3 reasons this is Bill Belichick's last year as Pats' head coach

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – NOVEMBER 24: DeVante Parker #1 of the New England Patriots looks on against the Minnesota Vikings in the second quarter of the game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings defeated the Patriots 33-26. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images) /

3 reasons this is Bill Belichick’s last year as Pats’ head coach

Extremely puzzling decisions have been made in recent seasons

Bill Belichick seems to be overthinking this and trying to be more clever than he needs to be. Some of the decisions he’s made over the last few seasons have been puzzling, to say the least.

Signing Cam Newton after hardly playing the year before and not playing well was a bad move. It’s clear that Newton was well over the hump, and the 2020 season effectively was a wash because of it.

The Patriots could have opted to trot out an even lesser QB to try and net a higher draft pick, but them trying to make it work with Newton was a silly move.

Another weird move was parting with a third round pick to land DeVante Parker from the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins felt so highly of Parker than they weren’t concerned about trading him in the division. It’s not that Parker is a bad player–he isn’t, but giving up a third round pick for an aging receiver who doesn’t have WR1 potential was a silly move.

And perhaps the most obvious puzzling move here was putting Matt Patricia and Joe Judge in charge of the offense for 2022. What was Bill Belichick thinking? It clearly didn’t work and the Patriots’ offense as a whole entirely regressed to the point where no one truly knows what Mac Jones is anymore.

These decisions have set the team back further and should be enough to force Belichick to step aside at the end of the season.

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