Mac Jones

Patriots: In first bit of game action, Mac takes round one over Cam

August 13, 2021
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If this were a prize fight, Mac Jones would be up 1-0 through the first round. After some see-saw days throughout training camp, Jones and Cam Newton took their competition to the game field on Thursday night for the first football game at Gillette Stadium since Tom Brady’s final game as a Patriot. New England beat Washington 22-13, but the only thing that mattered to the majority of the people…

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Patriots: 12 players to watch tonight in tonight’s pre-season opener

August 12, 2021
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The Patriots kick off the pre-season tonight against the Washington Football Team. There will plenty of storylines heading into the game but the focus will be on the players. Here are twelve players to watch tonight as the Patriots kick off the 2021 season. 1. Mac Jones, QB: All eyes will be on the rookie first round pick. The big thing I will be watching for is how he handles…

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Patriots: Five things to watch in Preseason Game Number One

August 11, 2021
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After coming off their worst season in 20 years, the New England Patriots kickoff its preseason schedule with a date with the Washington Football Team on Thursday night at Gillette Stadium (7:30 p.m.). With players coming and going this past offseason, there will certainly be plenty of things to look for in all three phases of the game for the Pats. Washington will be looking to build off their surprising…

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Patriots: Stone’s sights & sounds from Patriots training camp – Day 12

August 10, 2021
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FOXBOROUGH – For the final time before their first preseason game, the Pats were back at practice on a muggy Tuesday afternoon. This one was a bit different as the team was inside Gillette Stadium for the second time in five days, this time for a public practice. Here’s what stood out as the team prepared for the Washington Football Team… -As fans entered the stadium the very first song…

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Patriots: Stone’s sights & sounds from Patriots training camp – Day 11

August 9, 2021
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FOXBOROUGH – For the first time this camp, the Pats had their second straight day of padded practice. With just one more practice on Tuesday (3:30 inside Gillette, open to the public), the focus is slowly shifting to the first preseason game on Thursday night. Let’s recap what went down on Monday… -For once it was Jalen Mills hitting the field first, it was receivers coach Troy Brown who sprinted…

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Patriots: Belichick may have secured the steal of the NFL Draft in Christian Barmore

August 9, 2021
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Photo by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Follow me on twitter @zcarey13 The New England Patriots had one of the most opportunistic sequences to start their 2021 NFL Draft that I have seen in a while. In the first round, sitting at pick 15, Mac Jones fell to New England who scooped him up quickly after staying put during Justin Fields‘ slide. Mac had one of the best college…

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Patriots Training Camp: Quarterbacks Preview

August 6, 2021
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After twenty years of elite quarterback play, Patriots fans finally experienced what the other 31 franchises have endured during that time period. Life is hard without a franchise quarterback. The Patriots had the epitome of a franchise quarterback in Tom Brady but as year one of the Post-Brady era reminded us, you cannot win championships without elite level quarterback play. No one envisioned Cam Newton of all people being Brady’s…

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Patriots: Big day for Jones, do we finally have a real competition?

August 5, 2021
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Thursday was the day Patriots fans who want to see a different quarterback this year had been waiting for. Throughout the first week of training camp, Cam Newton had done enough to look like he should remain the starter, but a lot to do with that was the fact that Mac Jones simply wasn’t doing anything to stand out. Both guys have had their ups and downs the first week,…

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Patriots: McDaniels talks offense, QB’s for first time in training camp

August 4, 2021
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There’s only one other guy on offense that everyone wants to hear from this training camp other than Mac Jones or Cam Newton and it’s not a player. Josh McDaniels is the guy closest to the “competition” and we finally heard from him on Wednesday afternoon following practice. McDaniels said right now is still just a learning phase, so there hasn’t been true evaluation yet. “Right now, everybody’s in a…

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Patriots: Stone’s sights & sounds from Patriots training camp – Day 6

August 3, 2021
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FOXBOROUGH – Tuesday was the first day in pads for the Pats, what did we learn? That and everything else I noticed from Day 6 of camp… -For the first time, it was not Adrian Colbert taking the field first on Tuesday but Jalen Mills alongside coaches Jerrod Mayo and Steve Belichick -Robert Kraft arrived via helicopter prior to the start of practice. -You knew it was “real” football today…

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