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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

Why are the Patriots giving so much work to Mac Jones?

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

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry break down the reps between Cam Newton and Mac Jones after 2 weeks of training camp. Are there signs that the Patriots plan to use Jones early in the season? 1:00-If Cam Newton is the starter, why the increase of reps for Mac Jones? 5:00-Which QB has improved more during training camp? 11:00-If they had to do it again, would the Patriots have waited until pick #15 to draft Jones? 19:30-Am I a loon if I suggest a platoon?! 23:00-Which players stock is up during training camp? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vW5nXZSig2Y

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Carver's Patriots Talk podcast. We are through two weeks

0:09.9

training camp practice. The headlines so far, the Patriots are riding Matt Jones like a mule.

0:16.4

And you know what? He is carrying that weight. We have a ton to get to today. We're going to talk about

0:21.4

that Jones heavy workload. Cam Newton's response to it and everything else as we go forward.

0:26.7

What a platoon system make any sense at all? Hold that thought. Hold that thought. All that

0:32.1

and more on Tom Caron's Patriots Talk podcast along with the Senator Phil Perry.

0:37.2

Had a bit of Terry. it's good to see you. I wanted to ask you about it. Hey, Mac, it's good to see you.

0:56.5

I wanted to ask you about the last two practices.

0:58.6

Your reps and team periods have gone up.

1:00.4

But I know a good day is always a good day regardless of circumstances.

1:03.2

But what does it mean to you in two days when you've seen a lot of opportunity that it seems,

1:07.9

at least from my perspective, you've been able to capitalize that and really stack days as we know Bill says all the time.

1:12.6

Yeah, I think that's important, you know, for the rookies especially just when we get in there and get a chance to play, whoever it is on offense, defense, just do we're supposed to do because, you know, especially for me, I have a job to do, and if I don't do it,

1:27.9

then the play is not successful. So I got to be more consistent, more vocal, and learn from the

1:34.1

older guys and kind of play to the standard is kind of the thing we've set playing to the standard

1:38.9

and doing that every day and not having good, bad days, just kind of playing each play and then

1:45.3

stack days together, like you said. The rep distribution. A lot of reps are going to Mac and you're

1:51.3

doing a lot of watching at different junctures, what your appraisal on that. Thanks, but.

1:58.4

I don't get involved in the reps.

2:02.9

I just do what I'm asked and I just go from there as far as trying to maximize as much as I possibly can when I'm in there.

2:13.2

That's the only thing that I control and that's what I will continue to do.

2:16.5

All right, so to lay it out, fill documents every day on NBCSportsBoston.com.

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