You had an established
offensive coordinator last year, Josh, McDaniels Super Bowl
veteran and now you come into camp this year and it's sort of
offensive coordinator by committee, almost, I saw Bill,
Belichick a lot with the quarterbacks out here.
What's that? Like, what's the difference? Like
it's been good? I think you can learn from
really good coaches, regardless of,
you know, third defensive head coach or whatever, it doesn't
really matter. Spellcheck seen offensive football, you know
from
way back in the day to all the way and how its evolved. So he
knows exactly the origins of it. And obviously the defensive
part 2
where he can analyze the defense and put us in a good position
with the right play call
because he knows what the defense is doing. So
I'm really comfortable with our offense of coaching staff is
just getting the getting everything down. Getting
the play calls down, it's a little bit of a rhythm to it and
that's what we're going to work
on
and it's a process. It's not going to happen overnight but
we've made good strides. Didn't we just got to continue to do
that.
How much how long did it take you to get over the playoff
loss in Buffalo?
Yeah, I think you know, you never want to lose the last
game of the year. Your goal is really the way you lost it.
Exactly. And you have to think about, you know, you're only as
good or bad as your last game. So
that's all we have to base off of his
kind of that loss, but
there's learning experiences there.
We know what it takes to
win, you know, ten games and stuff, but we also have to move
on to this next season. Guys, it's a long season and you want
to kind of push towards the end
and play your best football at the end of the season which we
can do a lot better job of. But right now it's just all about
fundamentals and getting better and focusing on what's
important and that's getting together in the meetings,
the walkthroughs out here and practice and then
the season will take care of itself.
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Commander Street. I have a Mac Jones, gonna get a Patriots
thought off because I don't know what I'm going to be on
the show again.
Go ahead.
If anybody else was doing with the Patriots, are doing with
the second year QB,
we would be questioning the hell out of them. And I'm
willing to give Bill Belichick the benefit of the doubt
because he has six Super Bowl rings as a head coach. But oh
my God,
what
this is? I mean, if they start off poorly, I mean, they have
the Dolphins, sealers Ravens, and Packers to start
the season. It's a, they go 1 & 3,
which is entirely possible
or own God forbid,
Bill Belichick's gonna deserve a lot of the question that he's
gonna get. So I just, I just wanted to say, I agree with
you. Hey, those six Super Bowls.
They go a long way toward excusing, a lot of behavior.
That would otherwise be very questionable, including
a former head coach, who was a defensive coordinator, who's
now your offensive line coach. A former head coach, who was
a special teams coordinator who's now your quarterbacks coach,
nobody knows who's doing what on the coaching staff, because
I think he's trying to
Run interference for his kids so he never has to fire his
kids and he can't fire anybody else if he can't fire his kids.
So nobody knows what anyone's doing. So nobody knows who to
blame. I've been saying that for months. This is
the downside of nepotism.
If you hire your kids and your kids aren't getting it done,
you're screwed. So
six Super Bowl rings goes a long way. Toward buying him
some time. I just wonder how much time it buys in the eyes
of Bob. Kraft. We've already heard him complain
about. No playoff wins for three years.
What's the Great?
Period. We've never seen this before.
What's does six Super Bowl wins? Give you a job for life?
I don't think it does. I don't think you can start going 3 and
14 every year, there's going to be a point where
someone decides it's time to move on. You can't continue
indefinitely to fall so far short of the standards you
created. And as like, I'm going to be 3 and 14 but 89, thank
you.
One and out in the playoffs. That's not good enough.
No. And you some of the couple of months ago and I pushed back
Pretty hard against it. But at this point where I'm seeing,
Matt Patricia's, the one calling the offensive plays
like that's going to raise an eyebrow. And if it doesn't work
out, then it's going to be like, dude why in the world did
you do this?
I'd like so, I don't know. We'll see.
Like I said, Bill Belichick is some benefit of the doubt in my
book but you know like if they don't start out the season well
and like the offense looks terrible and Matt Jones look
substantially worse than he did last year and this is not going
to V good for them so it's not, it is so odd to see a guy like
Bill Belichick of all coaches, if
engage in that kind of, heaping of Praise on a guy
publicly and, and really, it's a major transition. Josh
McDaniels is gone, Mac Jones is going to go through a lot this
year. There's going to be a
lot expected of him and they're raising the bar.
Not lowering the bar, coaches are Masters
at keeping expectations low,
then all things being equal. It looks like you did better
than you. I actually did, if you were able to go into
the season with low expectations, it really is kind of a strange
time in New England. I agree with you there and you,
I'm glad that you decided to take your shot because
I think it hit the mark, all right?