FOXBORO — The Patriots misplaced in Week 1 to the Eagles, however issues may have gone rather a lot worse with the state of their offensive line.
Starting guards Cole Strange and Mike Onwenu each had been inactive Sunday, and rookies Atonio Mafi and Sidy Sow began of their place. Mafi was skilled at his left guard spot, having performed there for a lot of the summer season. Sow, who posted up at proper guard, had performed proper sort out all of coaching camp and preseason.
Head coach Bill Belichick was requested about Strange and Onwenu’s standing heading into Week 2.
“Oh yeah, I think they’ll eventually play,” Belichick stated. “We’ll see when that is. We’ll just take it day by day. Last time they practiced was Friday. So, it’s five days later. We’ll what kind of progress they’ve made.”
Onwenu spent a lot of the summer season on the PUP listing after present process ankle surgical procedure this offseason. Strange suffered a knee harm within the Patriots’ first padded observe of the summer season.
The Patriots allowed two sacks towards a stacked Eagles defensive entrance, and quarterback Mac Jones took the blame for each of them.
Belichick was additionally requested if extensive receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster was injured, and that’s why he wasn’t on the sphere for the Patriots’ last two-minute drill on the finish of the sport.
“We’ll get the injury report today,” Belichick stated. “You know what the injury report was and the injuries during the game and all of that. It’s the best I can tell you.”
Smith-Schuster was not on the Patriots’ harm report heading into Week 1. The Patriots didn’t announce any accidents throughout the sport.
Sources have instructed the Herald that the plan heading into the sport was to have rookie Kayshon Boutte exchange injured extensive receiver DeVante Parker within the X position and for Smith-Schuster, Kendrick Bourne and Demario Douglas rotate within the Z and slot. Bourne obtained 73 snaps to Smith-Schuster’s 43 and Douglas’ 33. Boutte was on the sphere for 55 offensive performs.
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