Bill Belichick’s future with the Patriots could hinge on whether he’s willing to hire a real offensive coordinator, Rosenberg_Mike writes
Part of the relentless allure of spectator sports is that even a layperson can correctly observe when a genius does something dumb, and now it is Bill Belichick whose mistakes are on display. Belichick is the best football coach ever, and yetBelichick did not want Jakobi Meyers to chuck the ball backward to Las Vegas’s Chandler Jones
Belichick didn't replace former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, choosing instead to install Patricia to oversee the offense and call the plays. As hard as it was to watch Belichick’s players completely ignore him in a critical moment—running backhe was supposed to go down and he started a lateral contest instead—that was still one play. Weird stuff happens in football sometimes. Hiring Patricia against all available logic was a choice, and it probably killed the Pats’ season.
The only argument in favor of Patricia replacing Josh McDaniels was that Patricia is a New England guy, raised on Belichick ways. It looked, from the outside, like Belichick was so tired of people attributing his success to Tom Brady and McDaniels that he was determined to go the other way: hire a coordinator who would never get the credit, and win with defense, his specialty.
Assuming Belichick wants to keep coaching, the Patriots’ offseason hinges on this question: Is he desperate to validate all of his success, or is he going to make the same clear-eyed, cutthroat decisions he always made before?
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