On Zolak & Bertrand, former NFL QB and ESPN analyst Matt Hasselbeck was clear that Mac Jones wasn’t put in a good situation last season.

• It was frustrating to watch

  Scott Zolak: Mac (Jones) had that first year with Josh (McDaniels) where it’s zero-out slot, you call the formation, 50 protection, tossers the route, tag back flat.

  Matt Hasselbeck: Easy for you to say.

  Scott Zolak: For me to say. That’s all I knew and all we ran.

  Matt Hasselbeck: When people talk about West Coast, like those are just words. Everyone’s running similar plays. It’s like what plays you call? What’s the emphasis? Are you getting people out? Like, let’s talk about like the Chiefs, for example, okay? Patrick Mahomes has somewhere to go with the football, sack beaters. When he gets to the top of his drop, they’re looking deep. There are people that have their head turned around that could catch the football. And like when you looked at the Patriots this past year, the backs in there like help and block nobody, the tight ends in their chip-in, like there’s nowhere to go with the football. Like I’m sitting there looking at them, like this poor dude, they’re on the road backed up trying to do things like silent count the quarterback staring at the football and like I don’t know if people understand, it’s not easy to do that. There’s easier ways to get ten yards. And so I don’t know. That was frustrating. I’m not trying to throw stones at anybody but they did not put the quarterback in a good situation this year.

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  FOXBOROUGH, MA – DECEMBER 01: Mac Jones #10 of the New England Patriots reacts during a game against the Buffalo Bills at Gillette Stadium on December 01, 2022 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Billie Weiss/Getty Images)

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  PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 18: Robert Kraft, CEO of the New England Patriots, talks to Mac Jones #10 before a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium on September 18, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)

• Mac Jones was clearly unhappy last season

  Mac Jones throws the ball away and then quickly throws up his arms at the sideline in frustration.
  
  Seems to be mounting animosity between him and the coaching staff tonight. pic.twitter.com/bUnDZ7TYzS

  — Henry McKenna (@McKennAnalysis) December 13, 2022

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