NFL
By: Steve Atkinson
The Patriots aren’t beating the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night regardless the quarterback. Bailey Zappe looks calmer because he hasn’t been mentally destroyed by Belichick. The offense still looks awful they didn’t even score a point Sunday against the Chargers. Over confident Zappe thinks he’s Tom Brady and going to lift the offense to great things. Does he not understand the offense needs to do a lot better and he has no pass catchers?
The 2-10 Patriots will be 2-11 after Thursday. It doesn’t matter Kenny Pickett isn’t playing the Steelers will move the ball better with Mitchell Trubisky than Zappe with the no receiver Patriots offense. The Patriots have had some easy games recently and haven’t been able to come through. Zappe also through an interception in Germany and against the Giants. Zappe was asked Tuesday if he was starting Thursday.
Now that the Patriots have lost Stevenson due to injury their only running back will probably be Elliott. They won’t move the ball well Al Michael’s will be falling asleep by halftime that’s how bad this game is going to be for the Patriots.
The Patriots Should Be losing The Rest Of Their Games
The Patriots have the second overall pick currently in the draft and I’m not sure why you’d wanna win another game at this point. It’s really useless. But then again if Belichick is here next year it wouldn’t matter where they are in the draft he’ll still mess it up.
There is no way Belichick will be here after this season. What he did to the quarterback position is ridiculous and no excuse for it. Of course the defense looks good these last few weeks because that’s all Belichick cares about. Forget about the offense this is still 2003. Defense doesn’t win championships anymore it’s offense and it’s been like that since the second half of Brady’s time in New England.
I asked Melo Williams of Team NBS Media who he’d rather have Kenny Pickett or Mac Jones. You can follow him on Twitter @_melowilliams
My thoughts on QB’s Mac Jones and Kenny Pickett
Comparing the two, I think they’re very close with their skill sets. I would say Kenny Pickett is the better of the two though because he’s more athletic than Mac Jones.
If you put Mac Jones in the Steeler’s offense with the same scenarios that Kenny Pickett has had, I feel you would see similar results from Jones in Pittsburgh as we have with him in New England because the offensive playcalling would’ve still been horrible.
In my opinion, Jones and Pickett are both average game managers QBs, that’s it, that’s all.
Both Bailey Zappe and Bill Belichick take shots at Mac Jones
The quarterback room is so dysfunctional you now have Zappe taking shots at Mac Jones! Last week Belichick said this about Bailey Zappe.
Here is what Zappe said today about being under pressure.
It’s all jabs at Mac Jones which Belichick has ruined. Zappe, I hate to break it to you but your no better and Belichick didn’t ruin you like he ruined Mac. These jabs don’t happen on functional teams only dysfunctional teams. This alone should be it for Belichick he’s made the starter and backup hate each other because he didn’t want Mac in the first place.
