It was only a month ago that the Patriots lost in overtime to the Cowboys to drop to 2-4. They sit in the AFC’s top wild-card spot, and are just percentage points behind the 6-3 Bills for first place in the AFC East. Their five straight wins have come by an average score of 35-10. And the Patriots certainly have done a lot of that recently. Of course, it’s a lot easier to love your teammates and buy into the program when you’re winning games. You need to back it up with some results that reinforce what you’re doing, what they’re feeling.” It’s not something you can talk about and it magically happens. I’m glad they feel that way, and I’m glad that’s developing. “I do think there’s a chemistry that goes with communication, anticipation, knowing what the other guy’s doing and him knowing what you’re doing and being able to play aggressively with all that. “It’s not something, as a coach, that you can orchestrate,” he said. You know his purpose, you know his ‘why,’ and it makes you give more.”īelichick credited the players for building the camaraderie. It’s actually building relationships, learning what each other does well, and ultimately it turns into playing for the guy next for you. “It’s not just the talent and playing better and X’s and O’s. You look at our receiver corps - it looks like they’ve played together for like the last four or five years, the way they’re hopping and jumping around. “It was a great job, obviously, bringing in talent, but also personality and character,” McCourty said. You don’t have to like your teammates to win in the NFL, but it sure doesn’t hurt. And another moment in the postgame news conference, with Kyle Van Noy and Matthew Judon cracking jokes at each other while trading spots on the podium. There was another moment in Thursday night’s 25-0 win over Atlanta, when offensive tackle Isaiah Wynn greeted all 11 Patriots defenders with a high-five when coming off the field following McCourty’s interception. “It just shows what type of team we are.”
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“That was a great example of, in that moment, everyone was just so excited,” Mac Jones said. There was the moment at the end of last Sunday’s 45-7 win over the Browns when the entire bench sprinted to the end zone to pile on top of Jakobi Meyers, who finally scored his first touchdown in three NFL seasons.
The camaraderie and buy-in from the players is obvious. The Patriots are 7-4 following Thursday’s dismantling of the Falcons, riding a five-game win streak. Eleven games into the season, the answer is clear: Pretty, pretty well.