Rob Ninkovich Issues Challenge To The 2018 Patriots

Rob Ninkovich knows pretty much everything about the way Patriots work. He knows what happens inside the locker room as he played eight years with the team.

Ninkovich talked about the fact that the Patriots finished the road portion of the regular season 3-5 which is their worst mark since 2009.

The former linebacker went on NBC Sports Boston’s Ex-Pats Podcast, and gave his opinion on all the things that went wrong in Foxboro over the last month.

You can’t just get it in a week. It’s an attitude. It’s a demeanor. When you are kind of backed up into that corner, are you just going to kind of accept the fact that you’re there or are you going to jump out and try to claw someone’s face? Are you going to just sit there and let it happen to you or are you going to do something about it? I don’t know. There might need to be somebody in that locker room on that team that gets in people’s faces. I don’t know. Is there somebody in there that’s saying, like, ‘What are we doing?’” Ninkovich said.

Tom Brady and Julian Edelman are leading the offense. Devin McCourty and Don’t a Hightower are responsible for the defense.

“Talk is cheap. Prove it to me. Show me. Nothing got me more aggravated when I would tell somebody, ‘Hey, do this.’ Or, ‘Be here. Run this stunt. Run it this way.’and they didn’t do it … And then you’re just like, ‘Man, get the hell off the field. Don’t even be next to me if I can’t trust you, if I can’t rely on you to stay in your gap or to be there when we’re going to run a stunt, give me the next guy. Give me another guy that’s hungry and just does the right thing.”