The Patriots benched veteran wide receiver Kendrick Bourne in Sunday’s win over the Bears, however that doesn’t imply he’ll stay out of the offensive sport plan.
Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo was requested Monday morning if he plans to proceed taking part in younger extensive receivers over Bourne.
“My aim as the pinnacle coach is to place the gamers on the market that give us the perfect probability to win,” Mayo stated. “Eliot [Wolf] and his employees, they’ve the laborious a part of making an attempt to get the roster in addition to we will get it now, but additionally searching for the long run. In the end, it’s my choice and my choice on a week-after-week foundation to place the perfect gamers on the market that give us the perfect probability to win.”
Kayshon Boutte led Patriots extensive receivers with 62 of 64 potential snaps. Veteran Okay.J. Osborn was second with 29 snaps, adopted by DeMario Douglas with 27 snaps, Ja’Lynn Polk with 26 snaps and Javon Baker with 4 snaps.
“It’s all the time been about competitors,” Mayo stated on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present.” “I stated that every one the best way again in coaching camp. It’s about competitors and who has that higher week of observe and who has that higher week within the walk-throughs and the assembly rooms. That’s what it’s.”
Total, Mayo was proud of how the Patriots’ extensive receivers carried out, praising their blocking and their capability to get open and catch the soccer.
Douglas led the group with 4 catches for 50 yards. Boutte had 4 catches for 47 yards, and Polk scored on a 2-yard landing reception.
The Patriots experimented with taking part in Mike Onwenu, who has flipped between proper guard and proper sort out, at left guard in observe final week. Onwenu wound up staying at proper guard, leaving Michael Jordan at left guard.
“It simply goes again to what’s the perfect lineup that provides us the perfect alternative to get motion up entrance and defend the quarterback, and that’s what we thought we have been doing,” Mayo stated of sticking with Onwenu at proper guard. “That was the thought behind it.”
If Onwenu had moved to left guard, then rookie Layden Robinson would have began in his place at proper guard.
The Patriots even have been shuffling snaps at backup operating again this season between Antonio Gibson, who performed extra closely early within the season, and JaMycal Hasty, who primarily performed in reserve of starter Rhamondre Stevenson on Sunday.
“I might simply say all three of these backs carry one thing completely different to the desk,” Mayo stated. “Once more, simply the final couple of weeks, it was extra of a Hasty sport than a Gibby sport. Look, that may be a week-after-week dialogue, not solely on the again spot, however at a number of positions on this group.”
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