FOXBORO — Through higher or worse — and it’s been a variety of the latter to date this season — Patriots QB Mac Jones is sticking together with his course of.
Jones, who hasn’t thrown a landing go since Week 3 and has 5 interceptions in that span of time, was requested Wednesday whether or not he wants to vary his weekly routine.
It appeared like Jones had bottomed out as an NFL quarterback after a 2022 season that noticed him go 6-8 as a starter whereas rating thirtieth amongst 33 certified QBs within the QBR metric. He’s began the yr 1-5 and ranks thirtieth with a fair worse 36.8 QBR.
“That’s one of the tough things in sports and life, right? Am I doing something so wrong that we’re just missing it or whatever? A lot of the times you really do have to trust what you know, trust your routine,” Jones mentioned. “That’s what really good people do. They just stick with it and maybe adjust something here or there, but at the end of the day, they’re going to stick to their routine. And what we talked about, the results will come if you just focus on what you’re supposed to do like 99% of the time.”
So, has Jones stayed true to his routine via thick and skinny this season?
“Yeah. I have. I’ve stuck with it,” Jones mentioned. “I’ve taken advice from people. Maybe tweaked something here or there, but for the most part, that’s what I’ve done going back to when I was playing when I was little. Just sticking to my routine and adding things that I can add.”
Jones ranks thirty first in anticipated factors added (EPA) per play this season. He’s twenty fourth in success charge and twenty ninth in completion proportion over anticipated. He’s twenty ninth in general PFF grade, thirtieth in passing grade and twenty sixth in passing grade below stress. Maybe much more damning, Jones ranks thirty second in passing grade with a clear pocket.
It would have been practically not possible to foretell that Jones would play worse this season with Bill O’Brien as his offensive coordinator than he did with Matt Patricia and Joe Judge working the present in 2022, however that’s the truth of the state of affairs.
If Jones continues to wrestle, the Patriots will face extra stress to interchange Jones as their beginning quarterback with Malik Cunningham, Bailey Zappe or Will Grier.
Source: www.bostonherald.com