Mac Jones is 5th in the league in INTs despite only playing 5 games and getting bailed out on a RTP penalty last week.
Also...3 TDs 7 Int 73.1 QBR
8 Offensive TD's in 5 games.
Not. Good.
It's not all Mac's fault as the coaching staff should be embarrassed. But he's not helping in any way. That's all I'm saying. Again, his rookie year, as I look at it. But I am concerned.
At a minimum 3 of those picks weren't on him. Receivers and referees own a few of those. As I said 2 weeks ago, a couple of the picks have been shockingly bad, though. Definitely not good, but fair is fair.
Presumably they get O'Brien next year and I'm quite curious to see how that works out. I suppose the return of JMD is a possibility, but I'm not betting on it.
Unless the players revolt, I can't see JMD being fired.
Is it possible to form an opinion?
I think we might be seeing the beginnings of the revolution. I'm not in the lockerroom so I obviously don't know, but once a team gives up on a coach it's all over. We saw that in Dallas, and that may be happening there. As he showed in Denver, JMD isn't the most inspiring guy in the world, so holding on to them might be difficult. The team's got some talent, they can't win, and he doesn't have any answers. "Them's the breaks" only takes you so far.
Do you think he's good enough to be the long term solution for the Patriots at QB?
If the answer is I don't know or we'll see, then I actually think that's telling.
If you think he's the guy, that's fine.
I don't though.
I don't know and we'll see, though I have no idea what that says. He is not Tom Brady, and if anybody thought that they were silly. The thing is, 49 teams have won superbowls without having Tom Brady playing QB. He doesn't need to be. In NE it's a very different metric. NE has always been about executing on all three phases of the game, which is something most teams can't/don't do. Mac just has to be the guy who has the offense playing well, not great, and he's likely to have a fair amount of help along the way. He might be that guy.