"We're going to play to the whistle. We're going to play to two feet in the white."
"It's not that we don't care about penalties. We want to make great decisions. I also understand that pre-snap penalties are lapses that do need to be corrected. We don't want to line up offsides, we don't want to extend drives. Competition fouls, and we ask them to play full tilt to the tackle, but then there's a line there. We have to play by two things: the whistle, I just don't understand how a professional athlete could assume that anybody in his league was down, and we're going to play to the whistle. We're going to play to two feet in the white."
The Patriots have shown improvement this season but remain hampered by penalties, ranking among the NFL leaders with 43 flags through five games. Coaching staff emphasize correcting pre-snap lapses such as offsides while encouraging physical, aggressive play in live action. Head coach insists on playing to the whistle and maintaining boundaries when tackling out of bounds. Specific recent infractions included a special-teams unnecessary-roughness penalty and a rookie mistake that affected a late-game drive versus Buffalo. The team aims to curb drive-extending penalties while preserving competitive intensity on the field.
Read at Boston.com
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