Kendrick Bourne does not mince phrases about Patriots’ play-calling

Kendrick Bourne empathizes with the frustration New England Patriots followers really feel whereas watching the offense this season.

The Patriots vast receiver voiced his ideas on the offense’s struggles after Thursday evening’s 24-10 loss to the Buffalo Payments. He burdened the necessity for the offense to throw the ball downfield, which he acknowledges has been troublesome for quarterback Mac Jones to do behind a depleted offensive line.

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“We gotta get the ball downfield,” Bourne advised reporters within the locker room after the defeat. “I believe Mac wants extra time. He’s clearly operating round, so it’s laborious to get the ball downfield when you do not actually have time to throw. No knock to the road, it is simply what we have to work on. The receivers cannot do something if the ball cannot get downfield. If we will not throw it previous 5 yards, it is simply going to be an extended recreation.

“We have now performs however we will not get to them. We’re calling them, but it surely’s not working. … Hopefully we will get Mac extra time so he could make the performs.”

New England was simply 3-for-12 on third down in Thursday’s loss. Jones’ frustration with the play-calling was clear when he was seen on the sideline shouting “throw the f—ing ball.”

Bourne appears to facet along with his quarterback.

“Yeah, man, we have to scheme up higher. We have to know what they’re doing. We have to know what they wanna do on third down,” he stated. “They name this, and we name that, and it falls proper into what they need.”

Jones completed with 195 passing yards — 48 of which got here after Marcus Jones’ catch on a display that resulted within the Patriots’ only touchdown of the sport. That can by no means get the job accomplished towards Josh Allen and the high-powered Payments offense. Matt Patricia and Co. must discover a manner make the offense look the way in which it did final week in Minnesota on a extra constant foundation.

New England might want to bounce again subsequent week towards the Arizona Cardinals, in any other case a playoff spot will slip even additional away.