Mac Jones’ return was a large number and Zappe Hour was shut down after a few photographs.
The Patriots’ quarterback controversy took a flip for the more serious on Monday evening as New England was dominated 33-14 by the Bears.
Jones struggled in his return from a extreme excessive ankle sprain. The Patriots went three-and-out, three-and-out and interception in his three possessions earlier than the previous Alabama star was pulled for rookie Bailey Zappe.
“I undoubtedly wished to play higher and I’ve simply acquired to do higher at my job,” Jones stated. “That’s all it comes all the way down to and that’s all I can management and, actually, we’ve acquired an excellent likelihood right here to go in opposition to the Jets and that’s what I’m already centered on. I’m going to place my greatest foot ahead. I’ve been on this state of affairs earlier than and I’m simply going to attempt to assist the staff, and no matter my function is, I’ll be prepared and I’ll give it one hundred pc.”
Zappe — with the Foxborough crowd chanting his title — lit a fireplace below the Patriots, instantly main them on back-to-back landing drives to show a 10-0 deficit right into a four-point lead in opposition to a Bears staff that was in shambles heading into the sport.
Butt after opening 4-for-4 for 97 yards and a landing, the Patriots’ offense stalled the remainder of the evening. Zappe went 10-of-18 for 88 yards with two interceptions following that jumpstart.
“About the identical time as you all did,” Zappe stated, requested when he realized he was going into the sport. “I put together like I've each different week, like I used to be one play away. It’s the identical factor I’m going to do that week.”
At halftime, Patriots coach Invoice Belichick instructed ESPN that Jones would possible return to the sport, however he remained on the sidelines. That was both fruitless deception or an indication of simply how murky this case is for the Corridor of Fame coach. Belichick stated after the sport that Jones would have returned to the sport if the rating had been nearer.
Belichick, unsurprisingly, supplied little perception into what his plans might be at quarterback Sunday in opposition to the 5-2 Jets.
“We simply completed the sport,” Belichick stated when requested about who would begin.
New England will enter the Jets matchup at 3-4 and the one AFC East staff below .500.
Jones was the toast of Boston when he led the staff to the playoffs as a rookie final yr, the unquestioned starter after Cam Newton was surprisingly launched earlier than the season began. On Monday evening, the gang was delighted as he was benched.
“That’s the NFL for you. It’s a fast-changing enterprise,” receiver Jakobi Meyers instructed reporters. “It’s powerful, as a person, to see somebody who works so exhausting get that sort of therapy.”
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