The New England Patriots allowed 402 whole yards Sunday and trailed by as many as 15 factors in a 28-22 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at Gillette Stadium.
Which is why Jerod Mayo’s postgame prognosis of how the sport unfolded raised just a few eyebrows.
“I by no means actually felt like they’d management of the sport. I felt like we had management of the sport,” the Patriots head coach informed reporters in his press convention.
Care to clarify, Jerod?
“When you take a look at the primary half, I believe we solely had one three-and-out offensively,” Mayo added. “I assumed (the offense) did an excellent job on first and second down, which is without doubt one of the targets that we talked about. Defensively, not a lot. Defensively, they solely had eight third downs within the sport, and also you simply cannot win that method.
“When you take a look at the time of possession — for those who take a look at the motion we had offensively within the run sport and within the go sport — that is a part of the method. We have simply received to proceed to construct on it.”
The Patriots did, in reality, win the time-of-possession battle by a large margin (37:20 in comparison with the Rams’ 22:40). However that was partly as a result of their protection allowed L.A. to attain so rapidly: The Rams had two landing drives of below one minute due to Cooper Kupp’s 69-yard TD catch and Matthew Stafford’s 19-yard strike to Chandler Parkinson instantly after a Drake Maye fumble.
In truth, New England allowed Stafford and Co. to score four touchdowns over just two quarters with a ridiculous offensive success price of 80 % in that span.
Since their first landing drive within the second quarter, the Rams have an offensive success price of 80 %.
That is… extraordinarily excessive. Patriots haven’t any solutions.
(Ravens had one of the best offensive success price within the league coming into Week 11 at 50.2 %.)
— Phil Perry (@PhilAPerry) November 17, 2024
The Patriots did some issues properly Sunday. Rookie quarterback Drake Maye threw for a career-high 282 passing yards with two touchdowns, whereas the offense transformed on almost 50 % of its third downs (6 for 14). To say they’d “management” of this sport could be a stretch, nonetheless, particularly since they led for fewer than eight minutes of whole sport time.
Count on Mayo’s feedback — and a few of the coaching staff’s questionable decisions — to garner some dialogue within the coming days after New England dropped to 3-8 with the loss.
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