What will the Patriots do with Mac Jones?

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Jones finished 12-of-21 for 150 yards and zero touchdowns before being replaced by backup Bailey Zappe late in the third quarter. Our Patriots insider Tom E. Curran didn't hold back in his evaluation of not only Jones' performance, but also his effort in the blowout loss.

"What I saw from Mac Jones, and part of the reason I think he ended up on the bench, is I saw a little quit in him. I saw a little give up," Curran said on Patriots Postgame Live. "Some of the throws he was making, especially the one that, air-mailed JuJu Smith-Schuster was, 'I just gotta get this ball out of here and get out of here before I get hit.' And that hasn't been him. He's been willing to take the hits and he's not in a position where he's been with this team long enough to allow your on-field leader to say, 'F it.' And I thought that that looked like an 'F it' throw and an 'F it' effort."

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Curran adds that while Belichick had every reason to bench Jones, the team simply needs to turn the page after the abysmal performance because the starting QB situation isn't changing.

"This was a benching by Bill Belichick out of disgust. You could see it on Bill Belichick's face on the sideline there and he had reason to be disgusted," he said. "The two picks, the strip sack, and then that lazy arse throw to JuJu Smith-Schuster. Actually, that sideline throw too where he was panicking. He looked like how I would have looked like in that instance, 'Ah! What am I gonna do?'

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