Patriots’ Mac Jones — ‘Let feelings get to me’ in loss to Payments

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones’ frustration boiled over on the sideline throughout Thursday night time’s 24-10 loss to the Buffalo Payments, however he stated it wasn’t directed at anybody particularly.

The Prime Video broadcast confirmed Jones at one level as he seemed to be saying, “Throw the f—ing ball! The short sport sucks!”

The Patriots performed from behind for the ultimate three quarters, and Jones detailed afterward that he was calling for deeper throws down the sphere.

“Clearly, I simply type of let my feelings get to me,” he stated. “What I stated was about throwing it deeper throughout the quick sport. I received to execute that half higher. However it’s the quick sport that we stored going to, which is working. However I felt like we wanted chunk performs. I shouted that out to type of get everybody going. That is emotional. That is soccer. I am keen about this sport.

“Clearly, you do not need to let your feelings get the most effective of you. I believe that is just about it. It wasn’t directed at anyone. Simply emotion popping out. We type of wanted a spark.”

Jones stated he believed he was on the identical web page because the teaching employees, particularly with Matt Patricia, who calls within the performs to him.

“It was simply [saying], ‘Let’s go for it, let’s be aggressive, let’s take these pictures. Simply go down preventing,'” Jones stated. “Matty P was on the identical web page. We type of did it there on the finish and moved it just a little bit extra.”

Jones completed 22-of-36 for 195 yards with one landing move and no interceptions. He hasn’t seemed like the identical quarterback for many of his second season after a rookie 12 months through which he was named to the Professional Bowl as an alternate.

There have been important adjustments round Jones. Coordinator Josh McDaniels left to turn into head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after the 2021 season, and head coach Invoice Belichick tapped former NFL head coaches Patricia and Joe Decide as prime replacements regardless of their main backgrounds within the NFL approaching protection and particular groups, respectively.

Belichick additionally oversaw a streamlining of the offense, with gamers saying a purpose was to simplify it and permit them to play sooner.

However the Patriots (6-6) have sunk to close the underside of the league rankings in a number of key areas, together with purple zone (thirty first), third-down conversion (twenty fifth) and first downs gained per sport (twenty seventh). These areas proved problematic once more Thursday night time towards the Payments, who held a time-of-possession fringe of 38:08 to 21:52.

Jones pointed the finger at himself.

“Whenever you’re taking part in from behind towards a reasonably good group and a very good offense, it’s essential go on the market and make higher performs,” he stated. “That begins with me. Undoubtedly wasn’t ok by me. I did not do a ok job of getting forward early, making it work. … It is powerful to look at the protection play an excellent sport, not with the ability to give them something again.”