Two weeks before the Houston game, New England blew out the New York Jets on Thanksgiving night, a Thursday Night Football contest. That's a lot of Night Football's. (photo: Steve Glass, Flickr)
Coach Bill Belichick is pleased to finally return to a regular work-week, as the Patriots are slated for a normal, early-Sunday afternoon football game at the Jacksonville Jaguars.
"You play on Sunday and you have that routine and then you play again on Sunday so you kind of know where you’re at on Wednesday, where you should be in terms of your preparation, where you are on Thursday, whether you’re ahead or you’re behind in that preparation, where you are on Friday in terms of getting things done leading up to the game," Belichick told reporters earlier this week, via Patriots.com.
"When you change that game time or game date, whether it’s an eight-day week or a four-day week or a six-day week, whatever it is, you’re trying to find your equilibrium there of where you are. So like last week, on Wednesday, we weren’t the same point we usually would be on a Wednesday because having played Monday night, those type of things. I think it’s good to be in a routine and it’s good to be playing from Sunday to Sunday."
"I think just for today, on Tuesday, as a coaching staff we know where we normally are on Tuesday and I think that in terms of our preparation, our targets of where we need to be, what we have to have done, we can be there and then moving along to Wednesday, Thursday and if we have an opportunity to gain a little ground and get ahead, you can take advantage of that and really know what exactly it is you’re ahead on and how you can maybe better prepare for a situation for this particular game relative to some other game because of the problems that Jacksonville presents. It is good to be on that."
So, I think what Belichick is saying is that he likes the Sunday-to-Sunday schedule better. That might change when Saturday playoff games pop up in a few weeks.
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