One other week, one other fumble from New England Patriots operating again Rhamondre Stevenson, who has now recorded 4 fumbles in as many video games to begin the season, carrying on the pattern throughout Sunday’s 30-13 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
New England caught by Stevenson getting into a difficult battle with the reigning NFC champion 49ers. The 26-year-old, nonetheless, continues to wrestle to carry onto the soccer, this time fumbling with 2:26 left within the first quarter, a turnover that allowed San Francisco to tally up three extra factors with a area aim. Stevenson’s newest fumble matched his whole logged throughout his first three seasons mixed.
“Properly to me, lots of these items goes again to physique language and exhibiting disappointment. I all the time discuss these sorts of issues,” Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo advised reporters after New England’s Week 4 defeat, per team-provided video. “There is no one on the market extra dissatisfied than Rhamondre so far as his ball safety points are involved. It’s what it’s, change the web page and let’s transfer ahead.”
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Stevenson’s ongoing struggles to stop opposing groups from ripping the ball out of his fingers, to this point, is not the one re-occurring miscue rapidly directing the Patriots towards yet one more bottom-of-the-barrel marketing campaign. New England’s offensive line stays a catastrophe, permitting quarterback Jacoby Brissett to get sacked six occasions by San Francisco’s protection — 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy was sacked as soon as by the Patriots — which now will increase Brissett’s endured sack whole to fifteen, tying the 31-year-old with Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis for the second-most this season.
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“The gamers know it is early within the season,” Mayo defined. “They perceive that. We have now veteran gamers in there. They perceive it is a lengthy season, and we have all the time talked about that North Star is to get higher each week. Now look, there have been some good issues that occurred at present. Possibly the rating does not mirror it, however we simply gotta repair all of the unhealthy soccer, and that is my job.”
Stevenson completed Week 4 speeding for 43 yards off 13 carries. The four-year veteran’s fumbling methods can solely be swept below the rug for therefore lengthy, particularly with the now-1-3 Patriots sitting dead-last within the AFC East the place New England remained staring up on the division’s true opponents all through all of final season.
