Teacher vs student with a portion of Josh Gordon

Week 3 has already been boosted by the professional debut of Baker Mayfield, the first draft pick, who came off the bench and led the Browns to their victory against the Jets on Thursday night.

But wait, there is more. There have been significant clashes, highlighted by Bill Belichick's Patriots against his former defensive coordinator Matt Patricia and the Lions on Sunday night, Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Bucs testing they are real when they face the Steelers on Monday night and a battle for LA with the Rams and Chargers facing each other.

With that, here is a preview of the High Five for the third week of The Post:

Teacher vs Student watching

Bill Belichick is not new to this field, but Matt Patricia is.

When the Belichick Patriots play Patricia's Lions on Sunday night in Detroit, it will be the fifth chapter in the "Teach vs. V" series.

Patricia, who was Belichick's defensive coordinator in 2012-17, was hired as a Lions head coach during the off-season. Belichick is 11-4 against his former Patriots assistants and 13-8 overall.

He is 5-0 against Bill O. Brien and the Texans, 5-3 against Eric Mangini, who coached the Jets and Browns after leaving New England, 1-0 against Romeo Crennel and 0-1 against Josh McDaniels, who is back with New England as offensive coordinator after a short stint with the Broncos.

Belichick is also 2-2 against Nick Saban, who coached him in Cleveland, and 0-2 against Al Groh, also a Browns assistant.

McDaniels told reporters in New England that coaching against his mentor was "difficult, because you know you come from a place that really gave you your foundation."

"[Patricia] knows our system very well [but] you have to balance that, said McDaniels. "You can not try to get everyone in your building to know everything [the Patriots] do or could do, or you could possibly overwhelm them. There is a balance there.

"He knows us a lot here, we know him, he's a great friend and a good person and we've had a lot of good memories working together over the years. I am sure he will be looking forward to having the opportunity to compete with some of the guys he has worked with for a number of years, as we will do. That's all history. "

Patricia, speaking at a conference this week, said, "You're just trying to keep up the pace" instead of thinking about confronting her former boss.

To make the match even more intimidating for Patricia is the fact that her team is 0-2 after giving 39 points less to a league game and a Patriots team was mistreated by the Jaguars last Sunday.

Oh yes, and then there is Tom Brady.

"[I have a] There are a lot of good memories and great situations where, every day, it's about getting upset, "Patricia said. "I think he's just a phenomenal player and an even better person. So the practical part was always fun, for the sake of the game. So, it's a little different now.

Enigmatic WR to watch (Part I)

If Josh Gordon goes to work where he goes to work in New England. The risk is worth the potential reward.

Last week, the Patriots only granted a fifth-round pick to the Browns in 2019 in exchange for the troubled receiver. On the financial side, they can only get the remaining $ 697,058 from Gordon's 2018 contract.

We can guess if it was activated to play Sunday. The Patriotes, of course, are nothing but secret.

However, when Gordon plays, the main reason is that the Patriots, more than any other NFL team because of their success and the established structure within the organization, have more cache – both on coaches and in the lockers. room – that any team in the league.

A player like Gordon will be more likely to listen to Belichick and Brady than he possibly is to any other coach and quarterback in the league. The five rings of the Super Bowl have a lot of weight.
If Gordon, whose addiction and lack of accountability issues during his challenging career have been well documented, will adhere to the organizational structure and be accountable, he will have a better chance of doing so when he works with Belichick. and Brady. .

Some of these refurbishment projects have worked for New England and others not. If Gordon stays on track and trains for the Patriots, Gordon's combination of Brady could become one of the deadliest in the game.

Gordon captured 87 passes for a total of 1,646 yards and eight touchdowns in 2013, but in the last four years he has played in just 11 games since the 2013 season, having been suspended by the NFL for most of the four past seasons due to multiple drug violations.

Gordon, 27, missed three weeks of training camp this summer for counseling and treatment, but thought he was healthy and ready to play.

