Bill Belichick wasn’t happy by a lot of something following the Patriots’ Thanksgiving evening loss to the Vikings.
The morning after?
That didn’t do a lot to change his temper.
The Patriots head coach nonetheless wasn’t joyful over what had transpired.
Asked concerning the controversial replay reversal on what seemed to be a Hunter Henry landing throughout the third quarter of the 33-26 loss, and the way a lot that modified the sport, Belichick seemed past the play.
“I don’t know. It was a four-point play,” he mentioned. “There were a lot of other things that happened besides that, so.”
High on the checklist was the play of the particular groups unit, and a number of other game-changing performs that occurred.
One was a 97-yard kickoff return instantly after the Patriots settled for a subject purpose following the Henry play, and the opposite a roughing the kicker penalty on Pierre Strong within the fourth quarter that set the wheels in movement for the Vikings eventual game-winning rating.
It appeared Kyle Dugger could have been held on the return, however Belichick didn’t use that for an excuse.
While Belichick thought the kickoff protection was good on the entire, that one play was a killer.
“That was a bad play,” Belichick mentioned of Kent Nwangwu’s landing return. “We had a couple of breakdowns on the play . . . obviously we gotta do a better job than we did. There’s a couple things on that play that came up that we didn’t do well enough.”
Strong’s roughing the kicker penalty, which set the Vikings up with a recent set of downs after the Patriots pressured a punt on 4th-and-3 with the rating tied, did the Patriots no favors.
“There were a couple of big plays there that really skewed the game,” mentioned Belichick. “Those were huge plays in the game that we didn’t do well.”
Returner Marcus Jones, the hero together with his last minute punt return towards the Jets, had one respectable return on a kick, gaining 46 yards, however a number of different probabilities on punts, basically went nowhere.
“They hit a couple of long balls,” Belichick mentioned of the Vikings punts, “we weren’t able to get the returns started, which we should have been able to do, but we (didn’t).”
The Patriots pressured a Vikings punt with slightly below a minute to play. Jones may have let the ball go for a touchback, however opted for the return as a substitute.
The outcome was the Patriots ranging from the 11-yard line with 53-seconds remaining. Belichick mentioned that was a troublesome determination.
“I think (you) take a shot at making a big play in that situation. If we had done a better job with their blocking and did a better job to get him started, we might have had a chance there,” mentioned. “That situation, you don’t have a lot of options right there. I’d say a punt return in that situation is not a bad option.”
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