The Patriots Can Beat Bad Teams Regardless of the Quarterback

By: Steve Atkinson

The Patriots can beat bad team’s period. When Mac Jones and the Patriots went on that win streak against bad teams last October before the bye everyone bought in and said Bill Belichick found the next Tom Brady. Fast forward a year later and Bailey Zappe comes in and has two wins against bad teams and now he’s the next Tom Brady and Mac Jones is Drew Bledsoe. This is what the thinking is around here. Drew Bledsoe was in the league for a decade and threw Interception after interception. Mac Jones has played 20 games with the Patriots and were already benching him because Zappe beat the Lions and the Browns.

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Mac Jones isn’t the next Tom Brady, and neither is Zappe. Both have watched his film and have learned a lot from watching it, however, neither one of them will ever be Tom Brady. Let’s not forget the Patriots were about to beat the Packers when Patricia decided to be conservative in overtime and run the ball. All they needed was 20 yards. You get those yards with Mac at quarterback and win the game. You also beat the Lions and the Browns with Mac Jones at quarterback. No matter who starts on Monday they are beating the Bears also. They are like the Lions and the Browns just a different location.

Can we say that the Patriots have two quarterbacks that have the potential to grow in the organization? Mac Jones was established as a starter and grow with the team. Zappe also who just got playing time can clearly play in the NFL. Definitely a better backup than Brian Hoyer going forward. Also, when Mac comes back maybe run the play action more instead of the shotgun throw-it downfield calls for an interception. I think people need to relax this part of the schedule is very easy and should be wins. Bill Belichick spoke this week about the Bears and had a very lengthy opening statement.

“We’ve had a chance here to spend some time looking at the Bears. This is a pretty impressive group and really a young team that you can see getting better all the time. Coach [Matt Eberflus] has done a really good job here with installing his system and I think adapting to the personnel that they have there. Obviously, getting a lot of young players involved. It’s one of the youngest teams in the league. Offensively, [Justin] Fields is a major threat every time he touches the ball, very athletic kid. [Darnell] Mooney is really an outstanding receiver. He’s had a ton of production and I can see why. He’s very good at everything, plays multiple positions. In the slot a lot, but they’ll move him around and he’s had a ton of production. Then, of course the backs, [Khalil] Herbert and [David] Montgomery are very good. This running game is right there with Cleveland. I mean they literally have about the same exact amount of yardage. I think [Khalil] Herbert is leading the league in yards per carry. They’re very hard to tackle. They do a real good job with their running game and the play action game as well. A lot of explosive plays. Lead the league in yards per pass attempt. They’ve hit some big plays. Some of those are catch-and-run plays and then when you add on [Justin] Fields’ scrambles, which might count as running plays in the stats, but they’re actually passing plays, in terms of having to defend them. They’re really a lot of explosive plays there that are a problem.”

When Bill talks on and on about a bad team you know it’ll probably be a blowout. I honestly think the game will be over by halftime.