"Basically, we would not want to bring a player into our team that could not help our team," Belichick told WEEI radio early last week. "Obviously, they do not all work, but that's the intention."

Enigmatic WR to watch (part II)

What a strange week for Antonio Brown, whose struggling 0-1-1 Steelers play in Tampa Bay on Monday night.

It began with the receiver who did not show up for work on Monday and started a Twitter debate with a former Steelers employee who questioned his value without quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Brown tweeted, "Exchange me, let's find out."

Brown finally addressed his behavior later in the week during a session with reporters in Pittsburgh.

"Everyone in this locker room knows what I represent, knows what I'm talking about," he said. "I am involved in this program and in this organization. I am fully here. I go to work every day, about my business and I do not take it for granted. My company wins here. I come here to win. We did not win, you're right, I'm angry.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin met Brown on Tuesday and thought Browns was fined for his absence on Monday.

Brown said the words he received with offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner last week were a source of frustration in Sunday's 42-37 loss to the Chiefs.

"I'm not on the sidelines to beg the ball or make statements like you do," Brown said. "I am very energetic, we are losing, we are nil.

Brown, who has captured 18 targets out of 33 targets in two games, said his tweet was due to a former PR staff member criticizing him.

"As a competitor, man, I take that [stuff] seriously, "he said. "This [stuff] It's not a game for me. Check cashing does not even matter. I look at my missions and my performances, it means a lot to me. When I go home, I weigh. My family weighs. For me, guys who think they can just disrespect me are out of order.

Fitzmagic to watch

Detractors of Ryan Fitzpatrick are waiting for the fall of the other shoe. Many of them are fans of the Jets and Bills and Fitzpatrick, after a good start, was disappointing.

In two games in the place of suspended quarterback Jameis Winston, Fitzpatrick was one of the NFL's stories, which led the Buccaneers to a 2-0 record against the Steelers on Monday night. .

Fitzpatrick, who is in his seventh season in his 13th season in the NFL, made 27 of 33 attempts for 402 yards, four touchdowns and one INT last week against the Super Bowl champions. -for 43 for 251 yards, no TD and one INT. Fitzpatrick's performance followed a 400-yard game against the Saints in a win of Week 1.

On Sunday, Fitzpatrick joined Chief Chief quarterback Patrick Mahomes as two of three quarterbacks in NFL history with four or more passes in the first two games of a season.

Winston's three-game suspension ends after this week, but there are already offensive players from Bucs asking the team to stay with Fitz.

"It's a quarterback's dream to have to fight with these guys," Fitzpatrick told reporters last week. "I'm starting to do it with the guys up front. I have time to examine the field and choose. It was another day. We had our struggles. It was not perfect. There was a little more trouble than last week. We had our calm for a bit. But the guys stayed on and did games when they had to. "

Coach struggling to watch

Jon Gruden had a tough time after 10 years in television. The Gruden Raiders are 0-2 in Sunday's game against the Dolphins (2-0). At every moment, he seems even more mistreated by the behavior of Khalil Mack.

Gruden, who had no interest in giving Mack the contract he wanted, traded it to Chicago, where the rushed demon has already excelled with two sacks, two fumbles and a pick-six .
The Raiders produced just two sacks as a team and were beaten for 168 yards on the floor and two touchdowns by the Broncos last week.

"No, it does not make me regret the trade," Gruden said last week. "We did the trade. We did the trading, you know there will be a pullback, 50-50, all that, but we would have liked to have it here. I will not continue to repeat it.

Mack – for whom Chicago traded two picks in the first round, a third round pick and a sixth round – signed a $ 141 million six-year deal, which seems like a boon right now.

"I would have liked to train him, love having him here," Gruden said. "But he's not here, and you know, somebody has to intervene. We must continue to build our football team. We have to do something, we have to do something. We must arrive there. We have to win one-on-one, maybe call other blitzes. We must find something. We are going to. & # 39;

Raiders fans still seem to part with Mack waiting.