Pats shopping Mac Jones?

[cmh6476]

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/pat...vailable-trade

It's unclear which teams Belichick has contacted about trading Jones, but Florio listed the Las Vegas Raiders, Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Washington Commanders as "potential destinations," noting Josh McDaniels' Raiders as a team to "keep watching."

[RedinTexas]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Damn, I was hoping the donks would snag him!

Don't worry. Paton and the Donks have much bigger and grander plans for failure.

[Easy 6]

Pederson thinks he can polish that turd, lulz

[Chris Meck]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Pederson thinks he can polish that turd, lulz

I imagine he figures that a cheap decent backup is worth a 6th.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Chris Meck

I imagine he figures that a cheap decent backup is worth a 6th.

Yeah he got dude for a ham sammich, not much risk there if he can rehab Mac

[Chris Meck]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Yeah he got dude for a ham sammich, not much risk there if he can rehab Mac

He's a low end starter, for sure, but would be a pretty good backup.

[scho63]

I would rather have mac and cheese rhan Mac Jones

[DRM08]

Hilarious that Belichick used a first round draft pick on this guy.

[RealSNR]

[FloridaMan88]

Mac Jones is high profile enough of a back-up QB acquisition that if Trevor Lawrence struggles out of the gate… after a terrible finish for him last season… could be trouble.

[Mosbonian]

It's all about bringing him in to hold a clipboard for Lawrence and to be the "local" guy playing in his hometown.

This is all pretty much window dressing much like it would be if KC brought in Drew Lock to be Mahomes backup.

[stevegroganfan]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Serious question: how did Mac jones post the numbers he did in college, and then continue to post near-top-10 QBR/Passer Rating stats with no weapons in 2021? Did he just get lucky, or does he actually have some talent?

Besides their other receivers, Alabama had Devonte Smith having an incredible year and Alabama had a great offensive line.

In 2021 Mac Jones had much better pass catching weapons on offense than Cam Newton had in 2020 or Brady had in 2019 or even during his Patriots career before Moss/Welker. In 2020 offseason, Patriots spent a ton of money that year on FA receivers/TEs. They may have only gotten a C+ return for all of that spending and offensive line wasn't that consistent but the amount of spending on skill position players was so high that Mac Jones was throwing to above average talent that year. Patriots had a soft schedule that year from missing playoffs in 2020 and ran up the score in several games.

Mac Jones his rookie year was very good at throwing the ball to the middle of the field when given a reasonable amount of time. That is pretty much all of what he can do at an above average level for an NFL starter so defenses figured that out near the end of his rookie year and he wasn't nearly as effective. He clearly played favorites and a receiver like Nelson Agholor was open a lot more than Mac Jones accurately delivered him the ball.

I wish Jones luck in Jacksonville. With some genuine improvement, he can still be a good NFL starter but it was time for New England to move on.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by stevegroganfan

Besides their other receivers, Alabama had Devonte Smith having an incredible year and Alabama had a great offensive line.

In 2021 Mac Jones had much better pass catching weapons on offense than Cam Newton had in 2020 or Brady had in 2019 or even during his Patriots career before Moss/Welker. In 2020 offseason, Patriots spent a ton of money that year on FA receivers/TEs. They may have only gotten a C+ return for all of that spending and offensive line wasn't that consistent but the amount of spending on skill position players was so high that Mac Jones was throwing to above average talent that year. Patriots had a soft schedule that year from missing playoffs in 2020 and ran up the score in several games.

Mac Jones his rookie year was very good at throwing the ball to the middle of the field when given a reasonable amount of time. That is pretty much all of what he can do at an above average level for an NFL starter so defenses figured that out near the end of his rookie year and he wasn't nearly as effective. He clearly played favorites and a receiver like Nelson Agholor was open a lot more than Mac Jones accurately delivered him the ball.

I wish Jones luck in Jacksonville. With some genuine improvement, he can still be a good NFL starter but it was time for New England to move on.

Your bet on who they’re picking?

[carcosa]

Originally Posted by scho63

I would rather have mac and cheese rhan Mac Jones

YOOOOOOO

[Rainbarrel]

Throwback tarping of the seats. If the Prince goes down