a key play in the game. The Patriots forced a 3 and out deep in Tampa Bay territory.\u00a0 They got a good Punt Return from Gunner Olzsewski of 11 yards to the Tampa Bay 38.\u00a0 Two plays later it was 1st<\/sup> and 10 at the Tampa Bay 28.\u00a0 With 11:11 on the clock in the 3rd<\/sup> quarter, Taylor flares out of the backfield and turns upfield.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Tampa Bay defender, I believe it was Antoine Winfield, who tackled the ball with his helmet directly on the ball.\u00a0 In Taylor\u2019s defense. He had two hands wrapped around the ball.\u00a0 Perhaps he was running too high, which allowed the defender to put his hat on the ball.\u00a0 Whenever a defender is able to hit the ball with his helmet, the result is a fumble.\u00a0 From that point on, Taylor is sent to purgatory and only played as the kickoff returner.<\/li>\n
  12. The overall defensive game plan was solid. The Patriots utilized a Big Nickel defensive backfield with 5 DBs including Adrian Phillips and Jon Jones. \u00a0When they went to a Dime package they had Kyle Dugger in.\u00a0 The Patriots dared Tampa Bay to run and they did to some extent.\u00a0 Leonard Fournette had a good day running 20 times for 91 yards.\u00a0 But when he was running, the Bucs weren\u2019t passing.\u00a0 I thought JC Jackson did a great job on Mike Evans.\u00a0 Evans made 7 catches (75 yards) but was targeted 12 times.\u00a0 Several of those catches were because Evans pushed off to get separation.\u00a0 One was when Evans grabbed Jackson to prevent him from making the interception.\u00a0 Jon Jones did an adequate job one-on-one against Antonio Brown who was 7 for 11 (63 yards).\u00a0 An indication that the Patriots were going to employ this type of defense was the call-up from the practice squad of DB Myles Bryant who saw some limited action.<\/li>\n
  13. Nelson Agholor has not impressed me so far this season. He has failed to take the top off the defense with deep routes and has dropped or allowed balls off his hands for an interception.\u00a0 This week he failed to completely come back to the ball and sat down on his route.\u00a0 This allowed the DB to jump the route and nearly pick off the pass for what would have been a TD.\u00a0 Agholor caught it and made the 1st<\/sup>. He was immediately criticized by analyst Chris Collingsworth a former NFL wideout himself.<\/li>\n
  14. This was the best game for the new FA signees. Both TEs were good, Hunter Henry had 3 receptions on 5 targets and a TD.\u00a0 Jonnu Smith was 3 for 5 and a TD.\u00a0 They were an integral part of the offense. \u00a0\u00a0Henry was also open on the last play before the go-ahead FG.\u00a0 Matt Judon was a force all night long.\u00a0 He had 7 tackles, a sack, and 2 tackles for loss.\u00a0 He was also held a couple of other times (not called) and had a clean QB hit on Brady. Jalen Mills played well.<\/li>\n
  15. How does the offensive line allow rookie Joe Tyron-Shoyinka two sacks? I re-watched the 1st<\/sup> Patriots series where Tyron-Shoyinka came in clean for the sack.\u00a0 Tyron-Shoyinka moves to the outside of Isaiah Wynn, then cuts inside.\u00a0 Vita Vea has cut across the face of C David Andrews.\u00a0 Normally, Mike Owenu would be there to pick up Vea.\u00a0 However, he is pulling right to sell the play-action fake to RB Harris.\u00a0 Vea rushing upfield forces Jones has to step up, right into the waiting arms of Tyron-Shoyinka who has beaten Wynn in this wide-open area.\u00a0 The second sack is another play by Vea who is shading the outside of Owenu left shoulder and angling in toward Center David Andrews.\u00a0 Vea takes Owenu, and drives him down the line and into Isaiah Wynn, knocking him out of the play.\u00a0 Center David Andrews, seeing Vea going to his left, moved to help Shaq Mason on his right.\u00a0 Tyron-Shoyinka looped right into the vacant hole and sacked Jones.\u00a0 Finally, the Interception thrown by Jones was a direct result of a free rush by inside LB Devin White.\u00a0 It was a delayed blitz where Andrews looks left and helps Owenu.\u00a0 He never looks back and White has a clear path to Jones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    This team could easily be 4-0 this season but for several recurring problems.\u00a0 First, there are far too many breakdowns by veteran players. On every play, they need all 11 players to be on the same page.\u00a0 One breakdown and the play is broken up or the Defense gives up a big play.\u00a0 Second, ball security is not a priority of the playmakers.\u00a0 It is Bill Belichick\u2019s priority but that does not seem to be getting through to the players.\u00a0 Third, the Defense is not creating turnovers.\u00a0 The only win came when they had 4 interceptions against a rookie QB.\u00a0 They are losing the turnover battle.\u00a0 Fourth, the lack of big plays on offense.\u00a0 Jones threw two TD passes, one short of the goal line and the other at the 1 on a play-action that froze the LB and Safeties. \u00a0Jones needs time to throw downfield.<\/p>\n

    What would you think if the Patriots could be 4-4 at the mid-point (17 games) of the season?\u00a0 It is a real possibility.\u00a0 Houston and NY Jets should be wins.\u00a0 Can they beat Dallas at home?\u00a0 It is going to take time and as each game comes, Mac Jones will get better and all those new free agent players will become accustomed to the Patriots way.\u00a0 I would have loved to be in the room when Bill Belichick reviewed the game film of last nights game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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