Tag: Jason McCourty

Ex-Patriot warns fans to ‘be careful what you wish for’ with Mac Jones

One former Patriots player thinks people should “slow down” on the Mac Jones trade rumors.

The grass isn’t always greener, especially when it comes to the quarterback position. That’s the message former New England Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty was pushing in regards to Mac Jones on “Good Morning Football” on Wednesday.

The Patriots quarterback has been the subject of trade talk, following a report that he had been shopped to at least four different teams. Make no mistake, there has been a groundswell of support from fans, but there are also fans pushing for the Patriots to hit the do-over button at the quarterback position, completely disregarding the promising season Jones had as a rookie.

“So I think these rumblings and everything we’re hearing, we need to slow down,” said McCourty. “Let’s see what Mac Jones does in Year 3 with a guy like [offensive coordinator] Bill O’Brien coming back, who has a ton of experience, a ton of success in the NFL, in the college ranks, and let’s see what Mac is able to do in his third year as quarterback for the New England Patriots. Let’s see how he overcomes all this adversity of all the conversations being had and all of these different things.

“But be careful what you wish for in hopes of there’s something better on the other side—that the grass is greener—because Mac was really good in his rookie year. Let’s see what he can become.”

It’s hard to find good quarterbacks in the NFL, much less great ones. Losing Jones could set the Patriots’ organization back for years.

They’ve already reformed the offensive coaching staff with O’Brien taking over the play-calling. The team has also made upgrades and additions at the skilled positions by bringing in wideout JuJu Smith-Schuster, tight end Mike Gesicki and running back James Robinson.

Unless there’s some grand plan on the other end, it would be a major mistake to move on from Jones at this point in time. The Patriots would be better off riding it out another year, and seeing if that same quarterback they saw in Year 1 reemerges with legitimate offensive coaching in place.

Why rush in stamping failure on a first-round draft pick that made the Pro Bowl in his rookie season?

Let’s pump the brakes.

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Jason McCourty breaks news of brother Devin’s retirement from NFL

Devin McCourty is calling it an NFL career

Sometimes it pays to have a source in the family in journalism.

Jason McCourty showed that on Friday when he was able to break the news of his brother, Devin’s, retirement from the New England Patriots and NFL.

“I’m officially retiring from the NFL. It has been a great ride,” McCourty said in a video posted to Instagram with his twin brother Jason. “I think it’s always tough to come to the end. This whole offseason has been so much back and forth for me mentally, but ultimately I think this is the best decision for me, for my family, and my career.”

McCourty said he spoke with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and head coach Bill Belichick about his decision.

“I got to say to Bill, ‘Now I get the chance to reminisce and look back and not have to focus on how can I be better.'”

 

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Devin McCourty, who turns 36 in August, was a first-round draft choice of the Patriots in 2010 out of Rutgers (No. 27 overall). He played in 205 regular-season games, starting all of them and totaling 982 tackles and 35 interceptions.

Jason McCourty on Jets: ‘Go all in and bring Lamar to the Big Apple’

Do you want Lamar Jackson as quarterback of the Jets?

With the Baltimore Ravens out of the playoffs, speculation is going to become immense in terms of the future of star quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Jackson is set to be a free agent after the two sides did not come to terms on a new contract and Jackson reportedly did not travel with the team to Cincinnati for their Wild Card Playoff against the Bengals. That only helped fuel the speculation about his future in Baltimore and whether he truly could be donning a new uniform in 2023.

And it just so happens that the New York Jets could be in the market for a veteran quarterback this offseason. Could the former unanimous MVP actually land in Florham Park? One analyst at NFL Network certainly thinks the Jets should at least make an attempt to lure him.

On Tuesday’s Good Morning Football on NFL Network, Jason McCourty is all for the Jets going after Jackson, saying they should “go all in and bring Lamar to the Big Apple.”

The Ravens can always place the franchise tag on Jackson but then there is also the possibility of a sign-and-trade. The tag for quarterbacks is projected to be about $32.5 million, per Over the Cap. The Jets can restructure contracts and save money to create cap space for Jackson or any other veteran quarterback they could end up pursuing. They have a huge amount of cap space at the moment in 2024 to help create space in 2023.

Jackson would be at the top of the list for the ideal Jets’ offseason as a team ready to win now and for an owner that has said he is open to spending on a veteran.

