Okay, for starters, I’m not going to even touch on this whole “Spygate 2” nonsense, because that’s just what it is: nonsense.

Now, it’s easy to sit back and criticize the obvious: with exception to this past game against Buffalo, the offense isn’t getting the job done, the offensive line is getting pushed around, and Tom Brady doesn’t look, and hasn’t quite looked like an elite quarterback thus far.
It seems as though the Patriots have only put points on the scoreboard in a few specific scenarios. Either the defense comes up with a turnover and gives the offense a short field, or the defense scores themselves. I can’t quite count on my hand the amount of full-field drives that lead to touchdowns this season, and part of that blame has to at some point be put on both Brady and Josh McDaniels. Are the Pats limited in terms of weapons? You could say that. It looked early on in the season that it would be an all out arsenal for Brady to throw footballs to; now, not so much. There’s an injured Edelman, an injured Sanu, rookie Jakobi Meyers, and rookie N’Keal Harry (excluding the RB’s).
My issue with Tom Brady stems from his (seemingly) unwillingness to trust Harry or Meyers. Early on in the season when asked about both Meyers and Harry’s progress, Brady seemed to talk about them condescendingly, like he didn’t want to take the time to work with them, and it looks like that has translated into how the offense has appeared to hit a wall. Has Meyers dropped some key passes? Yes. Did Harry miss the first eight weeks due to injury? Yes. However, that shouldn’t exclude the veteran that Tom Brady is from mentoring the two and nudging them in the right direction.

All that being said, Nick Folk is making big field goals for the Patriots (who would’ve thought that sentence would ever exist), and the Pats have done something no other NFL team has done, and that is clinch their respective division for an entire decade.

First round bye secured, now lets hope that whole consistency thing kicks in.

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