does his opinions,
his conclusions,
his beliefs is the what it takes
to improve the team mesh with whatever ownership may be
thinking, because I suspect were moving toward a point
where there could be a disagreement. Sure tween.
What the guy who has created. This mess
thinks is the best way to clean it up.
And the people who
have just watched the mess be created,
They may have different ideas
on where the mop needs to go
and what needs to be
cleaned up and how it needs to be cleaned up.
And that's where even though he said he's coming back
until we know that Belichick and ownership are on the same
page about what needs to be done.
I'm not 100% sure. This is all going to work out as smoothly
as we assume. Well, I thirdly expect there to be some. Yeah.
Some real, very candid, conversations behind the scenes
between mr. Kraft and
and Bill Belichick
And I think that's what's made them great there. I mean one
Belichick is the kind of guy that's going to self reflect
and evaluate everything he's done and what the organization
did football wise. Mr. Kraft is one of those owners that we
have talked about where
he's around, his presence is known.
He does not, you know, stick his nose into things or get
involved into it to a point where you go. Wait, that's not
your area. He just got a feel for the organization and
the overall look and things of that nature.
So, I would expect there's going to be, you know, some
some conversations here and I'm sure mr. Krabs on happy right
now.
He made it be known a little bit last year in the owners
meeting. Right saying he wasn't happy that they hadn't won
a playoff game and a few years.
And the way this your looked and then I think it's fair,
that this is a year where you can certainly
blame some of the struggles on. Yes, the coaching decisions.
Sure. Yeah.
Bill Belichick. The offensive coordinator thing.
I mean that's directly on Bill Belichick. There's no doubt
about that. Let alone. Hey, they faltered in some areas on
the field, this year, that we're not used to seeing.
They were up there in the league leaders as penalties. We
saw the mess up some big, you know, moments and situational
football that we're not accustomed to seeing so I'm
with you I expect them to be back
but I'm with you in the fact that I wouldn't be shocked.
There's a little tension there. This offseason between mr.
Kraft and Bill Belichick.
Jr, you've heard for weeks and others have talked about Bill
O'Brien coming back. That would seem to be the obvious solution
here. Assuming ownership is on board with it, but they have to
do something to make the offense better. And the
other thing that was significant from what Belichick
said yesterday, he was asked about Mac Jones being
the starting quarterback for 20 23 miles Simmons. And I addressed
this yesterday, right, after it happened,
he didn't say yes.
And, and you know, any time there's any equivocation
with the starting quarterback, the New England Patriots,
I think. And what would Bill have said if he'd been asked
the same question about Tom Brady in his prime and that's
what you compare it to. He would have rolled his eyes and
said next question he wouldn't even dignify it with a
response for him to not make it clear. That Mac is their guy
tells me, they're thinking about what to do next and
there's been tension there
all year. There have been issues behind the scenes. All
your Mac has been pissed about the change. From Josh McDaniels
to a couple of guys who weren't offensive coaches out.
Soft pensive genius, a family and then you throw in
the belly, zapping thing, right? And he was pissed. And then
the end of the year, what did we see? Temper tantrums every
week? And I don't care what Bill Belichick's says, or
doesn't say about the dirty play against Eli Apple. That
was
a dirty ass play by Mac Jones.
And somebody, in that organization
may have seen that and been turned off to Mac Jones as
a member of that team going forward. They're not going to
come out and say it. I'll just move on at the right time.
They'll trade him to Josh McDaniels at the appropriate
moment. There's no reason to trash the
guy on his way. Way out the door.
But it sure seems like he's going to be on his way out the door.
It does seem like it's a possibility, shockingly enough.
And I mean, I'm with you and that I do think it was a dirty
play. I don't think that's the part in the fact that's going
to, you know, change the Outlook of him overall. I do
think what you said, original ready to be. It can be that I
can last row High breaker if you're already thinking about.
