The Patriots suffered an absolute beatdown in Bill Belichick's worst loss as a head coach, losing 38-3 in a blowout to the Dallas Cowboys. Mac Jones arguably couldn't have looked any worse, and was benched in favor of Bailey Zappe for the second half of the drubbing.
Mac's performance raises a lot of questions about the Patriots future, including whether or not Jones is a viable part of it. Is Mac Jones really the quarterback of the future for the Patriots? Should they pack it in and tank this year for a draft pick?
CLNS Patriots reporter Taylor Kyles and John Zannis discuss in this clip from Patriots Postgame show.
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Mac's performance raises a lot of questions about the Patriots future, including whether or not Jones is a viable part of it. Is Mac Jones really the quarterback of the future for the Patriots? Should they pack it in and tank this year for a draft pick?
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00:00 What happens next?
00:02 Uh...
00:04 What do you got?
00:08 Um...
00:10 In terms of what?
00:14 Where do we...
00:16 Yeah, that's a good question. Where do we start?
00:18 I would say...
00:20 I mean, your quarterback just can't do that again.
00:22 Like, coming into this game,
00:24 I don't think anybody was...
00:26 Right. Demario Douglas, right?
00:28 Like, he fumbles once
00:30 and he gets benched forever.
00:32 Mac Jones makes three of the most horrific turnovers
00:34 you can imagine that are entirely on him.
00:36 And yeah, eventually he got benched, but like,
00:38 there's gotta be consequences.
00:40 As you said, Taylor, like...
00:42 This, defensively,
00:44 they could've stayed in this game
00:46 if the offense just didn't puke all over itself.
00:48 They could've lost the game 20-3, you know?
00:50 But still had the ball
00:52 with a chance to get within a score or whatever
00:54 and make it competitive and like,
00:56 stay in the game. They weren't in it.
00:58 Real quick, while we discuss
01:00 what you do with Mac here.
01:02 And I am curious whether, you know,
01:04 all of the forgotten stuff from the offseason
01:06 about the rift between Mac and Bill.
01:08 And honestly, I still don't think Mac handled
01:10 that great in the preseason.
01:12 Every time he was asked about Bill's input on the offense,
01:14 he'd talk about Bill O'Brien and talk about
01:16 how good Bill Belichick is with defense.
01:18 I don't know how connected they are.
01:20 But Mac, I think you ride or die at this point
01:22 with him. But...
01:24 Hold on.
01:26 Oh, Dak Prescott on Zeke. They need to play him more.
01:28 But hey, who am I? Anyway, here's
01:30 Mac after the game, talking about his performance.
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02:04 Anyway, here's Mac
02:08 after the game, talking about his performance.
02:10 Mac, how do you sort of explain what unfolded
02:14 out there today?
02:16 Yeah, I think for me, just not good enough.
02:18 Wasn't my day. Can't turn the ball over
02:20 like that and try and be a good team.
02:22 Definitely a lot to learn from.
02:24 Definitely disappointed in myself.
02:26 I feel like I can play a lot better
02:28 and I have to to be good teams.
02:30 Do you know what your
02:32 starting status is going forward?
02:34 Are you concerned? What do you think this week will be like for you?
02:36 I think it'll be a good test
02:38 just for me, just trying to stay
02:40 focused on what I can control
02:42 and that's playing better. Just got to evaluate
02:44 everything. It wasn't my day
02:46 today. Hopefully there's better days ahead.
02:48 [Music]
02:50 That tells me
02:54 nothing. What are you laughing about?
02:56 [Laughter]
02:58 It's just a ridiculous
03:00 circumstance, man. Like, what's he supposed
03:02 to say? I'm not saying, I'm not
03:04 defending him. I'm just saying
03:06 you play terribly, man.
03:08 You just got to take it on the chin and move on.
03:10 That's all you can do. How much damage?
03:12 This is a good point that
03:14 this guy
03:16 with multiple first names
03:18 has, Mike Larry.
03:20 Mike Larry, David Bill.
03:22 Damage to Kidd in year two.
03:24 I don't know. I don't think it helped.
03:26 I definitely don't think it helped.
03:28 I don't think you need to be going
03:30 back because of how badly he played today.
03:32 Like, I don't see, like, no last year
03:34 did not help that had no
03:36 bearing on what happened tonight. That was just
03:38 really, really bad football from
03:40 Mac Jones. Doesn't matter what happened in the past.
03:42 That's objectively, full stop.
03:44 Can't do that again. Like you said,
03:46 I can't do that again. I have to be better.
