Since the Brady/Belichick divorce, the thought is that Kraft has been increasingly more “hands on” with team decisions. The speculation is that Mac is the guy the Krafts wanted to draft as the next face of their franchise. It’s also widely speculated that they stepped in after the Matt Patricia experiment last year which lead to BoB getting brought in and Jerod Mayo being retained. If they have been involved in some of these personnel decisions, how much blame do you place on the Krafts?

Maybe that’s why Bill has stuck with Mac this long. Bill has been standing on principle. Mac lost Bill’s confidence week 7 (I think?) last year when he got benched mid-game for Zappe. Ownership believed in Mac and encouraged Bill to see what Mac could do in a more familiar offensive system. Belichick straight up cut all of the other QBs on the roster to eliminate any potential QB controversy. He didn’t even bring a veteran in to push Jones. He brought in proven a commodity at WR in JuJu and another one at TE in Gesicki. Not saying those moves worked out, or any of his OL signings, but as we’ve seen this year with Jonnu and Agholor being competitive elsewhere it may not be as much of a talent evaluation issue is a scheme one…

I’m not a Zappe or Grier guy. I’m in the camp that there isn’t a good QB on this roster and that may not be Belichick’s fault. I think everyone in the organization is well aware of that point. Every other NFL team has had multiple opportunities to sign ANY of our backups and they passed. Who starts the rest of the season really doesn’t matter. The question is if Belichick was actually coaching for his job do you think he would have turned to Zappe (or even Grier) sooner?