Mac Jones Is Our QB1

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Darth Despot said:
I've said this before, but if Mac ends up being a healthy version of Chad Pennington this is one hell of a pick.

Let's not get spoiled.
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I always liked Pennington and he was so accurate. JOnes has a stronger arm than Pennington ever did. But I agree, if he can stay healthy, Jones will be a good pick.
 
Dak really liked what he saw from Mac anyway.

First, I want to pass along something we talked about after discussing this game. New England quarterback Mac Jones lost Sunday, and he threw what should have been a game-killing pick-six to Trevon Diggs (the ball just finds this guy) with 2:27 left in the fourth quarter. I said to Prescott how impressive it was that Jones, on the very next snap, threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to get New England back in it, and how impressive it was that Jones took three or four brutal shots on the day and just kept playing Rocky Balboa. He kept coming back for more.

Prescott didn’t wait for me to finish. “Those two things that you just said, honestly, are the two most important things to be really good at this position. You gotta be able to take a lick and not flinch and make the play when the hard hit’s coming. And when you have a bad play or an interception and the game changes right there, you gotta have the water-down-a-duck’s-back mentality. Let it go. It’s over. Mac’s got that. I really like what I see out of him. He’ll be a good quarterback for a long time.”
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SkiptoMyLou said:





For anyone keeping score.
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I certainly don't keep tabs on other teams' rookies across the league completely, but he'd have to be in the mix for it. I'd like to see him cut back on the INTs, and I think he will. He was close to having a clean sheet last night.
 
TyLawsPick6 said:
I certainly don't keep tabs on other teams' rookies across the league completely, but he'd have to be in the mix for it. I'd like to see him cut back on the INTs, and I think he will. He was close to having a clean sheet last night.
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Unfortunately I think of those ints maybe two have been directly his fault. The rest have come off bobbled passes or straight drops by his receivers. He seems to have a good idea of how to take care of the football, and seems to be improving each game.
 
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'He forgets really well': What Mac Jones, Kendrick Bourne said about wild sequence following pick-6 vs. Cowboys

Mac Jones threw a costly pick-six against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, only to bounce back with one of the biggest throws of his career.
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‘He forgets really well’: What Mac Jones, Kendrick Bourne said about wild sequence following pick-6 vs. Cowboys​

"That’s going to happen a lot more hopefully in my career."​

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New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones throws during the first half of an NFL football game. AP Photo/Steven Senne
By Tom Westerholm
October 17, 2021
Mac Jones followed one of the most costly mistakes of his young career with one of his more impressive moments against the Cowboys on Sunday.
With the clock ticking toward the two-minute warning and the Patriots nursing a one-point lead, Jones tried to fire a pass to Kendrick Bourne. The pass was a little ahead of the receiver, and Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs snared it. Diggs motored into the end zone, and the Patriots’ hard-won lead evaporated.
On the Patriots’ next play from scrimmage, however, Jones fired to Bourne again — this time a deep ball that snaked between two defenders and led Bourne on a run to the end zone. The Patriots converted two points and took a 29-26 lead.

Ultimately, the Cowboys evened the score just before the end of regulation and scored a touchdown in OT to claim a 35-29 victory. But Jones’s bounce-back moment left an impression.

“Mac, he forgets really well,” Bourne said after the game. “Like I said, even when the [interception] happened, in my mind, I didn’t point my finger straight at Mac. As it looked, it was a ball that was off my fingertips, but in my mind, I can make the play, I can do something better.
“I think we both felt like that, and that’s the result we got on the next series. That’s why, I think, the play played out like that: Because our mindsets were locked into, ‘Okay we have a chance.’ Rather than, ‘What just happened.'”
Jones followed his usual postgame routine, praising his teammates and deflecting any praise into platitudes about what he can improve.
“I wish I could have done things differently to where we weren’t even in that position,” he said. “I just have to watch the tape and learn from it. It’s not the first pick-six I’ll throw, and it’s not going to be the last. I just have to learn how to bounce back and play the next play.”
A reporter pressed Jones on whether he appreciated offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels calling a redemption play immediately after his mistake.

“Yeah, I mean, next play mentality,” Jones said. “Whatever they call, I execute it and give everybody a chance to execute the play. That’s going to happen a lot more hopefully in my career, where you have a bad play and you come back and make a good one. So it’s not always going to be perfect. You have to dodge the ebbs and flows and just play the next play.”
 
Watching it again, there were numerous laser-guided throws that he executed with serious precision. The fact he's able to do this as a rookie in this league where defenses are almost playing a different sport than those in college, you have to be excited.
 
Drew Brees on FNIA last night said he probably wouldn't have thrown that pass, but he was definitely admiring of it.
 
HSanders said:
Drew Brees on FNIA last night said he probably wouldn't have thrown that pass, but he was definitely admiring of it.
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I think it took Dallas by surprise, which is why it worked. Certainly took me by surprise and didn't see that kind of an attempt coming. Beautiful throw. He has a lot of em. That throw to Meyers on 3rd down was a great throw as much as it was a great catch by Meyers, too.
 
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Drew Brees on FNIA last night said he probably wouldn't have thrown that pass, but he was definitely admiring of it.
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To me it looked like the safety took a terrible angle and that threw Diggs off. It was a nice double move by Bourne.
 
PFF grades for the rookie quarterbacks through six weeks:
1. Mac Jones, 79.7
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2. Zach Wilson, 59.4
3. Trey Lance, 59.0
4. Trevor Lawrence, 56.8
5. Davis Mills, 56.3
6. Justin Fields, 56.0
 
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