The New England Patriots did a number of issues nicely on offense Sunday towards the Indianapolis Colts.
Drake Maye made extra performs off-platform and continues to extremely impress as a rookie. Each Rhamondre Stevenson and Antonio Gibson discovered room to run. The Patriots additionally scored their second-highest level whole of the season with 24 factors towards the Colts because the third-lowest scoring offense within the sport.
That was not sufficient when the protection allowed a go-ahead drive as Indianapolis completed off the 25-24 win. Not that the offense will or ought to shoulder the blame for the misplaced, however the Patriots definitely left loads of factors on the board (once more).
New England entered the sport with the NFL’s fourth-worst red-zone effectivity at 46.9%, per TeamRankings.com. Sunday marked extra struggles because the Patriots went simply 2-for-6 on purple zone probabilities and simply 1-for-4 when contained in the 10-yard line. That can’t proceed if the Patriots wish to take the following step with their youthful offense.
“Our purple space offense I feel we have been 1-for-6,” Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo instructed reporters, per team-provided transcript. “Our purple space protection, we weren’t in a position to cease them there. That’s actually the sport.”
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“It was powerful down there,” Maye instructed reporters, per team-provided transcript. “It was tight. Tight home windows. Tight throws. I’ve to provide our guys some probabilities. I feel that’s most likely the largest factor. And penalties — I feel one in all them was penalties. We acquired again into, like, a primary and aim from the 20. Simply can’t accept 4 discipline objectives within the purple zone and anticipate to win ball video games.”
The Patriots get their subsequent shot to transform after the bye week in Arizona towards the Cardinals.