Injury Creates Starting Opportunity For Former Patriots Quarterback (Mac Jones)

[Pape]

Right. And he's probably one of the better backups in the league today. Shame that the dog pile coaching he got from 2022 to the end of his Patriots run squashed any chance he had to be anything more even if that wasn't likely to happen.

wouldn't have mattered if Paul Brown himself was coaching the O... Mac, when pressed, folds. He is not an innovator... That's not to say he can't play QB, he can, but when he is pressured he falls apart... His game is based on accuracy... when he has the time he can sit behind the line and find his guys and do well... but he's not going to put a team on his back and drag them across the line...

In SF with Shanahan, he has a coach who will sit there and micromanage every play telling Mac exactly what he wants... and as long as he stays within those bounds a majority of the time he will do well... He's a lesser talented Jared Goff in a sense... Last year in Jax is a prime example of this - Even with a very QB friendly coach, he reverted back to what he was doing here... had a better completion percentage than Lawrence, but had a 1:1 TD/Int ratio... you can't consistently win under those circumstances...

He can carve out a very long NFL career for himself... can make millions of dollars doing so... as a Back-Up...

 

[sb1]

wouldn't have mattered if Paul Brown himself was coaching the O... Mac, when pressed, folds. He is not an innovator... That's not to say he can't play QB, he can, but when he is pressured he falls apart... His game is based on accuracy... when he has the time he can sit behind the line and find his guys and do well... but he's not going to put a team on his back and drag them across the line...

In SF with Shanahan, he has a coach who will sit there and micromanage every play telling Mac exactly what he wants... and as long as he stays within those bounds a majority of the time he will do well... He's a lesser talented Jared Goff in a sense... Last year in Jax is a prime example of this - Even with a very QB friendly coach, he reverted back to what he was doing here... had a better completion percentage than Lawrence, but had a 1:1 TD/Int ratio... you can't consistently win under those circumstances...

He can carve out a very long NFL career for himself... can make millions of dollars doing so... as a Back-Up...

Yeah I don’t feel bad for him at all. Backup is a great gig in the NFL.

Now he is a guy I think you can call a system QB. When the system breaks down he’s done. In the right system and I think it is with Shanahan there he will do well. To be honest maybe Purdy is one too.

 

[Pape]

Yeah I don’t feel bad for him at all. Backup is a great gig in the NFL.

Now he is a guy I think you can call a system QB. In the right system and I think it is with Shanahan there he will do well. To be honest maybe Purdy is one too.

I also think he'd do well in Chicago with Ben Johnson. Better than Caleb Williams has been doing thats for sure.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

If I'm Mac n Cheeze Jones, I'm buying a trolling billboard just for the week with my stats and "Miss Me Yet?" on it outside Gillette

Seriously, I wish only good things for him. Post-dynasty you can be less uptight about it. Mac gets a super bowl ring? Okay fine, they had Jimmy G for a few years too. Great bunch of lads in SF.

 

[Thelonious]

Good for him. I know he's sort of a twerp, but Belichick's mishandling of him and of his coaching was so flamboyantly egregious (and contrary to "what's best for the team") as to have constituted all by itself a reason to fire him. Mac's not a bad guy, he deserved a second chance, and I hope he does well with it. It's only fair and he is, after all, chasing a lifelong dream.

 

[TommyD4207]

The memory-holing of 'Back Stairs Mac' along with the revisionist history is hysterical.

 

[Triumph]

The memory-holing of 'Back Stairs Mac' along with the revisionist history is hysterical.

He beat up a bad football team in the Saints with a rookie HC just like he did in NE.

 

[sb1]

https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/media-obsesses-over-49ers-mac-jones-one-good-half-21049297.php

‘Mac got that swag’: How the 49ers’ backup QB came full circle in a win over the Saints

Kendrick Bourne and Trent Williams encouraged Brock Purdy’s replacement to take control before a three-touchdown performance.

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Comparing Montana/Young to Purdy/Jones…oh dear.

 

[Thelonious]

https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/media-obsesses-over-49ers-mac-jones-one-good-half-21049297.php

‘Mac got that swag’: How the 49ers’ backup QB came full circle in a win over the Saints

Kendrick Bourne and Trent Williams encouraged Brock Purdy’s replacement to take control before a three-touchdown performance.

sfstandard.com

Comparing Montana/Young to Purdy/Jones…oh dear.

It's San Francisco. After a day of scraping homeless feces of your sidewalk, you're bound to be a little desperate for something to be happy about.

