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For the second time this season, Mac Jones took one of the NFL’s top teams to the wire and lost in heartbreaking fashion.
The first difficult loss was against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the rain at Gillette Stadium. Jones had an insane 19 consecutive completions and the Patriots lost because of a missed 56-yard field goal.
In a Week 6 thriller against the Dallas Cowboys, the New England Patriots lost 35-29 in overtime on a touchdown from CeeDee Lamb. Before the Patriots made it to overtime, Jones quickly shrugged off a pick-six to Trevon Diggs by throwing a 75-yard touchdown to Kendrick Bourne.
The Cowboys followed up with a field goal to bring it to overtime and the rest was history after that. There were some positive takeaways from the loss and NBC Sports’ Peter King discussed them in the King’s Football Morning In America column.
He specifically dove into Prescott’s opinion on Jones.
First, I want to pass along something we talked about after discussing this game. New England quarterback Mac Jones lost Sunday, and he threw what should have been a game-killing pick-six to Trevon Diggs (the ball just finds this guy) with 2:27 left in the fourth quarter. I said to Prescott how impressive it was that Jones, on the very next snap, threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to get New England back in it, and how impressive it was that Jones took three or four brutal shots on the day and just kept playing Rocky Balboa. He kept coming back for more.
Prescott didn’t wait for me to finish. “Those two things that you just said, honestly, are the two most important things to be really good at this position. You gotta be able to take a lick and not flinch and make the play when the hard hit’s coming. And when you have a bad play or an interception and the game changes right there, you gotta have the water-down-a-duck’s-back mentality. Let it go. It’s over. Mac’s got that. I really like what I see out of him. He’ll be a good quarterback for a long time.”
Jones has a lot to learn still, but his poise and ability to bounce back from mistakes will be instrumental in his growth.
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