It’s safe to say that Mac Jones’ career with the New England Patriots did not exactly go as planned as he struggled mightily the past two seasons and has subsequently been traded from the team as the Patriots look to move forward with new options at the quarterback position. However, one of Jones’ former teammates doesn’t think his struggles were his fault.
During a recent interview on The Athletic Football Show, former New England Patriots running back Damien Harris claimed that Mac Jones was not to blame for his struggles, saying the coaching staff was “a debacle.”
“What happened to Mac Jones in New England was not because of Mac Jones,” Harris said according to Boston.com. “What happened in New England to Mac Jones was because of the fact you took away an offensive coordinator who coached him to be a Pro Bowler and almost coached us to winning our division with a rookie quarterback in his first year.
“And then you take — whenever Josh McDaniels left — Matt Patricia, who has coached defenses his entire life, and Joe Judge, who has been a special teams coach, coached receivers at some point. And then you just throw them in there and be like, ‘Hey, coach this kid up. He’s a first-round pick, but as long as you teach him what I say, everything will be fine,’ and [stuff] wasn’t fine.”
Whatever the cause, things did not go well and both the Patriots and Jones are moving on from it.