Jason McCourty reveals how Patriots feel internally about Mac Jones-Bailey Zappe situation

What’s life like behind the scenes with Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe? Former Patriot Jason McCourty revealed what he knows.

Former New England Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty got to spend a little time with Mac Jones, Bailey Zappe and the rest of the team at a charity event on Monday night.

Despite all of the outside noise screaming quarterback controversy, the internal dynamics behind the scenes are actually calmer than you’d expect. McCourty, who won Super Bowl LIII with the team in the 2018 season, had an interesting comparison to the quarterback situation right now in New England.

Instead of comparing it to the Tom Brady and Drew Bledsoe situation, he compared it to the Robert Griffin III and Kirk Cousins situation.

“I was with both of these guys Monday night at the charity event. The team loves both of them. They were in there hanging out, laughing and joking,” McCourty said on Good Morning Football. “So for me, I look at this situation, you had the Bledsoe, you had the Brady. But for me, it’s more RGIII and Kirk Cousins because of the fact that, yes, those two guys were drafted in the same draft, but very similar.

“Mac Jones was drafted with a first-round draft pick last year, and Zappe, I believe, was fourth-round this year. …So now you have Bailey Zappe and you have Mac Jones. You have two guys that solidify the quarterback room.”

McCourty did go on to say that he believes Jones will go back to being the starter when healthy, but he could come with a shorter leash, given the efficiency the team has shown with Zappe under center.

A little competition never hurt anyone. And who knows? It might actually light a fire under Jones and make him even better when he returns.

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Jason McCourty takes hilarious jab at Browns, following Patriots’ win

Jason McCourty might win best tweet of the day.

Former New England Patriots receiver Jason McCourty didn’t waste a chance to take a dig at his former team, the Cleveland Browns, after their 38-15 loss on Sunday.

In an ugly game filled with turnovers and the same backbreaking mistakes you’d expect from a Browns team, McCourty took to social media to pile on after the loss at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland.

“The type of brother I have… He FaceTimes me after his win in Cleveland from the locker room so I could see what it’s like to win a game in Cleveland One hell of a guy he is huh…,” McCourty posted.

McCourty played a year in Cleveland in 2017, before being traded to the Patriots and going on to help the team win Super Bowl LIII. It’s important to note the Browns didn’t win a single game the year McCourty was on the roster.

The team finished with an 0-16 record and became arguably the worst team in NFL history. It’s still astonishing that McCourty went from that situation to winning a Super Bowl and celebrating with his brother, Devin McCourty, in a year’s time.

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Watch: Jason McCourty says Seahawks rookie Tariq Woolen deserves more praise

The Tariq Woolen hype train is going full speed in Seattle.

The Tariq Woolen hype train is going full speed in Seattle. However, there don’t seem to be any stops outside of the Pacific Northwest as of yet.

One of Woolen’s early cheerleaders in the media is former Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty, who’s now working for NFL Network. He says Woolen is not getting the praise he deserves. Watch.

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Former DB Jason McCourty believes Patriots have plan, even without true offensive coordinator

McCourty has no issue with the Patriots not naming a true offensive coordinator before the start of the season

Much has been made this season about the fact that the New England Patriots don’t have a true offensive coordinator going into the 2022-2023 NFL season.

Between their training camp offensive struggles and the departure of former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels in the offseason, the lack of a staff member possessing full responsibility for New England’s offense has generated some controversy both among fans and media members.

In a segment on the FOX Sports TV show ‘The Herd with Colin Cowherd’, former Patriots defensive back Jason McCourty didn’t seem to think that the lack of a true offensive coordinator would be too much of an issue.

“For us, right now, [Josh] McDaniels is gone. So we’re all wondering from the outside looking in, well, what the hell is going on on the offense,” said McCourty. “But I think for those guys who will be there every day in training camp—was there all spring throughout the OTAs and the minicamp—got to have an idea right now of what’s going on on the offensive side of the ball.

“It’s been Bill’s thing the entire time he’s been in the league. There’s always a mystery outside of the building, Within it, they all know what’s going on.”

The NFL world will get a sneak peek behind the curtain when the Patriots open their preseason at home on Thursday with a matchup against the New York Giants.

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Ex Patriots, Dolphins DB Jason McCourty holds Bills’ Josh Allen in high regard (video)

Ex #Patriots, #Dolphins DB Jason McCourty holds #Bills’ Josh Allen in high regard (video):

It pained him, but Jason McCourty did it anyway.

