Are players or coaches at fault for Pats’ woes? Curran weighs in

Are players or coaches at fault for Pats’ woes? Curran weighs in originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

As the New England Patriots limp into the bye week, it’s a good time to play the blame game for their disastrous 2023 season.

There’s plenty of blame pie to go around. Mac Jones’ job as the starting quarterback is in jeopardy after another awful performance in the team’s Week 10 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Bill Belichick continues to be under scrutiny for his unsuccessful roster-building and his poor head-coaching record without Tom Brady as his signal-caller. Both the offensive line and the wide receiving corps have been major issues all year.

Our Patriots insider Tom E. Curran assessed the situation on the latest edition of Quick Slants.

“The team is getting worse. The players aren’t getting any better,” Curran said. “And the one who did, the shining example of the Patriots being able to develop players, that was Jakobi Meyers and the team let him walk. And they brought in someone in JuJu Smith-Schuster who they had never met before to do the job, and he hasn’t.”

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Are the players or the coaches — namely Belichick — more to blame for the team’s nightmare season? If you ask Curran, trying to determine who’s more at fault is a fool’s errand. It’s a “chicken or the egg?” scenario that isn’t worth debating.

“It starts with the product on the field and the way the players play. So either the players aren’t good enough or the coaching isn’t good enough. Or it’s both,” Curran said. “But the bottom line is, we know who’s in charge of it all. Nobody coached Mac Jones to underthrow Mike Gesicki by 25 feet and leave Kraft’s prized possession an international laughingstock. But it happened. And it happened for a lot of reasons. Is the main reason that Jones isn’t good? Or did he make the situation around him get worse and worse to the…

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Publish date : 2023-11-14 23:59:41

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