Patriots’ Playcalling Mystery: Who is New England’s Offensive Coordinator?

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Question: who’s calling offensive plays for the New England Patriots this season? Head Coach Bill Belichick has dodged the question thus far, saying that the team is “going through a process.” And while assistant coaches Matt Patricia and Joe Judge split playcalling duties in the Patriots’ first preseason game…the answer may lead right back to the man who’s always been considered a defensive mastermind: Bill Belichick himself. Seth Wickersham explains what’s going on in Foxborough, and whether Bill Belichick is secretly a master of the other side of the ball as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Seth Wicker-Sham, I am not one of those people who is obsessed with the NFL preseason,
0:06.0	but there is this one question that I am fascinated by and I feel like you are the ideal person
0:11.1	to try and unpack it for us. So thank you for joining me. My pleasure. So let me ask it to you very
0:16.7	bluntly. Who is calling the offensive plays in New England in the year 2022? That's a great question
0:24.7	and the short answer is that nobody knows. They do not have anyone with the title of offensive
0:34.0	coordinator in New England. Against the Giants in New England's first preseason game, Matt Patricia
0:40.9	and Joe Judge eat split the job. Both of them calling offensive plays a different moments in the
0:45.4	game, but neither of them has the title anywhere near in the realm of offensive coordinator. And in
0:50.8	fact they have these kind of funny titles that only the New England Patriots can get away with.
0:56.0	Matt Patricia, the former head coach of the Detroit Lions, is the senior football advisor
1:00.8	slash offensive line coach. And Joe Judge, the former head coach of the New York Giants,
1:06.9	is the offensive assistant slash quarterback coach. Yeah, all of this has big. I'm the assistant
1:13.5	regional manager, not the assistant to the regional manager energy running through it, Seth.
1:18.8	Exactly. And I think that beyond the question of who's calling plays and how the offense will go
1:25.3	because New England's running a new offense this year, it's one of those fascinating aspects of the
1:31.5	game from which you can distill everything that Bill Belacek is and has always wanted to be as a
1:37.7	head coach. His entire philosophy of adaptability, flexibility, refusal to adhere to norms,
1:44.7	willingness to take risks and accept the fallout that might result. It's all in there. And that's
1:50.2	what makes this so interesting to me. Seth, it also feels to me from the outside, at least like
1:56.2	an episode of succession, right? Like here is the patriarch, here is the withholding dad,
2:02.3	refusing to hand out this very high profile job to his children. Do you know if one will call
2:08.8	plays when the regular season arrives? Yeah, well, don't worry about that. We'll work it out.
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