New England Patriots rumors: Big news about OC is a lot of baloney

Stop the presses: FLASH, the New England Patriots are interviewing people for their “vacant” offensive coordinator job.

Talk about making a big deal out of little.

All the talk is about their possibly interviewing outside candidates. Oh my, what a major story that is! If it weren’t so ridiculous it would be absolutely comical. A real joke of a story.

Anyone they choose, and please, in all sincerity, don’t bet anything on anyone not a Friend of Bill (FOB) or you’ll be out cash in a hurry.

Let’s face facts, all this most likely came from the face-to-face “discussions” shall we say of owner Mr. Robert Kraft with head football honcho, grumpy and stodgy Bill Belichick.

Transparency in the process? Oh my goodness, steady yourself with this development. The process of bringing in candidates in public had to have come from Kraft. No such epiphany is likely to have come from BB, for certain.

Transparency? That’s been a nasty word around Foxborough for the past 22 years. And you can add surly press conferences to that as well.

Is there a new New England Patriots emerging?

The answer to that interrogatory is an emphatic, NO WAY. BB will go as far as Mr. Kraft has told him to go in their confrontation, er … meetings recently. It’s a foreign concept. Don’t expect anything new in the way of outcomes from all this phony business.

Unless Kraft told BB to go outside the FOB circle (and that includes not going for a Bill O’Brien type, a definite FOB, though not a bad choice), don’t count on anything but the same old tripe.

BB still believes that he was the guy who created the Massachusetts Miracle 2 (the six Super Bowl wins plus) from 2001 to 2019. It wasn’t. Anyone looking at this objectively knows it. It was Tom Brady all the time.

Opinion? No, fact. Belichick’s mediocre career coaching record without Brady (79-87) shouts from the rafters of the top deck of Gillette Stadium. Now that Brady is three seasons gone, there should be no doubt whatsoever that Brady was the driving force behind all the wins, all the AFC titles, and all the Super Bowl trophies.

It says here that, in fact,  terrible general management by BB kept the Patriots from double-digit SB wins for certain. How often did he give Brady the top receiving weapons that should have been offseason priority number one every offseason? The answer was, seldom. Think Randy Moss and not really any other time.

New England Patriots offensive coordinator search is much ado about little

Back to the offensive coordinator search. This is a manufactured story that the desperate Boston media has latched onto like a hungry wolf on a bone because there is never been much like that going on in the public eye in Foxborough, far from it.

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So here’s the likely outcome, names will come in and candidates will go out. In the end, that familiar FOB will almost certainly be selected as the”new” offensive coordinator. He’ll toe the BB  line, and run whichever offense from the past BB decides (the successful one, under Josh McDaniels, or the disastrous one in 2022 under Matt Patricia).

Then things will settle back to the new normal, mediocrity, in Foxborough. They’ll stumble along again to maybe 10-7, but more likely their new norm, a 9-8 or 8-9 record.

That syndrome will persist for a couple/few more years until Don Shula’s win record is surpassed and Mr. Kraft brings in a completely new regime to run the Patriots’ football operation. And you can take that prediction to the bank.

(Note: The hope here is that ESPN’s Louis Riddick is the choice for the next President of Football Operations).

Robert Kraft made the biggest mistake of his football and probably his entire business career by letting Brady walk. He’s not going to make the same mistake twice and broom the other (at least perceived though not real) coaching GOAT and incur another PR blunder of monumental proportions. Not happening.

So unless we see the return of TB12 (totally unlikely), or the signing of Lamar Jackson as quarterback (should have been drafted in 2018, chances now, slim to none),  then expect the same old same old in Foxborough in 2023 and 2024.

All we can hope is the FOB chosen will not be an “offensive”, Offensive Coordinator. That’s the best we can hope for. It is what it is, the same tired old stuff from Foxborough. Depressing, isn’t it?