Bill Belichick Reveals The Plans How To Manage Patriots’ Rest With Late Bye Week

NFL experts are sort of right when they say that the New England Patriots are tired. You could see it in their last 34-10 loss to the Titans. New England played 10 games, and five of them were in the prime time, right before their late bye week.

Players were forced to play on short rest five times. Getting enough rest before their bye week is important, but they also have to work on fixing the damage they caused last Sunday. The Week 10 loss was terrible, and head coach Bill Belichick has a plan.

“Well, I think at this time of year rest is always a good thing. Also, practice timing and I’d say attention to fundamentals and details that sometimes get minimized a little bit when you’re doing heavy game planning and trying to handle weekly teams that have very challenging schemes and systems,” Belichick said.

“It’s a balance between rest and improved fundamentals, improved execution in the things that we need to do better. I don’t think that we’re going to get that by just sitting around and resting, but rest is important and the health and energy of the team is important, so we’ll try to balance those things and do the best we can with our opportunity to maximize our time efficiency and the way we use it.”

The team had a day off Monday, and scheduled meetings Tuesday. Wednesday is practice day, and we do not have any info about Thursday, Friday and the days of the weekend. If the head coach allows his players to get a four-day weekend, there is a huge chance that they come back on Monday.

The Patriots had their bye week two weeks earlier last year. The team practiced Wednesday and was off Thursday through Sunday. They had meetings Monday, followed by practice.