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Louis Riddick on Mac Jones: The Patriot Way Redux

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Patriots face the Falcons tonight, after their fourth consecutive win on Sunday, and Mac Jones is playing at a level that is making the rest of us look silly for doubting him. Bill Belichick’s team enters the second half of the season hot on the tails of a playoff spot, so Louis Riddick explains what we all missed with Jones at draft time, and how The Patriot Way is leading to success yet again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's an empty backfield for Jones.

0:05.0

Makes the snap, rookie of Alabama, surveys, fires over the middle.

0:09.0

It's caught. Hunter Henry's second touchdown of the game, and it's 37 unanswered for New England.

0:17.0

After the Patriots blew out the Browns to win their fourth game in a row Sunday, with Mac

0:23.6

Jones looking like the best of this year's rookie quarterbacks and Bill Belichick making

0:28.2

the rest of us look like idiots, there was one man I knew we needed to call.

0:35.8

So with the Pats playing the Falcons tonight, we give you Louis Riddick, a man who, like New

0:42.3

England, wound up giving us a whole lot more than we bargained for.

0:48.8

I'm Pablo Torre.

0:50.2

It's Thursday, November 18th.

0:52.9

This is ESPN Daily.

1:04.2

So, Louis Riddick, for people who are not familiar,

1:07.5

what is your relationship with Bill Belichick?

1:08.5

How would you describe that?

1:17.0

Well, let's just go back to the very beginning. I mean, obviously he's someone who,

1:23.8

when I played for him for the three years in Cleveland, that he was always very direct upfront with me as far as assessing my strengths and weaknesses as a player at that point

1:29.0

in time and what he valued in me and what he thought I needed to work on.

1:32.0

Lewis Riddick was an NFL scout and director of pro personnel after playing safety in the league.

1:37.6

He now does Monday Night Football for ESPN.

1:40.5

So it's always been a very respectful relationship.

1:45.1

And, you know, we did twice on Monday Night Football last year.

1:50.7

And twice he went out of his way to say how much he respected what I did as a player for him.

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