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Bill Belichick's organizational multi-tasking may be spreading his personnel too thin. This year the Patriots have Nick Caserio (a front office person) also coaching the DB's and now a unseasoned Quarterback's coach working with the Head coach on calling offensive plays! Why can't the Patriots hire a designated Offensive Coordinator or Defensive Backs coach?? I know they didn't believe in giving former Coordinators Charlie Weiss and Romeo Crennel pay raises but are the Patriots this cheap or is Belichick this much of a control freak?
Either way, it may be catch-up with him and the Patriot's are suffering because of it.
With Rodney Harrison and Teddy Bruschi retiring and no Josh McDaniel calling plays to help Tom Brady allude all the blitz packages and ease back from injury, the Patriots were already depleted from last year. On top of that Coach Bill Belichick traded Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Russ Hochstein and Ellis Hobbs for draft picks.
The draft pick he got from KC for Vrabel and Matt Cassel was used to pick Pat Chung who didn't play one down on defense in the embarrassing loss to the New York Jets last week. Also, for a coach who doesn't believe in looking past the next week's opponent, Belichick trades an All-Pro in Seymour for a draft pick in 2011.
I'm not sure if the Patriots are secretly rebuilding but aside from Jerod Mayo, they haven't had a lot of luck in the draft latelty (solid 3rd and 4th rounders like O’Connell and Thomas were recently let go for nothing). This is made worse by the fact that Tom Brady, Randy Moss, and Wes Welker are in their prime right now and the Patriots are facing one of most competitive schedules this year. On top of that, for some reason Belichick decided not to hire a pure Offensive Coordinator or even sign an experienced back-up QB this year to help Brady.
So no pass-rush or leadership on Defense and no direction and support on Offense makes me think that with all these (non) moves, the old football coach has already let Brady, Moss, and the 2009 team down.
Bill Belichick's organizational multi-tasking may be spreading his personnel too thin. This year the Patriots have Nick Caserio (a front office person) also coaching the DB's and now a unseasoned Quarterback's coach working with the Head coach on calling offensive plays! Why can't the Patriots hire a designated Offensive Coordinator or Defensive Backs coach?? I know they didn't believe in giving former Coordinators Charlie Weiss and Romeo Crennel pay raises but are the Patriots this cheap or is Belichick this much of a control freak?
