After the Patriots 27-17 defeat to the Chiefs on Sunday — taking the team’s 2023 record to 3-11 — Bill Belichick once again acknowledged that his team missed opportunities due to penalties.
“There were a lot of big plays in the game,” he told reporters afterward. “We had a couple turnovers, had one called back. Had another touchdown called back. So there were a number of key plays in the game that could’ve helped a little more than the way they turned out.”
Both sequences that were called back due to New England penalties would have otherwise resulted in potential game-changing sequences.