i am working with mac along with you
know small few on the offense and
working with all the skill group on
offense i'd say all of us are working
collectively all right as a coaching
unit to work with the entire office i
got a chance to see him last year in
training camp practices and all that and
he's done a great job coaching us and
he's seen a lot of football i mean
obviously he's been around football for
a long time whether that be as a head
coach special teams you know playing the
position himself so he has knowledge
that is very beneficial to me as a
quarterback and
obviously i'm going to learn with him
that's the the goal is to kind of you
know teach each other and move along and
take what he knows and then take the
experiences that i have and combine them
and work together as a great team
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you can just feel the stress from mac
jones don't say anything dumb don't say
anything that's going to make coach mad
don't say anything i shouldn't say
just say pretty much nothing but i said
a few things joe judge
you're swapping out josh mcdaniels for
joe judge josh mcdaniel is now the head
coach of the raiders joe judge former
coach of the giants with special teams
coordinator with the patriots now he's
back and he's doing something we don't
know what but he's doing something on
the offensive side of the ball which
includes obviously working
with mac jones i mean look this is the
bottom line and we see this with
quarterbacks chris one of the reasons
they get ruined one of the reasons they
don't live up to their potential they
don't reach their ceiling is they don't
have continuity in the coaching staff
from one year to the next and this is a
critical year for mac jones to not have
josh mcdaniels who was a big reason for
his success last year yeah no no it is
it's a critical year there's no question
yes i mean josh mcdaniels is special as
we talk about all the time and he's
definitely one of the best play callers
in football over the last 15 and 20
years i mean some would argue maybe he's
the best so he's he's like as far as mac
jones yeah he's losing a little bit of a
support system a guy with great
knowledge tricks creativity no question
about it no that's that's a big loss but
at the same time it's less concerning in
this place as compared to others it's
new england and it's bill belichick and
they are the place that yes can get away
with this because of bill belichick you
know belichick is he's he's very
hands-on with the quarterbacks as well
so he's not it's not like he's over
there you know sipping pina coladas
going hey joe you'd figure it out with
the quarterbacks he's got his eye and
pulse on it i guarantee he's in those
meeting rooms a little bit
coaching them through a little bit as
he's coaching joe judge so he can kind
of see and take his lead that would be
at least my experiences there seeing
that and knowing that
how bill belichick operates i would
think he's a little more involved in the
quarterbacks than usual
and the thing about bill belichick he
has years ago evolved past that label
that he's a defensive coordinator
definitely a defensive coach he is just
a football coach he coaches the whole
team he's involved with everything
offensive and defensive and now with
josh mcdaniels gone he's going to be
as involved in the offense as he's ever
been maybe more involved than he's ever
been and they're building this mystery
and i still don't know what the purpose
of it is where the various assistants
aren't talking about what they do the
players aren't talking about who's doing
what and one of the most important
aspects obviously for the patriots this
year will be who is calling the plays
when they have the ball here is bill
belichick and we apologize in advance
for the quality of the audio but anytime
bill belichick speaks there's a good
chance the audio is not going to be good
because it's a series of grumbles and
grunts and snorts here is question and
answer posed to bill belichick about who
will be calling the plays on offense
this season
have those jobs
been specified
for joe and matt in particular they told
us that you know joe's been working with
the quarterbacks and that a little bit
with the offensive line but
those guys have titles yes
yeah look there's a lot of jobs that we
have to do we're all working on those
things now it's it's many
they'll change in june they'll change in
august they'll change in september
so
we've all do things timely that we need
to do
and if you're asking about game plans
we're putting months away from them
maybe not game plans but how about like
the one role that we asked those two
guys about what's the play caller role
is is that one
from having a play calling
what plays with it
well you can't please
yeah maybe i don't know
do you know who will call offensive
plays or another process you'll play on
over the course of the off season
yeah when we get to it we'll get to it
bill you've said you've called plays you
haven't called plays is it an option for
you to call offensive plays this year
call them and i'll have them call them
and other people who call them
so
we'll see
i've called them and i haven't called
them other people have called them and
they haven't called them at one point an
ad no bull flashed on the
screen behind bill belichick which is
very appropriate there was a lot of bull
there i just don't understand why they
don't want to say how do you not go into
your ota season
knowing who's going to be calling the
plays and maybe the truth is it's always
been amorphous and vague like this we
just never bothered to ask because we
just assumed josh mcdaniel was calling
the plays maybe bill belichick was
involved i mean the head coach always
has that veto sure for whatever is going
on yes maybe he's been involved in
calling plays a lot more than we ever
recognized well i mean
to your first thing it is odd i mean we
usually see play callers and you know
like we talked about a little last week
they establish a you know a command
system oh here's the office of
coordinator and now everybody kind of
you know fall in line and listen to it
but i think because of a lot the amount
of moving parts and coaches they've lost
and whatever
it seems like it's a little bit of like
work in progress
we'll see who earns it or you know where
this goes i think that's what bill