03:48 I can't do this. I think if Bill did
03:50 something, it wasn't the coaches he gave him last year
03:52 and psychologically scarred him. I think it's everything
03:54 else that happened around it, which is, again,
03:56 the personnel issues. It's just
03:58 you talked about the last years of Brady.
04:00 You know, and we talked
04:02 about it a ton and how Brady
04:04 wasn't happy and Brady wanted more,
04:06 you know, to be taken care of
04:08 and more weapons and this and that. And even the final
04:10 Super Bowl, they won that more with
04:12 defense and Brady wasn't super
04:14 happy that year. And just the things that he
04:16 wanted were never fully addressed in the
04:18 later years and they took it for granted.
04:20 They took him, he felt he was taken for
04:22 granted and
04:24 they ignored, you know, whatever
04:26 you can do to make your quarterback
04:28 happy.
04:30 They haven't done a freaking thing
04:32 to help Mac Jones out, outside of
04:34 O'Brien this year. But yes,
04:36 I mean, absolutely nothing to make his
04:38 job any easier right now.
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04:56 nothing to make his job any easier right now.
04:58 - And I think there's gotta be a philosophical
05:00 change because the offensive
05:02 line has been an issue. I don't,
05:04 I think that not investing in
05:06 tackle sooner, more than
05:08 what he did this offseason, is the problem.
05:10 I think that you knew Isaiah Wynn
05:12 was on shaky ground, be it
05:14 performance, health, or even if he was gonna be
05:16 on the team. But you didn't invest
05:18 in a replacement plan for
05:20 him with an early enough pick or, you know,
05:22 free agency or whatever, where you could say,
05:24 "Okay, you know, the
05:26 season isn't gonna rely on him." 'Cause that
05:28 screwed them last year and I think it also screwed them this
05:30 year. I think they tried to address it this season
05:32 as well as they could without just completely
05:34 overspending on a tackle and
05:36 that blew up in their face. But in terms
05:38 of the philosophy of spending on a weapon,
05:40 like, this is the season where I'm like, "Yeah,
05:42 man, you gotta do something." Because if you
05:44 can't rely on the protection, then you
05:46 at least need to give him someone where when he's
05:48 in these bad situations, they can find
05:50 open spaces or they can at least
05:52 catch the ball even if they're not open and produce big
05:54 plays on their own. And that just hasn't been
05:56 happening. So, I think this has
05:58 to be the season where you concede to some
06:00 degree and be like, "Alright, we really do
06:02 need to help this guy out."
06:04 - On Mac Jones, Belichick
06:06 insists he did not bench him.
06:08 He said--
06:10 - Didn't he say that last year too? When he
06:12 benched him? - He--
06:14 he, like, put it this way. He is more
06:16 definitive today. He said Jones is starting
06:18 next week. He-- last year, he
06:20 let quarterback controversies fester.
06:22 Tonight,
06:24 he's not. Which is
06:26 better. Because ultimately, of course, you're starting
06:28 him. It's the only option that you have. And what's
06:30 the point of messing with the guy's head like you did last
06:32 year? Which was ridiculous, by the way.
06:34 Yeah, no, people in the chat
06:36 saying excuses for Mac. No one's making
06:38 excuses for Mac. All of it
06:40 is true. It's a little bit of everything.
06:42 They've got problems all up and down the board
06:44 and Mac played a horrible, horrible
06:46 game today. The point being is
06:48 he's the only guy you've got.
06:50 You can shuffle around the deck chairs
06:52 a little bit. And you can add
06:54 personnel and you could have added some more in the offseason
06:56 to do things. You couldn't
06:58 really get another quarterback. So, you
07:00 have to find a way to make what
07:02 Mac can do for you work.
07:04 And they don't have that right now.
07:06 What bugs me the most is if you're not going to spend
07:08 on that personnel, Taylor, and go
07:10 get the shiny, expensive receiver
07:12 or draft them or
07:14 do whatever,
07:16 then the people you do bring in at your
07:18 bargain basement values or the people that you
07:20 draft who might have been a little bit lower
07:22 on other people's draft boards have to be able
07:24 to play clean. They have to not make
07:26 mistakes. You can't be a penalized team. You can't
07:28 turn the ball over. They're not doing that
07:30 either. They really are. I always use the metaphor.
07:32 I always use the analogy.
07:34 They're like a pitcher who throws 87
07:36 miles an hour. They've got to be on the
07:38 black all the time with movement.
07:40 Perfect control. They leave
07:42 anything out over the plate, it's going to get freaking
07:44 smacked. So, the Patriots cannot
07:46 make mistakes. They cannot
07:48 do it because they just don't
07:50 have enough talent to be able to make up for it.
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