Robert Kraft Says The Coaching Is Better to Help A Quarterback

By Steve Atkinson 

Last Thursday and Friday the Patriots sent nine people to the pro days of Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye. If you don’t think they are drafting a quarterback at three then that should tell you otherwise. This offensive coaching staff is very different than in years past. It has a mix of the Packers and Browns offense. This new change could do some good for the Patriots that’s had the same offense for 24 years only for it to derail that last two due to bad coaching and players around the quarterback.

Robert Kraft On The Coaching Staff

Robert Kraft spoke at the owner’s meetings and said this.

I think Alex Van Pelt has great experience. I don’t think the last couple years, how we handled the offense, speaking as a fan, it wasn’t the kind of approach we wanted.”

Putting Matt Patricia and Joe Judge to run the offense was horrendous. Then getting Bill O’Brien and to not put anything around Mac Jones with a weak offensive line and zero pass catchers was also horrendous. Mac Jones has more weapons in Jacksonville than he did his last two seasons with the Patriots.

Robert Kraft knows Zappe is probably going to get cut

Notice how the Zappe mania has been quiet since the remarks and the pro days. Zappe is gone and won’t be here by the time training camp starts. Jerod said that the Patriots will host JJ McCarthy, Drake Maye, and Jayden Daniels before the draft on April 25th.

Eliot Wolf and Jerod Mayo secretly in my opinion want to stick it to Belichick on how to properly develop a quarterback. Not only do you have to get the right players but also the right coaches as Jerod Mayo said at the owners meetings.

As you continue to develop a quarterback, it’s not only the players you put around him, but also the coaches that you put around this guy. Not only the coaches, but it can go all the way to the ops teams and things like that – to support a guy who plays the most important position in sports; and to ask him as a rookie to come in is always going to be tough. You get to Year 2, you want to see that jump. You get to Year 3 and you would want to see success like it’s a straight line, but realistically that’s not what it is. It’s like a bunch of ups and downs. I think just supporting a quarterback is one of the biggest things. I would also say this – bringing a guy like Jacoby in, he’s definitely a starter in this league. I would also say he’s a good mentor to quarterbacks across the league.”

Kraft, Mayo, and Wolf realize what Belichick did around Mac Jones the last two years wasn’t the best decision-making. They want a new approach that helps the rookie quarterback out so if Drake Maye does work out they can say we got it right this time. That is what Mayo and Wolf want to happen.

That is why the next pick at quarterback is so important if I had to with who they’d take it’s probably going to be Maye so they can sit him for a season. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was JJ McCarthy either who also could sit for a season. Jayden Daniels can probably play right away and having Maye sit it’s like what Green Bay did with Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love. The Packer Way of developing a quarterback.