Peter King questions Bill Belichick’s job security with Patriots
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick recently stated it’s too late in the season to make significant changes to New England’s heavily criticized and underperforming offense.
But in his latest column for NBC Sports, NFL analyst Peter King is questioning whether Belichick’s bullishness may end up costing him his job. The Patriots haven’t won a playoff game in three years and they haven’t won more than 10 games since the 2019 season.
“I’ve started to wonder — and I emphasize started — whether Bill Belichick, who needs 21 wins to break Don Shula’s all-time record for coaching victories, will get them in New England,” King wrote . “I think Robert Kraft, who is 81 and will enter his 30 th year of Patriots ownership in 2023, is not in this to rebuild deliberately. He has to be looking at the dung show on the Patriots’ offensive staff and wondering why Belichick left the offense so wanting this year. Anyway, I can’t see anything weird happening this year. But I have my antennae up about the Patriots for 2023.”
New England ranks 24th in total offense (318.9 yards per game) and 20th in scoring (20.8 points per game).
With Matt Patricia calling offensive plays, quarterback Mac Jones has seemingly regressed. The second-year QB ranks 26th in passing yards (1,963), 22nd in passing yards per game (218.1), 30th in touchdowns (7), and 24th in passer rating (87).
Jones has just one game with multiple touchdown passes this year, down from seven last season, and he has just two games with a passer rating of 90 or better after totaling 10 such games last year.
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