The New England Patriots are coming off yet another Super Bowl victory, but Bill Belichick wouldn't be the greatest coach of all time if he didn't still have plenty of issues with his championship squad. For one, Belichick isn't happy with how the team played on the road last year.
New England was its usual dominant self at home in 2018, but they went just 3-5 on the road. Belichick knows the team needs to improve on that, and he thinks he's found one way to help do so.
The Pats are holding joint training camp practices with the Lions in Detroit, and Belichick thinks that'll help prepare them for playing in hostile environments, per Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com.
“I think it’s a good opportunity,” Belichick told reporters on Monday. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to take advantage of it. It was an area we weren’t very good in last year. I think there’s a lot of components to that, but the bottom line was we weren’t a very good road team at all, and that’s important in this league. You’re not going to last very long when you can’t play .500 on the road or better. So, hopefully we can improve on that, and this is an opportunity for us, as I said, to take some steps, get some things ironed out, start to develop a routine, and hopefully build on it.”
While they might not have been great on the road during the regular season, they still came through when it mattered most.
In their biggest road game of the year, they went into Kansas City and beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead in the AFC Championship Game.
If they can win a road playoff game in January in one of the toughest stadiums to play in across the entire league, they should be just fine on the road in 2019.
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