Why has Mac Jones been staggering to the finish line?

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

4.5 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran and Phil Perry debate what factors have led to Mac Jones’ decline in production down the stretch. Are the lack of weapons holding him back, or is he hitting the rookie wall? Also, Kyle Van Noy discusses the Patriots' mindset heading into their matchup against the Bills. 1:00-What has happened to Mac Jones down the stretch? 6:30-How much does the lack of offensive weapons hold Mac back? 10:00-Is the "rookie wall" to blame? 19:00-Belichick’s confidence in his team fixing its mistakes 26:00-Is Brian Flores firing a cautionary tale for McDaniels and Mayo? 39:30-Kyle Van Noy 1-on-1 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_jstyMCc2gM

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0:00.0	Hey!
0:03.0	Had a bit of telling the game to 40 and this time, World Champion, and there ain't nothing you can do about it.
0:18.0	Hey!
0:23.0	Hey! Hey, what's up everybody?
0:25.6	Welcome into Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast.
0:27.3	Phil Perry will be in in just a second.
0:30.1	But first, let's do a little Mac Jones montage.
0:33.7	You got to go out there and do much better than we did today.
0:40.2	And it's super embarrassing, honestly, just from my point, just how I played wasn't good enough and I can be better and it starts with me I'm the quarterback and that's my job
0:44.3	we didn't execute I didn't execute and you know some of those plays shouldn't even have been
0:49.6	there we should have skipped some fourth downs and third downs and first and second down we could
0:54.0	have bigger
0:54.5	plays from me. So I think like you're talking about, I mean, those are the plays you want to make
1:00.1	and we did a good job, you know, making some of them, but we really don't even want to be in that
1:04.5	spot. And, you know, every time it puts Josh in a hard position, it puts a lot of the other
1:09.2	players in a hard position too.
1:12.9	All right, I want you guys to strap in for the Mac attack.
1:18.2	Statistically, 2021 has been a good year for a rookie quarterback.
1:28.6	3,800 yards, 22 touchdowns, 13 picks, 68% completions, 92.5 rating, 48 sacks.
1:30.5	He lost three fumbles, big deal.
1:33.9	Overall, he had a 79.3 grade.
1:35.0	That's pro football focus.
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