{"id":45136,"date":"2023-01-09T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=45136"},"modified":"2023-01-08T23:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:08:04","slug":"morse-observations-from-the-patriots-week-18-season-finale-loss-to-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2023\/01\/09\/morse-observations-from-the-patriots-week-18-season-finale-loss-to-buffalo-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"MORSE: Observations From the Patriots&#8217; Week 18 Season Finale Loss to Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tumultuous 2022 season comes to an end in Orchard Park.\u00a0 I expected the Bills to come out on fire with all the hype about Damar Hamlin\u2019s recovery.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t disappoint.\u00a0 What was disappointing is that the Patriots gave up the opening kickoff return for a TD.\u00a0 \u00a0The Patriots were down their leading tackler Brenden Schooler (inactive) on Special Teams.\u00a0 During the game, they lost two other contributors in Demarcus Mitchell and Jabrill Peppers.\u00a0 I would have fired Patriots Special Teams coach Cam Achord immediately after the game.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit that Mac Jones and the Offense played perhaps their best game of the year.\u00a0 The Defense held Buffalo in check midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I will do an analysis of the season but today will concentrate on the game itself.<\/p>\n<p>These were some of my observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t like the officiating. They blew an obvious offside against the Bills on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> drive which changed what should have been 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 5 to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 17.\u00a0 Later they missed two pass interference calls on the Bills which would have changed the game. One was matt Milano trailing the play and went through Meyers before the ball arrived.\u00a0 They made an Offensive pass interference call on Hunter Henry and there was no extending his arms.\u00a0 He ran upfield and the DB held him up.\u00a0 Henry never extended his arms to create space.<\/li>\n<li>DaVante Parker had his best game as a Patriot. He had 6 catches on 7 targets.\u00a0 He also had two TDs.\u00a0 The second against 1<sup>st<\/sup> round pick Kaiir Elam was a slightly underthrown 50\/50 ball.\u00a0 Where was that kind of play all year from Parker?<\/li>\n<li>Nelson Agholor was a complete bust of a Free Agency signing. He was upheld downfield (should have been an illegal contact call) and never fought to get back into the play.\u00a0 The result from a Mac Jones INT.\u00a0 That was his only target of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Jones had three Interceptions and only the one to Henry was his fault. Jones was 26 of 40 for 143 yards 3 TDs and 3 INTs.\u00a0 He completed 65% of his passes.\u00a0 Miami blitzed frequently, yet Jones was only sacked once.\u00a0 Often Jones picked up the blitz and burned them on Parker\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0 \u00a0On one play, Jakobi Meyers didn\u2019t read the same thing that Jones did and Miami blitzed.\u00a0 Meyers should have been the hot receiver as the blitz was coming from his man.<\/li>\n<li>If this was the last game for Devin McCourty, then he went out with style. He had his 35<sup>th<\/sup> career INT, a Fumble recovery, 3 pass breakups, one that broke up a TD, and 5 tackles.\u00a0 McCourty stated, \u201cI still enjoy football, but you\u2019re not going to do it forever\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Slater looked like a player that had just played his last game. He will be automatically selected for the Patriots Hall of Fame and has a chance at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.\u00a0 Christian Fauria made a great point in the post-game show stating that Bill Belichick will keep a veteran player around the team just for the leadership.\u00a0 \u00a0He would sign Slater to a vet minimum and he would come down with the Foxboro flu and be put on IR. This is just to have him around the team and work with the young players\u00a0 I would offer him the Special Teams coordinator job right away.\u00a0 I think Slater wants to stay in the area and be close to the community.<\/li>\n<li>Rhamondre Stevenson with his 54 yards rushing pushed him over 1000 yards for the season. He is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> running back since 2017 to eclipse the 100-yard mark.\u00a0 He also added 5 catches as well.<\/li>\n<li>Damien Harris had a good game in what may be his last game as a Patriot. I thought his blitz pickup was excellent.<\/li>\n<li>Kendrick Bourne was good again today. He had 4 catches in 5 targets (a pass he should have caught) for 45 yards.<\/li>\n<li>Josh Allen didn\u2019t have a great game. He was 26 of 40 for 243 yards, 3 TDs, and an INT.\u00a0 His bomb to Stefon Diggs was beautiful.\u00a0 Jones was on the right hash mark and threw it across the field and led Diggs perfectly.\u00a0 Diggs did an out-and-up double move on Jonathan Jones who had an otherwise good day.<\/li>\n<li>In my preview of the Bills, I had the Bills Kickoff Team as unranked. Nyheim Hines hadn\u2019t returned enough Kickoffs to qualify.\u00a0 I also mentioned that I thought Buffalo got the best of the Moss \/ Hines trade.\u00a0 That was an understatement.<\/li>\n<li>Patriots had 2<sup>nd<\/sup> worst DVOA in Special Teams<\/li>\n<li>Matt Judon faded again this year in the second half of the season. Despite the team regulating his minutes, Judon faded at the end of the year.\u00a0 I liked some of his plays and other I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 On one play, he holds the edge and drops Allen for a 6-yard loss.\u00a0 In the same play earlier, he gets sucked in and leaves the edge open for a big run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bailey and Jones Suspended<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a strange turn of events, the team put both jake Bailey and Jack Jones on the Suspended \/IR list.\u00a0 This was retroactive to Dec 31<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 This means both players lose two paychecks.\u00a0 Bailey, through his agent, has made it known that he is challenging the suspension with the Payers Union.\u00a0 According to Mike Reiss, Bailey stated that he wasn\u2019t ready to play when the Patriots&#8217; medical team examined his x-rays and stated he should be ok to pay.\u00a0 This has been going on for three weeks.\u00a0 The punting and kickoff (2 TDs) have been putrid since he has been out.\u00a0 It is Reiss\u2019 understanding that Bailey won\u2019t make some performance incentives.\u00a0 That means his contract is not guaranteed for next year, making it more likely he will be cut.\u00a0 Jack Jones was late to the rehab sessions several times for which he was fined in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement.\u00a0 Finally, when Jack Jones missed a session altogether, he was suspended.\u00a0 This might be the case that Bill Belichick is trying to re-establishing his dominance on the team.\u00a0 I liked what I saw from Jack Jones, but Bill Belichick won\u2019t put up with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tumultuous 2022 season comes to an end in Orchard Park.\u00a0 I expected the Bills to come out on fire with all the hype about Damar Hamlin\u2019s recovery.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t disappoint.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":45130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MORSE: Observations From the Patriots&#039; 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