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The Patriots had a pair of joint practices with the Raiders on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Friday, the Patriots performed the Raiders within the preseason finale for each groups.

For New England, the sport didn’t go effectively. Afterward, coach Invoice Belichick tried to be pragmatic.

“All proper, effectively we didn’t have a very good night time tonight in any part of the sport,” Belichick instructed reporters. “That’s apparent. Might need left it on the follow subject on Tuesday and Wednesday. Actually practiced lots higher than we performed on the market tonight.

“Clearly, I want to wash up quite a lot of issues right here. We simply didn’t play effectively in any part of the sport. We didn’t play with any form of consistency. A few touchdowns referred to as again, turned the ball over, didn’t play good protection, didn’t play effectively within the kicking sport. I’ve clearly acquired to do a greater job and so, it begins with me. We’ll get again to work this week and work on what sort of issues we have to work on. Like I mentioned, it’s disappointing as a result of we did issues lots higher in follow in opposition to the Raiders than we did tonight. Hopefully, we will regain that stage of execution and efficiency.”

Even when they do, will or not it’s ok? Belichick has a knack for getting probably the most out of what he has. What if he simply doesn’t have sufficient this 12 months?

It’s one of many main questions hovering over a franchise that has gone three full seasons with a postseason victory. Trying round the remainder of the AFC, it’s exhausting to not suppose the streak will run to 4.