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 mentioned 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 recreation 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 mentioned. “What I mentioned was about throwing it deeper throughout the brief recreation. I acquired to execute that half higher. Nevertheless it’s the brief recreation that we saved 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 obsessed with this recreation.

“Clearly, you do not need to let your feelings get the perfect 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 mentioned he felt 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 photographs. Simply go down combating,'” Jones mentioned. “Matty P was on the identical web page. We type of did it there on the finish and moved it a little bit bit extra.”

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

There have been vital adjustments round Jones. Coordinator Josh McDaniels left to grow to be head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after the 2021 season and head coach Invoice Belichick tapped former NFL head coaches Patricia and Joe Choose as prime replacements regardless of their major 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 crimson zone (thirty first), third-down conversion (twenty fifth) and first downs gained per recreation (twenty seventh). These areas proved problematic once more Thursday night time in opposition to the Payments, who held a time-of-possession fringe of 38:08 to 21:52.

Jones pointed the finger at himself.

“Whenever you’re enjoying from behind in opposition to a reasonably good group and an excellent offense, you should go on the market and make higher performs,” he mentioned. “That begins with me. Undoubtedly wasn’t adequate by me. I did not do a adequate job of getting forward early, making it work. … It is powerful to observe the protection play an amazing recreation, not with the ability to give them something again.”