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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Can Mac Jones flip his late-season script? Don't bet on it

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran, Phil Perry and Matt Cassel break down Mac Jones' recent struggles and how it will impact his confidence heading into the playoffs. Also, they preview the Patriots-Bills matchup and give their predictions.  1:00-Does Matt Cassel agree with Kurt Warner’s assessment of Mac Jones “making decisions too quickly?” 7:00-Does Josh McDaniels scheme up plays to give Mac confidence early vs. Bills? 9:00-Is there concern Mac might not be “the guy” for the Patriots? 11:30-Patriots-Bills preview 13:00-Will the weather benefit the Patriots? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rF4SWEi4tH0 Watch the full Next Pats interview with Kurt Warner here: https://youtu.be/n0ldHKbgp8s

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up in a bit of telling, there's your castle,

0:11.0

and there ain't nothing you can do about it.

0:27.4

What's up everybody? There's your castle. There's your Perry. Phil had a great get this week. Second time around with Kurt Warner from the NFL Network, Hall of Fame quarterback.

0:32.0

There's a lot of analysis and has watched a lot of Mack Jones this year.

0:36.1

Phil circled back to see what his appraisal of Mac was.

0:38.5

Here's what Kurt Warner had to say about what he thinks might be plaguing the young quarterback.

0:43.9

You know, I'm not sure I would say regression. I just think there's times that he plays too fast.

0:50.1

And, you know, it's to my point that sometimes he gets to the checkdown too quickly.

0:54.2

Instead of letting a play play out, seeing what the defense is going to do and get to his checkdown when he should get to his checkdown.

1:00.7

He's making some of those decisions kind of real quickly.

1:03.6

But most of the time when you get into the playoffs, your quarterback has to be willing to take chances and attack down the field.

1:10.4

And I don't think Matt does that enough.

1:12.6

I think he's too quick to get it to his checkdown.

1:15.3

And he gets positive plays.

1:17.1

But it doesn't matter how good you are in this league.

1:19.7

It is tough to make 10 and 12 play drives consistently.

1:23.6

Matt, what do you think about Kurt's appraisal?

1:26.8

Is that something that can plague a younger quarterback?

1:28.8

Well, it is because, again, for a young quarterback in terms of getting into a rhythm and all that,

1:33.6

you have a pre-snap read. And that's the one thing that we always gave a lot of credit to

1:37.5

Mac Jones was for his processing ability, pre-snap understanding. But what happens is, you know,

1:43.4

you get into this routine of taking the

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