Right? Exactly yeah I hear you there. I hear you there. I do
think everything you laid out as is an issue and it seems
like it's an issue and it seems
It's almost a little
you know again I don't know if it is. It just seems like it is
almost a little personal as far as what's going on there. You
explained it the right way.
Mac Jones, wasn't happy.
He was telling people, he wasn't happy,
he was calling people about hey can you help us with ideas and
do stuff like that? Right from my understanding Belichick
found out all these things. He found out that Mac was talking
to people and all this
and there was some you know back Channel
You know, conversations going on behind Belichick's back.
And I think that's where did get personal.
No, he
then. And that's where and Belichick made Mac Jones aware
of it too. As you might imagine, I exactly what you
know why it stopped, right? And then I think would do, you
know, the Bailey's a p. Then I think you're right there.
I think that was
a little bit of a dig
at Mac Jones. Mac Jones did not play his best this year. He did
some good things but he had some moments over like what are
you doing? Why would you make that decision that interception
and this
But but yeah, I'm interested to see where this goes. I mean
Matt Jones seems like he is the perfect quarterback for what
the Patriots usually want to do, not this year.
But a guy that's a robot that you can just throw a ton of
offense at him, see he's that kind of guy he can do more with
more. You know,
he's not the guy that's like Josh Alla Norma homes and I'm
like, oh wait, it's a, you know? Hey, I can carry us or do
this or do that or the game plans, not that bad, and I'll
go knock that good. And I'll get us over the hump. No, he's
the guy that You can go. Hey, wait. Here's 100 plays. And
here's a hundred
checks and I want you to get to this play. And I want you to
recognize that the safety goes this way that they're putting
this coverage,
he can digest all that.
And that's where
the McDaniels and the Shanahan's of the world. Loved
him coming out in the draft because they no, wait, I can
give him a lot of answers and he'll be able to do it but he's
on
thin ice. It seems like in New England right now.
But you know what I thought of something as you were saying.
Yeah. And it reminds me of what I've heard people say about
Howard Stern. Yeah, that there will never be a Howard Stern
because
whoever the next Howard Stern is going to get canceled on his
way to becoming Howard Stern, because you can't be who Howard
Stern was before. He graduated the guy that he now is right
and I thought of that is weird as it sounds
Mac Jones because he lacks the physical ability to go out
there and do what Josh Allen's and Pat Mahomes does nobody's
ever going to be patient enough with him.
To basically become the next Tom Brady, that's what you're
saying. A guy who can process everything a guy who can make
the decision, a guy who knows exactly where to put
the football, looks across the line. Everything makes sense,
runs the offense,
but if you don't have that physical ability to make
chicken salad out of chicken crap, you're not going to make
it because the best of the best have that natural physical
building great. He's never going to get the chance
to grow into the guy that Tom Brady eventually became not
the way it is right now. That's exactly right. Mike, that's
right. That's where you know they got to think about do they
want a future with him and if they want a future with him,
simple offense expecting him to do extraordinary things is not
the way it's going to work. You're saying or right,
you need an extraordinary offense
you know the again
and then he'll look extraordinary and he'll make
the offense, look extraordinary, you know, he can
make all the appropriate throws and do all that and yeah,
I think that's
you know again. Why McDaniels? Love them.
And coming out in the drought and that's why McDaniels hugged
him so much after the Raiders Patriots game to probably, tell
him to keep his head up. That's why
Shanahan love them.
Because look, I mean what, how could you not think about what
would the 49ers look like with Mac Jones? All we're seeing it.
That's right with Brock party except he's not even as good as
Mac Jones. Well,
so that's the beauty
of Mac Jones. And again, that's where yeah,
to your point. They need a good offense of Mind in there that
can give him all the answers, and he'll to take advantage of
all that, that's there to be had. In that department.
As a smart coach, who I sat next to on Sunday in
the viewing room observed, at one point, smart quarterbacks know
how smart or not their coaches. Are exactly. They know it. Yes.
And they react, right? And they react and, again, Matt Patricia
a defensive genius,
but that does not make you an offensive genius is, I think,
Matt Patricia learned this.