It’s all connected, so it’s impossible to pin it all on the receivers or on Brady. There’s no question both had bad plays yesterday, as did the offensive line which is a big part of it as well.
Personally I don’t really see Brady slowing down. Whenever he’s had the time and his receivers have caught the ball he’s been pretty much as lights out as he’s always been.
The process of breaking in these new receivers was never going to be a perfect progression where they just keep getting better every game until they’re as good as any Patriots offense by the middle of the season.
Yesterday was the perfect storm of nothing really clicking on any level of the offense, but to make snap judgements off of that would be as foolish as it would’ve been to do it after last year’s Week 2 loss to the Cardinals.
Let’s get Gronk back and see what kind of difference he can make before we get too worried. This will be a far-different offense a month from now.
