How Bill Belichick can change the Patriots offense to get Mac Jones RIGHT

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Phil Perry welcomes in Matt Cassel so the two can break down Phil’s three-point plan for making Mac Jones and the Patriots offense more successful coming off the BYE and discuss just how dramatically a team can change it’s strategy at this point in the season. 1:00- Phil shares his three-point plan 6:55- Matt Cassel joins to explain how much change an offense can implement during a BYE week and the most dramatic adjustment he was a part of during his career 10:48- Cassel shares his thoughts on Phil’s three-point strategy -Point #1: Shift away from zone runs -Point #2: Throw more on first down -Point #3: Embrace calling more RPO plays 22:18- Phil opens up the mailbag and answers some of your questions! Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MMf43F1Y0o0

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:15.3	Welcome into the next Pat's podcast.
0:17.2	I'm Phil Perry.
0:18.2	Have a really fun episode for you this week because we're still coming off the
0:22.0	buy. Lots to digest for the Patriots, lots to digest for those of us covering the Patriots
0:28.2	and to help us digest it all, we're bringing in Matt Castle. But before we do that, I wanted to
0:34.4	share a quick exchange I had with Bill Belichick. Again, coming out of the
0:38.2	buy, I'm curious. I think a lot of us are curious that follow this team, media, fans, or otherwise,
0:44.8	what can they do to change offensively? Because what they've been doing defensively is great.
0:50.8	It's been carrying them to a degree, but it's probably not enough, as Dante
0:54.4	Scarnacki told us last week, to be able to get them where they want to go in terms of making
0:58.6	a real run into the playoffs and having a chance to extend their season deep into January.
1:04.2	Right now, they are 28th in football when it comes to turning first downs into a fresh set of downs or a touchdown.
1:12.1	That's according to Ben Baldwin of the athletic.
1:14.8	Their 25th, the Patriots are, and expected points added per play.
1:18.8	So they're near the bottom of the league in terms of offensive efficiency.
1:23.1	They have arguably the toughest schedule moving forward in the second half of the NFL season here, ESPN's Football Power Index, their FPI, says they do have the number one toughest schedule through the next eight games.
1:36.1	So what can they do offensively to change?
1:39.4	Are they limited in terms of only being able to dive into what they used or what they implemented
1:46.5	during training camp.
1:48.3	That's what I asked Bill Belichick.
1:49.5	Here's our back and forth.
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