‘I don’t see how’ Patriots can go back to Mac Jones

Jason McCourty: ‘I don’t see how’ Patriots can go back to Mac Jones originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The New England Patriots benched starting quarterback Mac Jones and gave his backup, Bailey Zappe, the opportunity to win Sunday’s Week 10 game against the Indianapolis Colts in the final two minutes.

Jones had just thrown an awful interception in the red zone that cost the Patriots a chance to take a late lead. It was one of several bad throws/decisions he made throughout the game, which New England ended up losing 10-6.

Jones has been benched several times this season. At some point, the team has to move on from the University of Alabama product and say enough is enough, right?

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Can the Patriots really go back to Jones as the starter when they play the New York Giants on the road in Week 12?

“I don’t see how you do,” former Patriots safety Jason McCourty told Tom E. Curran on the Patriots Talk Podcast. “I’m watching that game and we’re in the commercial break, I’m talking to our producer and I’m like, ‘Bailey Zappe is warming up. We gotta show that, he’s warming up!’ As bad as that interception was, when you bench a guy like that in a game that, for all intents and purposes — I was with (Robert) Kraft the day before and he really wanted to win that game in Germany.

“He said this has been a decade of trying to get a game in Germany for the New England Patriots. Sebastian Vollmer was in the house, a draft pick in the second round who has won Super Bowls, who was from Germany. And in the biggest moment, you take Mac Jones out and he’s just sitting there on the bench and he goes up to Bailey Zappe right before and says, ‘Go win this thing.’ I don’t see how you keep going back and forth after last year.”

Jones has thrown for 2,031 yards with 10 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 10 games this season. He has thrown at least one interception in…

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Publish date : 2023-11-14 22:53:20

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