Felger & Mazz: Thoughts on the current state of the New England Patriots
The New England Patriots have fallen to 2-10 after their 6-0 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday at Gillette Stadium. On Monday’s Felger and Mazz, the guys gave their thoughts on the loss and the current state of the Patriots.
What’s the current state of the New England Patriots?
Mazz: I mean, it’s wretched. Like it gets worse and worse every week. Look, I think I put in the email, I feel like I’m going through the stages of grief. Every week I have a different emotion. This one was more apathy than anything else. I’m not used to feeling that on a Sunday evening or on a Monday morning. You look at them and you go, “well, nothing changed”. They still suck and they’re not getting any better.
Jim Murray: No, but they hit new levels of suck each week. This is the thing, for five straight weeks I’ve said going into these games, “I mean, it can’t possibly get worse” and somehow it does. I thought rock bottom was last week against the Giants coming out of the bye. That game, comparatively speaking, was like Super Bowl 49 compared to this piece of crap yesterday. 6-0? 6-0? “Oh, the weather” the weather? That’s as inept as inept gets. The Chargers are obviously complicit too. Those teams are terrible. But every week for the better part of a month, “it can’t possibly get worse”, and somehow it does. And there’s five more games. There’s five more to go.
Felger: You’ve now lost three straight games holding the opponent to 10 points or less. The last time that happened was 1938. 1938. Almost 100 years ago. It was the Chicago Bears, who I will just add parenthetically, have been playing the exact same way the entire 100 years. So you’re doing something that hasn’t been done in 100 years of NFL football. So it’s not just that you’re losing, it’s not just that you’re 2-10 or whatever, it’s how you’re doing it. It is mind numbing that it has come to this.