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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 5101081, member: 2839"] Maye played well, but the Patriots are down a lot of pieces and are relying on spot players to be meaningful contributors. According to Spotrac, the Patriots are paying their active players the least amount ($142.8M) in the NFL and have $34M (8th in NFL) on the various inactive lists. To say nothing about their dead cap space ($46.5M), while still having nearly $35M in cap room. Bottom line is that they did a poor job at acquiring talent with the most or second most (depending on source) 2024 cap room. Their coaching is lacking as well. Mayo might be over his head, which frankly is on Kraft. I don't know what kind of arrangement Mayo had prior to being hired, but Vrabel was there for the taking and Mayo could have gotten more seasoning as a D-coordinator who actually called the signals. Neither of his Coordinators had significant play calling responsibilities prior to this season. I think all of that played itself out yesterday. They came out of the gate well, but couldn't adjust to Jacksonville's adjustments. The effort was reminiscent of the Pasqualoni/Diaco Huskies and that is not a good thing. The Patriots are in Improvement mode, so they afford themselves some leeway, but there are only 38 players committed to the 2025 roster. So the Patriots need to use that cap space to add a lot of talent in the offseason in order to take a major step forward. [/QUOTE]