The 2022 season got here to an finish for the Patriots yesterday, as their loss to the Payments gave the staff an 8-9 file and stored them out of the postseason. That represents a disappointing end to the marketing campaign and has invited hypothesis about modifications being made on the sidelines.
One fixed which is able to stay heading into 2023 shall be head coach Invoice Belichick. The 70-year-old introduced on Monday that he’ll keep on because the Patriots’ bench boss for what shall be his twenty fourth season on the helm. He made it clear, nonetheless, {that a} thorough evaluate of the group will start, including that “we’ll have a look at the whole lot.”
Whereas Belichick’s announcement comes as little shock, it additionally included little in the way in which of particulars regarding the way forward for the staff’s offensive teaching workers. To interchange longtime offensive coordinator (and present Raiders head coach) Josh McDaniels, the Patriots elected to separate his obligations between ex-Pats staffers Matt Patricia and Joe Choose. The marked lack of expertise on the offensive facet of the ball for each of them led to loads of scrutiny main into, and through, the season.
New England completed the 12 months within the backside half of the league on a number of offensive fronts, averaging 331 yards and 21.4 factors per recreation. Second-year quarterback Mac Jones took a step again in a number of classes, resulting in one thing of a QB controversy when he was briefly changed by rookie Bailey Zappe as a consequence of an harm earlier within the season. Most significantly, the unit’s struggles have led to growing requires a brand new, extra skilled OC to be introduced in.
When requested about the way forward for Patricia and Choose within the group (or not less than of their present capacities), Belichick added, by way of Michael Hurley of CBS Boston, “We’ll consider the whole lot that we’ve performed – from me on all the way down to everyone else – and consider issues and make enhancements the place we really feel like we will. Once more, there have been a variety of optimistic issues over the 12 months in all areas that we will construct on, however ultimately, it wasn’t what we wish it to be or want it to be.”
Alabama OC – and fellow Patriots alum – Invoice O’Brien has been related to a possible emptiness for a similar position in New England. The curiosity between him and the Patriots, relying on which course the staff goes regarding Patricia and Choose, shall be price monitoring within the offseason. In any case, the established order shall be in place for not less than another 12 months in regards to the staff’s chief on the sidelines.
