The Dysfunctional Duo
The Patriots season comes to an end. Fast and major changes are needed and happening. How does the roster shape up and what to do with Mac Jones? The Red Sox took a major blow and refuse to field a major league roster. PLUS Rich puts the kids to bed
Patriots Exit Interview
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
Off Season Steps for the Pats
Addressing the Patriots Roster
Mac Shaming
Devers in Story out
Simplest Minds of the Week
SHOW NOTES:
Cold Open
Opening Takes
Rich - Red sox
Bobby - Pats
Ray - Mac
Show round down
Patriots exit interview
- How it ended
- Offseason steps
- Mac Jones
Trevor Story news and the embarrassing Red Sox
Simplest Minds of the week
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Patriots Exit interview
Bills 35 - Pats 23
- 2 TDs returned for Bills
Best Pats have looked in awhile. Blew it
Miss the playoffs - Dolphins and Steelers win
Missed opportunities
- Raiders, Bengals, Packers
Vikings, Bears
In a Word 2022 Patriots were dysfunctional
- Underachieving
- how many steps backwards
Patriots Offensive Roster changes 2021 - 2022
- Shaq Mason - OUT
- Ted Karras - OUT
- Cole Strange IN
- Jakob Johnson - OUT
- Rookie RBs IN
- N'Keal Harry - OUT
- Devante Parker - IN
- Belichick exposed and firing back
* "29th in cash spending". (31st in cash spending past 7 years)
* Mac reaching out to other coaches for help
* Exit interview with Robert admits change is needed but will slow play any announcements.
How involved will Kraft be this offseason?
- Will These two will deal with each other until Bill breaks Shula's record with the Patriots
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
Off Season steps for Pats
1. Relieve Matt Patricia of OC duties
2. Fire Cam Achord 3. Hire OC - Kingsbury, Obrien, Nick Caley
4. What are you doing at DC? Mayo walks
5. Restructure some deals Jonnu Smith / judon/ henry/ godcheaux
6. Who to bring back
- Jonathan Jones
- Jackobi Myers
-Jabrill Peppers
- Damien Harris
- Mac Wilson
- Raekwon McMillan
- McCourty and Slater. Time to go
- Extend Dugger
7. Address roster holes
Biggest needs? LT - WR - CB
Draft/ sign/ trade OT / S / LB / DT Draft/ sign/ trade an outside corner Get a true number 1 WR weapon
Need a kicker and Punter
Mac Jones - Does he belong on the list
NFL.com
Ranked 26th QB
2022 stats: 14 games | 65.2 pct | 2,997 pass yds | 6.8 ypa | 14 pass TD | 11 INT (7 in first 5 weeks. 3 vs buffalo) | 102 rush yds | 1 rush TD | 5 fumbles
Back in July, Bill Belichick crooned over the "great job" Jones did as a rookie.
Bill's assessment coming out of Year 2? "Mac has the ability to play quarterback in this league."
Belichick also acknowledged the entire offense must grow into something more functional. It's a lock that changes are coming -- perhaps in the shape of Bill O'Brien -- but Mac deserved better this season. Why did play-caller Matt Patricia so forcefully drift away from what suited his starter? Jones piled up a 104.0 passer rating on play-action snaps -- with an 80.7 mark otherwise -- yet the Patriots employed play-action on just 16.5 percent of Jones' snaps, ranking him 38th out of 40 qualifying passers in this area. His tumble was grounded in mismanagement. He's set up as a bounce-back candidate if Foxborough's heavies can sort this mess out.
QUICK BREAK
Predicting the roster
QB - Mac
RB - Stevenson, Harris, Strong
WR - Hopkins
WR - Parker, Myers
WR - Bourne, Thorton
TE - Henry, Jonnu Smith
T - 1st round draft pick (Orlando Brown)
G - Cole Strange
C - Andrews
G - Ouwenu
T - Trent Brown
DT - Baremore, Godcheaux
DE - Wise
DE - Guy
LB - Judon
LB - Uche
LB - Bently
LB - Wilson ( high draft pick)
CB - Jonathan Jones, Marcus Jones, Jack Jones
CB - Trade/ sign/ draft #1 corner. Christian Gonzalas. Oregon Kelee Ringo - Georgia
SS - Dugger. Phillips
FS - Jalen Mills. Jabrill Peppers
K - No Nazi's
P - No Putz's
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
Trevor Story out. Red Sox embarrassed
- Story surgery to repair elbow (tommy john lite)
- missed time in 2021 because of it
- waited until January to get the surgery
Just to recap
- Bogeart would have taken the Story deal 6 - $140 million to stay
- instead they sign Trevor story for that deal
- In the mean time, Seager, trey turner, correa, swanson, Baez have all moved as top SS in the past 2 years. The sox let one go and picked the wrong one with a known injury history.
"I don't think we can sugarcoat it,'' said Bloom of the impact of the loss. "When Trevor was out there, we were a playoff-caliber team.''
- Now at this point you have zero of them. But Marcelo Mayer is 2 years away!!!
The Red Sox currently do not have a SS on the 40 man roster
Current Line up
Yoshida
Kike
Devers
Turner
Verdugo
Casas
Arroyo
TBD (Jarren duran. the only other CF on the roster)
McJerky
* Bobby Dalbec to the mound
* Jose iglesias or Elviz Andrus rumored to come play SS. #9 hitters
* Rumored Bryan Reynolds trade would lesson the blow - kike plays short
Currently +8000 to win the world series. Same odds as Cubs, Marlins, Diamondbacks, Tigers
Dog and Pony show announcing Devers signing
- Celebrating and carrying on about their surprise ALCS run in 2021 and finally being shamed into signing their own guy
All while lying to our faces about "top priority" Xander Boegarts and failing to sign any of the actual names they went after
"Every organization dreams of developing star players,'' said Bloom. "Raffy's a star. But he's not just a star -- he's our star.''
Tom Werner: We did not like what happened last year. The wheels came off. On the other hand, we were two games away from going to the World Series the year before and we believe that we were ahead of our plan.
"As for FSG, yes, it's true that we were looking for additional investors (with Liverpool); nothing has materialized, but that doesn't change our focus. We're precluded from making an investment in the NFL because of our partnership and institutional investors. But our heart and soul is with the Red Sox.''
At the start of Wednesday's press conference, the Red Sox had a video screen that listed about 40 names of people still in the organization who helped contribute to Devers' career, from instructors, to scouts, to minor league coaches to clubhouse attendants.
CRINGE
The 2023 season is done before it started and they are acting like they are building something.
"We're going to do this. And it's going to be awesome" - Chaim Bloom
Simplest Minds of the week
OBJ - fucked up from the club forced plane to deplane and 2 hours late
- unresponsive and pantsless
" ill fly private while you wait"