Felger and Mazz: Was Mac Jones spoken to about his attitude?
To open up today’s Felger and Massarotti show, Mike and Tony wondered how hard the Patriots were trying to sell us and themselves, on how good Matt Patricia and the play calling is and was Mac Jones spoken to about his attitude?
Transcript:
Felger: It’s becoming apparent. It’s becoming a little embarrassing. It’s a little cringeworthy. I mean, I played you that sound off the top. I don’t know if you’re paying attention, but Jimmy, just again, rerack Mac Jones’s answer when he’s asked about that long played to Nelson Aguilar down the sidelines. This is what he said. Hey, Fay, suck enough. That’s it. That was a good play call. It was a good play call. I mean, it’s like. And then. And then I. We haven’t even gotten to the mat. Patricia’s the most brilliant football mind that I’ve ever worked with.
Mazz: Oh, yeah. No, no, I heard that one. And I went, You’ve got to be kidding me.
Felger: So now so now on top of it, it’s do you think they’re selling us or do you think they are shoving words down the kid’s mouth because he wasn’t bought in and they didn’t like the look that.
J Stew: He was spoken to
Felger: That sounds inform. Go ahead.
J Stew: Mac Jones was spoken to and told how to handle things going forward. That’s what I believe.
Mazz: I believe that. Yeah, I do, too. I mean, I we touched on this last week. I’d 100% believe that. I think there was a clear change in his sort of demeanor, his public demeanor, his public comments, all of it, and his body language, all of it. I think Bill pulled him aside and said, Cut the crap. We need you here. Cut the crap. Or Bill didn’t someone did on his behalf. It was Bill Miller, whether it was Bill Burgess, Gerry Bill’s assistant or Patricia or Judge or whoever. Somebody said, Cut the crap. That comment, one of the most brilliant football. I went, Holy smokes. Talk about putting a little too much sirup on the pancakes.
Felger: I mean, Jesus.
Mazz: Holy smokes. That one completely blew my mind when I saw that.
Felger: And even. Have you seen the video of it? No. I mean, I it really feels like if you if we have a certain camera angle of it, I think you can see Bill Belichick’s hand up his ass all the way up controlling his mouth.
Mazz: I thought you were going to say Jones’s nose.
Felger: Oh, no, but I mean, it is it literally looks like they are stuffing words down this kid’s throat.
Mazz: I mean, that’s what that’s what’s going on.
Felger: And he’s spitting them back out.
Mazz: Totally. Look, I get it from Bill’s standpoint, like you need the quarterbacks buy in. But I think that was the essence of the message from Bill to Jones. Do do you understand how important you are here? Do you understand? And I’m not. Tony Jones is wrong to doubt it from the beginning, by the way, because I think he was right. And in a lot of ways I give him credit, but I think they grabbed him by his hair and they pulled him into Bill’s office and said, Junior, you’re cleaning up your own mess, cut the crap. And so I think that that’s what the message was.
Felger: Do you think they need him to sell it to the team or to us? The public at large.
Mazz: For the team? Both.
Felger: Yeah. Go ahead, Jimmy.
J Stew: I think they need to sell to both. It’s clear. It’s obvious. The quarterback needed to be told to buy in, his teammates needed to be told to buy in. And now the public needs to be told, oh, this is going to work. Yeah, good luck.
Felger: You know.
Mazz: I think it’s more the team because the public takes care of itself if the team buys in and executes.
Felger: Yeah. Just just don’t leave the public out because Bill cares more about it than than I think people want to give him credit for. He’s sensitive to the questions and the perception and the narrative. He’s he’s sensitive to a small part.
Jim Murray: But the team I mean, you’re about to lose. I thought what I what I thought was their best wide receiver last year, because it feels like he’s off the reservation.
Felger: Again and so there’s that now to now he’s that it feels like Kendrick Bourne is off the reservation or he was last week and you know you talking to Bedard last night apparently or Phil Perry like this has been reported that kind of Bourne was a big Josh McDaniels guy. You know, McDaniels wanted McDaniels brought him in. McDaniels was his guy. He was attached at the hip to Josh McDaniels. And so Bedard on TV last night said they might just leave him in Vegas, meaning he might be a trade candidate. Maybe he can reunite with McDaniels in Vegas. And that but that that feels like that’s so now between Thornton who was look like you know had a chance to give you something there. Sure. And born now you got two of your top five receivers out clearly Mac Jones being clobbered into voicing public support for Matt Patricia. And it is a forced buy in situation. The offense is still not even close to being out of the woods.
Mazz: No, not even close is right. I thought, you know, again, there were a couple of plays, but the large majority of it was not pretty.
