You know the old saying, “If you have two quarterbacks, you really have no quarterbacks?”
That maxim has never been more true that it currently is for the New England Patriots. Bill Belichick’s team continued its horrific downward spiral on Sunday in a 10-7 loss to the Tommy DeVito-led New York Giants, and Belichick’s two quarterbacks — Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe — did something you don’t generally see.
They threw virtually the same type of interception.
As our friend Taylor Kyles points out, both Jones and Zappe threw cross-body intermediate passes into triple coverage, and in both cases, the result was what you’d expect.
Same concept, same inexplicable decision https://t.co/66QZxb30CW pic.twitter.com/pIMgX2K358
— Taylor Kyles (@tkyles39) November 26, 2023
I mean… that’s a carbon copy.
Belichick spent most of the week without telling anybody in the public sector who his starting quarterback would be for this game, and you can understand why.
For the game, Jones completed 12 of 21 passes for 89 yards and two interceptions before he was benched at the half, and Zappe completed nine of 14 passes for 54 yards and an interception in relief.
The 2-9 Patriots now have the second overall draft pick position behind the 1-9 Carolina Panthers, who traded their 2024 first-round pick to the Chicago Bears for the right to move up to No. 1 in the 2023 draft. They selected Alabama quarterback Bryce Young with that pick, of course.
We’re assuming that whoever’s in charge in Foxboro next year will be looking similarly at a college quarterback to reboot the franchise.