Jones & Keefe: The Patriots' identity is playing and coaching scared

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00:00Their identity is soft as much as it is scared, they're afraid.

00:03They play scared.

00:04They coach scared.

00:05They coach scared.

00:06They're, like, afraid.

00:08Right from their first decision was, do we start Drake May week one?

00:12They were too afraid to do it.

00:13Scared to death.

00:14They were scared.

00:15Yeah.

00:16Right from week one.

00:17Like, they've never been bold, aggressive, and, you know, a team that is trying to win.

00:23Like, Shaughnessy puts it perfectly.

00:24Yeah.

00:25They're afraid.

00:26They're not coaching to win.

00:27They're coaching not to lose.

00:28They're scaredy cats.

00:30That is the team identity.

00:31And I think on some level it trickles down to the players, but my bigger gripe is the

00:34way they coach it.

00:36That's their identity.

00:38And you just know, any time there's a big decision in the game, they're going to go

00:42conservative.

00:43Can't trust them.

00:44They're going to go soft.

00:45They're afraid to turn it over as opposed to trying to go win the game.

00:49And I think, Keith, that's born out of job security.

00:53I think everybody down there is worried about losing their jobs and making an egregious

00:56mistake and screwing it up and getting fired for it and being held accountable for it.

01:01And so they wind up making terrible decisions out of being conservative.

01:05They're afraid.

01:06Yeah.

01:07That could be.

01:08And you hope that they can see Drake May and that kind of snaps them out of it.

01:11It'd be like, all right, are we doing the best for him?

01:14And this is the guy that can lead us out of this.

01:16Like, this team has stunk for a couple of years.

01:18You have the quarterback now.

01:20You can give him opportunity like, yeah, he might turn it over every once in a while.

01:24Not the end of the world.

01:26But he also is going to make a lot more plays.

01:27Like, if you give him the chance to make more plays, I think they're going to outweigh any

01:30kind of negative play.

01:32So it's one thing to coach that way when you have Jacoby Brissette or if you had Mack Jones

01:36or Bailey Zappi.

01:37You don't have that guy.

01:38You don't have any of those guys anymore.

01:39You have Mack.

01:40You have Drake May.

01:41So let him make plays and hopefully that can change them a little bit.

01:46Now, it's a combination, right?

01:48You're going to need Alex Van Pelt to call a little bit more aggressive play calling.

01:52But then also Gerard Mayo, when it comes to those overall head coaching decisions,

01:57you know, when to punt, when not to punt, like just how aggressive you are, what's fourth

02:00down territory, what is and all that stuff.

02:02I don't know if you're going to get a big major change from those guys.

02:05But you would think if they want to keep their jobs, that has to be one of like the selling

02:10points.

02:11Like, all right, I know we started out really conservative, but like we feel like now we

02:14have the confidence in Drake May.

02:16This is this is what's better for the team going forward.

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