Curran: Pats made massive mistake letting Jakobi Meyers go originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
One day after the New England Patriots’ embarrassing loss to the New Orleans Saints came another bad look for Bill Belichick and Co.
Former Patriots wide receiver Jakobi Meyers, who the team opted not to re-sign last offseason, helped the Las Vegas Raiders to a win over the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football. He led Vegas with seven receptions, 75 yards, and a touchdown in the 17-13 victory.
Meyers now has 25 receptions for 274 yards and three TDs through four games played this season. The wideout who replaced him in New England, JuJu Smith-Schuster, has 14 receptions for 86 yards and no TDs through five games. New England’s offense has scored only three points over the last two weeks and 55 in total.
Our Tom E. Curran believes Meyers’ success exemplifies where Belichick and the lowly Patriots have gone wrong in recent years.
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“Jakobi Meyers stands apart as the perfect example of what’s gone wrong here in New England,” Curran said. “Maybe even more so than Tom Brady, which by 2020 was a pretty complicated situation. And maybe more so even than replacing (Josh) McDaniels with Joe Judge and Matt Patricia. The root problem there wasn’t just hiring Judge and Patricia, it was not bothering to have a plan in place so that when McDaniels left, you weren’t left grabbing the two nearest guys to do the job. And of course, thinking they could do it.
“But Meyers was a premeditated faceplant by the Patriots and Bill Belichick, in which the plan was to move on from a player that everyone but Bill Belichick could tell was one of their best and then replacing him with an injured player whose best days were behind him for God knows what reason.”
Re-signing Meyers wouldn’t have broken the bank. In fact, his contract in free agency (three…
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