Posted this elsewhere, but it should have been in this thread...
Why was he pulled?????? Not yet fully healed? Patricia was well over his head and making really dumb decisions as he did the entire season? Both? More?
No QB was gonna perform for long (a game or two) in that clusterfuck of an offense Patricia had last year. Not Tom Brady unless he just took over and ignored Patricia and I think he would have. Hell, Tom would never have allowed that decision to be made. He would have been camping on Krafts back veranda banging on his bedroom door.
No sane person can judge Mac or Zappe based on last year. You have to throw the entire year out.
EXCEPT! Except for one glaring thing that too many people missed last year. That is the FACT that somehow Mac Jones made that clusterfuck work a little as the season wore on. Not great, but DAMN! It was impressive to see him start to over come the awful Patricia experiment.
I am still judging Mac by his
2001 2021 performance as a ROOKIE that made the playoffs and grew as a QB until it was obvious Josh had checked out. So I read his potential as very high based on that. THEN....... then I add in what he was able to do towards the end of last year as I stated above.
We enter year 2.1 (not 3.0) of the Mac Jones era for all real intents and purposes. I don't have the exceptional football knowledge that many on here do (wanna talk hockey?) that we all benefit from. Not gonna try to name them because I will forget a couple and that isn't fair. You and I both know who they are (and who they aren't too, LOL). But what I do bring to the table is a keen eye for the obvious and a shit ton of hard earned common sense and I have been told I am not stupid as well. And that is all you need sometimes. WRT Mac this is one of those times.
Now don't make me type that much ever again. My pointer fingers are bruised.