Mac Jones can take the hits, make the plays, manage the game — and play in the coldOne game's an awfully small sample size, but we'll know more next week at Buffalo.
Mac Jones keeps checking the boxes, passing the tests.
Managing the game. Check. Completion percentage. Check. Pocket presence. Check. Taking the hits. Check. Inspiring teammates. Check. Winning close games. Check.
Now a new one. Mac Jones Sunday showed he can play in a cold weather game, too.
This wasn’t Patriots vs. Titans at Gillette in January of 2004 (windchill, minus 10 degrees) when Tom Brady and Co. beat the Titans, 17-14, in a playoff rock fight. It wasn’t the Snow Bowl Tuck Rule Game against the Raiders. It wasn’t Orchard Park, N.Y., in December (that’ll be next week).
But it was near freezing with snow showers in Foxborough and privileged folks in the red seats stayed inside by the big fireplaces while Jones completed 23 of 32 passes for 310 yards and two touchdowns in a 36-13 demolition of Mike Vrabel’s top-seeded Titans. Jones was sacked twice, but didn’t have to do much after a spectacular 41-yard touchdown pass play to Kendrick Bourne made it 26-13 with five minutes left in the third.
Monday, November 29, 2021
Not So Hot Takes, By Dan Shaughnessy
With the Patriots winning yesterday's game against the Titans, Shank focuses on Mac Jones and one key aspect of the current football season:
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It's no secret that next Monday's contest in Buffalo will be a litmus test as to whether the Patriots are contenders or pretenders. Right now, I'd give the Bills the edge since it's in Buffalo and you know that crowd will be amped.
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