 

[signbabybrady]

Good for him. I know he's sort of a twerp, but Belichick's mishandling of him and of his coaching was so flamboyantly egregious (and contrary to "what's best for the team") as to have constituted a reason all by itself a reason to fire him. Mac's not a bad guy, he deserved a second chance, and I hope he does well with it. It's only fair and he is, after all, chasing a lifelong dream.

Got it you think Bill is a bad man

 

[Thelonious]

The memory-holing of 'Back Stairs Mac' along with the revisionist history is hysterical.

lol. I'm not exactly sure what this post means, but it sort of sounds like something I'd agree with.

 

[Thelonious]

Got it you think Bill is a bad man

I think he was a world class, possibly best-ever HC and an intermittently clever GM who became a sub-par HC and one of the worst GM's in the league and who polluted his thinking toward the end with irresponsibly petty and personal vindictiveness and narcissism and who insisted on surrounding himself with old pals without regard to their suitedness to their jobs. There is nothing in that very long sentence which is not essentially a matter of mere fact. He is a classically tragic figure whose flaws have brought him low. I am not at all happy about it. You may believe it or not, but I wish it all had ended otherwise, but it didn't, and that is his fault. Since his firing, his behavior has become even more outlandish. Who can argue otherwise? He is running his life into the ditch. I am frankly worried about him, and I hope somebody can take him in hand and help him out.

 

[stinkypete]

This argument over Mac is amusing.

He is a perfectly good backup, which makes him a terrible starter.

Both can be true at once.

 

[signbabybrady]

I think he was a world class, possibly best-ever HC and an intermittently clever GM who became a sub-par HC and one of the worst GM's in the league and who polluted his thinking toward the end with irresponsibly petty and personal vindictiveness and narcissism and who insisted on surrounding himself with old pals without regard to their suitedness to their jobs. There is nothing in that very long sentence which is not essentially a matter of mere fact. He is a classically tragic figure whose flaws have brought him low. I am not at all happy about it. You may believe it or not, but I wish it all had ended otherwise, but it didn't, and that is his fault. Since his firing, his behavior has become even more outlandish. Who can argue otherwise? He is running his life into the ditch. I am frankly worried about him, and I hope somebody can take him in hand and help him out.

Now get your cronies to admit how much they hate him too. I'll give you some credit for owning it. None of its right but you at least you don't pretend like the other guys.

 

[NormZauchin]

Chad Pennington was a contemporary of Brady who carved out a decent career as an NFL starter - playing for the dysfunctional Jets - despite having one of the weakest arms I have ever seen in an NFL quarterback.

 

[brdmaverick]

I have nothing against Mac. Even if he becomes a great QB from this point forward (unlikely, but it COULD happen)...as a fan I can't stress it. If he becomes great...good for him. He was never going to be great in New England.

 

[Jim Beankie]

Mac never wanted to be coached like Tom

That was f*cking awesome. Thanks.

 

[Thelonious]

Now get your cronies to admit how much they hate him too. I'll give you some credit for owning it. None of its right but you at least you don't pretend like the other guys.

Okay, but, to be clear, I do not regard hatred as remotely the right term for my attitude. If I hated hem, I would want him to recover from his present sad tailspin, which I very much hope he will. He is a smart man. I am sure he knows how this all must look, and I am sure that must be quite painful.

 

[zydecochris]

Yeah I don’t feel bad for him at all. Backup is a great gig in the NFL.

Now he is a guy I think you can call a system QB. When the system breaks down he’s done. In the right system and I think it is with Shanahan there he will do well. To be honest maybe Purdy is one too.

Well said. Mac is the ultimate system QB, smart and studious, it is why I thought he was a good match for Josh (before he left and BB inexplicably put a DC in charge of the offense) and Shanahan probably handles QB’s better than anyone whose initials are not A.R. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does well as a backup in San Fran.

Despite his 40 yard dash scores and so forth (which are decent) he simply isn’t a phenomenal athlete with twitchy moves and is isn’t creative at all when the play breaks down. Plus, I think his confidence was shattered during that one year more than would be the case with most young men, he wasn’t an acclaimed athlete being hailed as “The Man” all his young life like is the case with so many young QBs, he was a late bloomer who showed little his first two years at Alabama (heck, he didn’t even look like a kicker, let alone a QB early on).

 

[jdlboot14]

Mac could be a winning QB in this league with the right system and talent around him. And, SF is about as good of program for his skill set - quick processing, not asking QB to be Superman, good OL, great OC/playcaller.
I could see him doing fairly well in this short stint as a starter. But I don't think he unseats Purdy.

And, I'd rather have Maye for the ceiling potential.