McCourty, a 13-year veteran, retired from the NFL in July. He’s familiar to Bills fans having spent years playing for the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins in the AFC East.

Upon leaving the league as a player, McCourty has become an analyst for NFL Network, joining the “Good Morning Football” team. The panelist also hopped on the “Rich Eisen Show” in recent weeks and the topic of quarterbacks came up.

McCourty openly admitted that it was tough to do because of Allen playing on the Buffalo Bills, however, the now analyst said Allen is the QB he’d pick to win it if a game was on the line.

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Jason McCourty: ‘I don’t see the Titans as a contender’ in 2022

Jason McCourty doesn’t see the Titans as a contender in 2022.

Former Tennessee Titans cornerback Jason McCourty’s career on “Good Morning Football” is off and running, and he was already tasked with evaluating his old team.

The panel recently discussed teams in the National Football League they view as legitimate Super Bowl contenders. McCourty noted that the Titans were getting superstar running back Derrick Henry back this year but kept Tennessee out of his list of contenders because of the A.J. Brown trade.

“I don’t see the Titans as a contender,” McCourty proclaimed. “You’re getting Derrick Henry back and your thought process is, ‘Alright, here we go. We’re going to win this thing.’ And then you trade away A.J. Brown. For me, for a younger team where you’re still building, you can get the young guy in, bring him along, and he’ll grow with the team.

“But for a team, when you’re ready to win right now, your team is built for that — the No. 1 seed last year — and we get rid of our most productive offensive player… that makes it tough for me to really believe they’re going to be the team that takes it over the top.”

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While McCourty’s points have merit, the Titans secured the No. 1 seed in the AFC despite having to field a record number of players due to injury all over the roster, including at the wide receiver position with Brown.

Despite going half a season without Henry, and with Julio Jones and Brown in and out of the lineup all year long, Tennessee went 12-5 on the season.

Having said that, the Titans go into the 2022 campaign with several question marks on the roster. Wide receiver is atop the list and is largely dependent on the health of Robert Woods and the conditioning of Treylon Burks.

If both have productive seasons, and Henry picks up where he left off before the injury, the Titans should be in a favorable spot at the end of the year. The defense figures to once again be their bread and butter, but quarterback Ryan Tannehill needs to be more consistent this year after a lackluster 2021.

Of course, anything can happen in the postseason (see: 2019), but should the Titans make the playoffs again, they’ll need both sides of the ball to be firing on all cylinders if they want to make a deep postseason run.

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Retired DB Jason McCourty says Tennessee is home: ‘I’m a Titan’

Even though he won a Super Bowl in New England, Jason McCourty says Tennessee will always be home.

Despite playing for other teams during his 13-year career, retired former Tennessee Titans defensive back Jason McCourty says his true home is where it all started: in Tennessee.

McCourty was a sixth-round pick of the Titans back in 2009, and he spent eight seasons with the team before moving on to play for the Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins in the years that followed.

And, while McCourty suffered through a lot of losing in Nashville and won a Super Bowl in New England, he still considers the former his home, as he told MMQB’s Albert Breer.

“As any kid can imagine, you have a sibling that’s close in age, let alone an identical twin, and you got to play together and win the Super Bowl together like that. That’s a storybook ending,” he said. “So that was the most fun. But Tennessee is home. If somebody asked me, I’m a Titan. Tennessee was eight seasons, had to endure a lot of losing but felt like we were putting bricks in that building. I got married in Tennessee, had all three of my kids, so that’s home. But Tennessee and New England, those are the two places for me. One was home. One was the most fun I’ve had playing football.”

During his time in Nashville, McCourty, who was a class act the entire way even though he never made the playoffs, ascended from a late-round draft pick to a valuable starter who was as consistent as they come.

He credits two former Titans for helping him get to that point.

“Cortland Finnegan and Chris Hope were my two guys when I got there to Tennessee,” he said. “I probably wouldn’t have made it 13 years without those two guys. I remember having a conversation with Cortland Finnegan when he was done. He was a seventh-round draft pick out of Samford, and I remember him saying like, ‘I can never say anything bad about my career.’ He was just like, ‘I far exceeded any expectation I could have set forth for myself when I first was drafted.’ So for me, sixth round, I thought I’d be an O.K. gunner in the NFL for a season or two. And I far exceeded that.”

When he breaks it all down, it’s easy to see why McCourty has such an affinity for the Titans, and he’ll be remembered by fans as fondly as he remembers his time in Nashville.

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