{"id":104520,"date":"2022-10-22T07:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mac-jones-breaks-silence-talks-ankle-injury-and-bailey-zappe\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T07:16:58","slug":"mac-jones-breaks-silence-talks-ankle-injury-and-bailey-zappe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mac-jones-breaks-silence-talks-ankle-injury-and-bailey-zappe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Jones Breaks Silence, Talks Ankle Injury And Bailey Zappe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong> \u201cLike I said, just gonna try and do my best to put the hours in to get ready.  And definitely moving better, so feels pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> \u201cHow&#8217;s the injury been mentally?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong> \u201cYeah, it&#8217;s been good.  I think you get to watch and learn as much as you can and try and get healthy.  I&#8217;ve done a good job trying to help the team as best I can in film.  And during the game to watch, it was really good.  Obviously, I wanna be out there to help the team win and that&#8217;s what I wanna do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> \u201cBailey Zappe said that you&#8217;ve been really supporting him.  Why has that been important for you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong> \u201cYeah, I think I&#8217;ve been in these types of situations before \u2014 whether that&#8217;s in college or not.  If you&#8217;re in, you&#8217;re in, and you want to have everyone helping you.  He&#8217;s done a good job of stepping up, of being a young guy.  And I&#8217;ve always had really good mentors and things like that, so that&#8217;s my plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> \u201cPhysically, do you think the ankle&#8217;s ready to go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones:<\/strong> \u201cYeah, I think it feels pretty good.  Just trying to work through all the stuff being able to play an NFL football game.  \u2026 Watch I&#8217;m there, I&#8217;m there, and I&#8217;m definitely making a lot of progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still unclear whether Jones will play against Chicago.  He was a limited participant in Friday&#8217;s practice but reportedly expects to be available for the Week 7 matchup.  Bill Belichick offered no clarity during his Friday afternoon news conference.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\t\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\t\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '657944992269625');\n\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js?ver=22.0.20221019000220\" id='facebook-sdk-js'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones: \u201cLike I said, just gonna try and do my best to put the hours in to get ready. And definitely moving better, so feels pretty good.\u201d Question: \u201cHow&#8217;s the injury been mentally?\u201d Jones: \u201cYeah, it&#8217;s been good. I think you get to watch and learn as much as you can and try and get &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mac-jones-breaks-silence-talks-ankle-injury-and-bailey-zappe\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mac Jones Breaks Silence, Talks Ankle Injury And Bailey Zappe<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107133,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/patriots-fans-cheer-as-bailey-zappe-replaces-struggling-mac-jones-in-2nd-quarter\/","url_meta":{"origin":104520,"position":0},"title":"Patriots fans cheer as Bailey Zappe replaces struggling Mac Jones in 2nd quarter","date":"October 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Mac Jones' return to the New England Patriots didn't go smoothly.Jones threw a bad interception and early in the second quarter, he was replaced by rookie Bailey Zappe. 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