belichick's doing and to to the second
point you were talking there mike
they there is no plays being called i
know they're at practice and people
going wait there's play there's practice
but it's not like we're on the sideline
and the guy's like oh hey what's the
defense in oh okay we got to go to this
play no the practice is pre-scheduled
already belichick the new england way
what they do they start with the
training wheels every year
that's just what they do as i've told
you before whether playing against them
in the preseason working there a little
bit you know knowing how they implement
things as is playing for josh mcdaniels
it's gonna be like no here's the here's
the 10 plays we're playing today or
practicing today these are a real base
part of our offense and we're going to
master these for a few days and we're
not gonna really move on to the next
plays until we do that and as i've told
you before like same with defense it'll
be like here's cover two and here's
cover three and when i feel like we've
got cover two and cover three down then
we'll start talking about the next
coverage and go from there so there is
no need for a play caller because right
now belichick is scheduling the
practices the way he wants and going
okay hey offense i want you to run this
play in defense we're going to run this
defense and we're going to use that
against each other to coach and make
each other better that way so it is not
necessary it's just odd and rare in the
nfl to not have it
how about this fact assuming that josh
mcdaniels was indeed the play caller for
the past 10 seasons and based upon what
belichick said yesterday i don't know
what to believe anymore on that point he
was for the past 10 years the patriots
were in the top 10 in points scored 9
out of 10 times special
you think of them as
a defensive team and that's how they got
started first wave of their dynasty but
they really did supercharge the offense
starting in 2007 even though they didn't
win the super bowl that year obviously
but they became more of an offensive
juggernaut definitely and uh and a
balanced team in more recent years and
uh somebody's gonna be calling the plays
and and this i still chris at some level
believe
that
that bill belichick is trying to
centralize responsibility
he's trying to reduce the pressure and
the scrutiny of the individual assistant
coaches because i think he knows
i think he knows if he didn't know
before they got the crap kicked out of
them by the bills
in prime time to end their 2021 season
was it 47 to 17 was that the score
something seemed like that's off the top
of my head and his son steve supposedly
the de facto defensive coordinator
that's the kind of performance that
defensive coordinators get fired for
look what happened to the special teams
coordinator of the packers after that
debacle in the divisional round against
the 49ers what happened he's gone
well bill isn't going to fire one of his
kids
and if you ain't going to fire one of
your kids
it makes it harder to hold other people
on the staff accountable as well
and you you remove that storyline you
remove that
avenue for criticism or at least you
minimize it if no one really knows
what the various staff members even do
and i really think at some level he is
trying to protect himself
and the two kids of his that work for
him from an awkward spot
by
keeping it very
very deliberately confusing as to who's
doing what i feel like at some level
that's part of the genius of bill
belichick
circling the wagons around the coaching
staff i i don't doubt that i mean i i
don't like think you're crazy for that
thought and i think it could really add
you know you brought this up last week i
think that could filt over even though
they're not his family to the offensive
side of the ball to have those same
thoughts i'm just going wait i'm not
gonna make this guy the marked man i'm
not gonna do that to him to where oh man
now the first two weeks we don't play
great on offense and it becomes a story
because hey you know
name you know johnny the new officer
coordinator stinks diver and that
becomes a thing so i i would think you
know again this is like one of the
greatest most well-thought-out human
beings in the history of the planet let
alone just a football coach
there's there's certainly you know more
to it to that i also think too that you
know even with stephen belichick if he
you know calling plays last year on the
defensive side of the ball you know
again
i don't think it was just like hey
steven call whatever you want you know
just go you know what to do
that's just not the way things work
there in new england they know going
into the game like hey this has been
talked about belichick has discussed it
thoroughly and mapped it out with him
and gerard mayo when we get third down
in these situations here's the two or
three d events as you call when we're in
second down so even though he's calling
the plays it's still backed up by the
rest of the staff too that way um but
yeah i mean you bring up an interesting
point but and i don't think you're
necessarily wrong i think there's
probably some logic to that
to the officer side like i was saying
and i think the logic on the offensive
side would be
you want to avoid a situation where
those guys are feeling the heat and they
recognize hey bill's making it
deliberately vague on the defensive side
so he never has to fire anybody because
he can't fire his kids which means he
can't fire anybody else because then
you're applying a double standard so
it's all very blurry and it's not blurry
for us we're the ones who are getting
picked on we're the ones who are getting
called out we're the ones who are
potentially in jeopardy so i think
belichick realizes you can't blur half
the team you got to blur it completely
if you're going to do this it's got to
be blurred everywhere and you're giving
nobody anything about who's doing what
it's going to be fascinating to watch
we've never dealt with this before no
where we don't know what the duties are
of the coaches
and he's kind of been moving in that
direction in recent years with the
defensive side you never quite know
who's calling plays he doesn't give out
the title of coordinator very often uh
and now maybe maybe uh the same thing is
going to apply across
hi i'm mike tarico and thanks for
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