Jets don’t see reason to stress Patriots’ Mac Jones uncertainty: ‘Same regardless’

The Jets have to plan an assault for Mac.

Mac Jones will begin at quarterback on Sunday for the Patriots, in line with a number of reviews. Patriots coach Invoice Belichick declined to disclose his starter at his information convention on Wednesday, however phrase leaked later within the day that Jones would get the beginning over rookie Bailey Zappe.

Jones began Monday night time’s loss to the Bears however was pulled after three sequence and changed with Zappe for the remainder of the sport. It was Jones’ first motion since Sept. 25 when he suffered a excessive left ankle sprain. Belichick mentioned the group meant to play each quarterbacks within the recreation in opposition to the Bears.

It's unclear if the Patriots can have the identical plan in opposition to the Jets. Jones was not listed on the damage report on Wednesday.

“We’ll see the way it goes immediately,” Belichick repeated a number of instances throughout his press convention.

Jets coach Robert Saleh mentioned the Patriots’ offense wouldn't look a lot completely different with both quarterback.

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Bailey Zappe (l.) and Mac Jones
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“Their offense goes to be the identical regardless, they’ve bought issues that they like,” Saleh mentioned. “The quarterbacks have completely different kinds to their cross video games, so we’ll be nicely conscious of each, however their system is their system and it’s an excellent system. Hats off to [Matt] Patricia and Joe Decide, they’re doing an amazing job with that group, so we’re anticipating, we all know the nuances, it’s simply making ready for his or her system.”

As for the Jets’ quarterback, Saleh threw his assist behind Zach Wilson once more on Wednesday. The Jets are 4-0 since Wilson returned from a knee damage however he has not been a significant factor within the final three video games. He has thrown for 221 yards mixed within the final two video games and has not thrown a landing cross in three weeks. Saleh credited the Packers and Broncos for limiting Wilson.

“You simply have a look at the final two defenses. They’ve made quite a lot of actually, actually good quarterbacks look actually, actually, actually unhealthy,” Saleh mentioned. “Zach isn't the primary or the final that it’s going to occur to. These are two actually good cross defenses that we’ve performed. We’ve nonetheless bought quite a lot of religion in Zach and he’s going to proceed to have enchancment. For certain, you wish to see dramatic enchancment each week however the different guys receives a commission, too. We’re not wavering on the place he's. We nonetheless assume he’s getting lots higher. With the division we’re in, each single week goes to be an amazing problem. On the finish of the day, he’s solely going to get higher for all of this.”


WR Corey Davis (knee) didn't observe and Saleh mentioned he's day-to-day. DE John Franklin-Myers (sickness) didn't observe. LT Duane Brown (shoulder), DE Jermaine Johnson (ankle), LB Quincy Williams (ankle) and security Ashtyn Davis (hamstring) had been all restricted in observe.

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