{"id":99479,"date":"2022-10-17T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/relationship-with-mac-jones-went-sideways\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:06:59","slug":"relationship-with-mac-jones-went-sideways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/relationship-with-mac-jones-went-sideways\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationship With Mac Jones Went &#8216;Sideways&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There might be real strain between Mac Jones and the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>Jones clearly was growing increasingly frustrated before suffering a high ankle sprain a few weeks ago.  The sophomore quarterback showed similar things as New England&#8217;s offense struggled during the summer, and his frustrations continued while the Patriots lumbered to a 1-2 start with him under center.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess how Jones feels watching rookie third-stringer Bailey Zappe winning consecutive games \u2014 and in doing so capturing the hearts of New Englanders.<\/p>\n<p>But is there more to Jones&#8217; discontent than simply the results on the field?  Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Albert Breer on Sunday reported that, dating back to the summer, Jones has been unhappy with the changes to the Patriots&#8217; offense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think things did get a little sideways, really over the last couple of months,\u201d Breer said during NBC Sports Boston&#8217;s pregame coverage of Sunday&#8217;s Patriots-Browns game.  \u201cAnd I think it&#8217;s going back from the change to Josh McDaniels.  &#8216;Why are we bringing in Joe Judge and Matt Patricia when Bill O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s sitting out there and potentially we could&#8217;ve made a run at him?  Why does it make sense to have a defensive guy and a special teams guy here?  Why are we changing the offense?  Why are we streaming after all the success I had?  \u2026 Why, why, why, why, why?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that bled over into the injury now.  And I think this has sort of given the coaches an opportunity to send a message to Mac.  I do n&#8217;t think Mac was ever in any jeopardy of losing his job, but I do n&#8217;t think that they told Mac that, either.  I don&#8217;t think they said to Mac, &#8216;Hey listen, you&#8217;re good \u2014 don&#8217;t worry about how Bailey Zappe plays.&#8217;  \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Breer added: \u201cI think part of the message here is, &#8216;Watch what Bailey Zappe&#8217;s doing;  he&#8217;s doing what we&#8217;re telling him to, and watch how the offense is working for him.&#8217;  \u201c<\/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=22.0.20221012182758\" id='facebook-sdk-js'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There might be real strain between Mac Jones and the Patriots. Jones clearly was growing increasingly frustrated before suffering a high ankle sprain a few weeks ago. The sophomore quarterback showed similar things as New England&#8217;s offense struggled during the summer, and his frustrations continued while the Patriots lumbered to a 1-2 start with him &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/relationship-with-mac-jones-went-sideways\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Relationship With Mac Jones Went &#8216;Sideways&#8217;<\/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":101092,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mac-jones-and-patriots-disagreed-on-ankle-surgery-decision\/","url_meta":{"origin":99479,"position":0},"title":"Mac Jones and Patriots disagreed on ankle surgery decision","date":"October 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that Mac Jones and the New England Patriots have not been working in lockstep. 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