Former NFL coach, player rip Patriots’ Mac Jones

Former NFL head coach and present ESPN persona Rex Ryan as soon as once more blasted New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, this time after Jones was benched for his staff’s remaining offensive drive of Sunday’s 10-6 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Germany that dropped New England to 2-8 on the season. 

“He lacks the arm expertise,” Ryan mentioned about Jones throughout Monday’s version of the ESPN “Get Up” program, per Lauren Campbell of MassLive. “Right here’s the opposite factor: Any time the man extends performs, which is what you need to do in at this time’s recreation, he’s terrible. He’s completely atrocious. The worst half about this recreation, to me, is 4 sacks on third down. What are you doing?”

Ryan beforehand referred to New England’s present QB1 as “Peashooter Jones” after head coach Invoice Belichick benched the 25-year-old the primary of thrice, to date, this season. Ryan later said that the Patriots “completely stink,” however he went all-in on Jones on Monday. 

“All you’re doing is hitting the check-downs as a result of that’s all he can throw,” Ryan continued about Jones. “Something the place he has to push the ball down the sphere, he struggles. It’s by no means private. The man can’t play. I mentioned it 4 years in the past and I nonetheless consider it.” 

Based on ESPN stats, Jones started Monday ranked twenty fifth within the league amongst certified gamers with a 39.1 adjusted QBR, twenty seventh with an 80.2 passer score and tied for twenty seventh with a mean of 6.3 yards per cross try. He is thrown a league-worst 10 interceptions (tied with Jordan Love of the Inexperienced Bay Packers) and tossed 10 landing passes over New England’s first 10 video games. 

It was suggested after Sunday’s motion that some Patriots gamers have misplaced religion in Jones. That was after sources near the staff seemingly threw Jones underneath a number of buses final week. 

“Whenever you miss on the quarterback and the quarterback is taking part in like (he) is, and the offense simply isn’t producing, it impacts all the staff,” former Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi added in the course of the ESPN section. “I had the luxurious of taking a look at quarterbacks in my profession, like a Drew Bledsoe, after which Tom Brady is available in. You simply get impressed by the quarterback place. That’s the form of intangible that it’s. To see Mac play this fashion, from the sideline as a defender, it’s like, ‘What are we doing? What extra do I’ve to do?'”

Belichick declined to say early into the bye week if Jones or backup Bailey Zappe will begin on the lowly New York Giants on Nov. 26 after Zappe changed Jones late within the Indianapolis recreation. It feels like Bruschi and Ryan would’ve introduced the QB swap as early as Monday morning.