Breer: Somebody on Patriots staff will pay a price

On Friday's Toucher & Hardy program, Albert Breer explained why he thinks the New England Patriots offense is so bad.

Parts of conversation abbreviated for clarity.

Dan Roche: Besides Jerod Mayo, what about the rest of the Patriots staff? 

Albert Breer: I think there will be a pound of flesh extracted somewhere. But where? 

Roche: Do you think that’ll be on the defensive side of the football? 

Breer: I don’t know, but I think someone will pay a price. It's hard for me to say which side of the ball. But I mean, obviously, the head coach has a stronger connection with the defensive coaches than he does with the offensive coaches.  

But I would say this, I think the offensive coaches have had their hands tied behind their backs by the talent. From a talent perspective, the Patriots are the worst offense in the league. 

If you have the offensive line they have, it’s impossible to do many things right. I think that's one thing that people here have sold short.  

I think it's almost like this Dante Scarnecchia disease. You saw 20 years ago, he turned a guy from a college wrestler into a Pro Bowl offensive lineman. That’s not normally the way things work. There are four or five offensive line coaches like that at any given time on the planet.  

Right now, Tennessee has one in Bill Callahan and the Eagles have one in Jeff Stoutland. But, there aren't very many of those guys.  

The Patriots have a real deficiency on the offensive line. Before the season, I had not heard of their starting right tackle. I had not heard of their starting center. And I feel like I've got a pretty decent handle on the league. That’s a tough spot to be in.  

It's not the way they drew it up, but they also struck out on a lot of their acquisitions. They can't operate right now. And it's impossible to do a lot of things schematically that people have talked about them doing when you are that bad on the offensive side of the ball. 

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