A familiar theme will recur as we plow through our positional breakdown of the New England Patriots. Last season’s offensive performance and production comes with an asterisk. The offense was uncoordinated.
All positions were affected. But wide receiver may have been the spot most profoundly undone by the team spending spring and summer changing the scheme and stressing downfield aggressiveness then pivoting from that when it realized it couldn’t block long enough to let that happen.
Time wasted, an offense without an experienced coordinator/playcaller never looked in sync. That fact was pointed out all season long.