Tag: Pacman Jones

Bill Belichick hilariously recalls play against Titans from 2006

Bill Belichick recalling this play on the fly is pretty incredible

Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show,” and former NFL returner Adam “Pacman” Jones asked him about the new special teams rules.

To set the scene, the Patriots played the Tennessee Titans in Week 17 in 2006, and during that game, Jones returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown. New England got the last laugh in the game however, as they defeated Tennessee by a 40-23 margin.

However, Belichick, who is known for his strong recollection of NFL history, was able to recall the play specifically.

“First of all, Pacman, I want to tell you, that the punt you returned against us with the Titans was total BS,” said Belichick. “It was third down, and I was standing there on the sideline and I said, ‘Look, these guys can’t move the ball. The only way they can score is if we punt it to Pacman and he returns it. So we are going out of bounds with the ball right before the half.’

“There’s a minute to go in the half, and I said, ‘We are going out of bounds with this ball, and we’re going to make them drive it because they can’t score on our defense.’ And we punt it right down the middle, and you go 85 yards and I tell you, I can’t remember a situation I have been more upset about. …And you killed us on that just like I knew you were going to do.”

If anything, Belichick’s in-game preparation was spot-on in this instant, but the execution was lacking, to say the least.

There are some returners you just don’t kick the football to on the field, and Jones was obviously one of them.

Saints veterans Bradley Roby, Tyrann Mathieu respond to Adam Jones’ criticism

Saints defensive backs Bradley Roby and Tyrann Mathieu responded to Adam Jones’ criticism, pointing out their pass defense ranked second-best, not dead-last like he claimed:

It’s been a tough week for Adam “Pacman” Jones, who caught the ire of New Orleans Saints players when he mistakenly claimed they had the worst defense in the league last year during an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show. Among other things, he called out the Saints cornerbacks as some of the worst in the NFL.

And some of those players responded. Cornerback Bradley Roby acknowledged Jones as a friend on Twitter (laughing to their peer Casey Heyward that “Pac the homie he ain’t about to say anything,” after being corrected) but point out that the Saints pass defense ranked second-best in the league last year. Only the Philadelphia Eagles allowed fewer passing yards per game (171.6) than New Orleans (184.4).

Veteran safety Tyrann Mathieu chimed in, too, offering his own explanation for Jones’ bizarre misinformation. He suggested that Jones, like many outside observers, saw the Saints start out slow in 2022 and assumed that they “never really got the wins geauxing that we just threw in the towel.” That wasn’t the case, and they ended the year by winning three of their last four games.

For his part, Mathieu is expecting more wins to follow in 2023. We’ll see if Jones circles back to admit he got this wrong later or if he’ll just continue to ignore reality and substitute it with his own.

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Adam Jones doubles down, gets more facts wrong while ripping Saints

Former NFL cornerback Adam Jones doubled down on his Saints criticism, misreading multiple box scores to claim the Saints lost games that they actually won:

Adam Jones doesn’t know when to quit. The former NFL cornerback made a fool of himself on “The Pat McAfee Show” this week, accusing the New Orleans Saints of being, among other things, the worst pass defense in the NFL (they ranked second-best in yards per game, to be clear). And Saints fans have been letting him have it on social media.

And the noise is getting to him. Jones redoubled his efforts to ignore the facts and the stats from last season to rip on the Saints, sharing a video from his official Twitter account in which he failed to accurately read the final score and identify the winner from several games in 2022.

“Let’s just look at this, y’all allowed 27 points against the Falcons, who was a subpar team,” Jones began, misreading the score from the Saints’ season-opening 27-26 win in Atlanta. He continued down the list, continuing to get scores wrong: “The Seahawks, you allowed 39 points. The Bengals, you allowed 30 points. To Arizona, you allowed 42 points. Let’s keep going, since you want to talk (expletive) about what I’m talking about.”

The Saints were the team that scored 39 points in their 39-32 win over Seattle. 12 of the Cardinals’ points in that game were scored on defensive interception returns, not their offense. Cincinnati averaged 26 points per game and was a Super Bowl contender who made it to the AFC title game. What does he think that proves?

“Y’all beat the Raiders, good, the whole organization got (expletive) fired,” Jones scoffed, apparently confusing the organizational turnover in Las Vegas from 2022 as something that happened after that game.

Former players can offer insight that no one else is positioned to match when it comes to talking about the NFL. But that isn’t what Jones is doing here. He’s just wrong and loud and misinforming fans. It’s a shame because someone with his platform could do a lot better than this. Maybe he’ll get something right next time.

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Pacman Jones adopted Chris Henry’s sons and is now accompanying Chris Jr. on college visits

Chris Henry Jr. is starting to earn scholarship offers. Adoptive dad Pacman Jones is there to take him on college visits.

NFL wideout Chris Henry was taken too soon from this world when he passed away at age 26 back in 2009. He left behind two sons, but an old friend is making sure they still get the wisdom of a football veteran as they carve a hopeful path to the big leagues.

Adam “Pacman” Jones, a 12-year NFL veteran and Henry’s teammate with both the West Virginia Mountaineers, has been helping the Henry family since the untimely death of its patriarch. In 2021, he told Shannon Sharpe he’d legally adopted his best friend’s children. Now Chris Jr., a 6-foot-3 wide receiver prospect who looks almost identical to his father, isn’t just living with Jones. The two are hitting the road together:

Henry Jr. is only a high school freshman, but he already holds scholarship offers from seven different colleges, per 247Sports.com. That includes Power 5 programs like Miami, Ohio State, Penn State and West Virginia. Jones has been his wingman throughout a process that should only get busier and busier as the young teen grows into his playmaking genetics.

Throughout his career, Jones made headlines in the sporting world for his exploits off the field. Now he’s making waves for keeping his commitment to his dead friend’s children.

Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones now suspects former Steeler Joey Porter shipped the Joe Haden jerseys

Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Joey Porter has now been accused of being behind the shipment of autographed Joe Haden jerseys.

On Wednesday, former Bengal cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones received a box of autographed jerseys of Steelers cornerback Joe Haden.

“I’m gonna show you how gangsta I am,” Jones said, before pouring gas on the Haden jerseys. He used a lighter to set them ablaze while nearly burning himself. Jones proceeded to go on a profanity-laced tirade.

From the beginning, Haden has denied any involvement in sending Pacman the jerseys.

Since then, Jones and Haden have talked and cleared the air.

“Joe DMed me. Me and him cool,” said Jones in an interview with TMZ.

“I don’t think Joe sent them after I talked to Joe — so, I don’t have no problem with Joe,” Pacman says.

“But, I do think somebody over there in that ballpark or whatever they doing over there, Sh*ttsburgh, that somebody from over there sent them,” Jones speculated. “I wouldn’t even be surprised if Joey Porter sent them.”

Porter was fired by the Steelers in 2019. He had been coaching linebackers in Pittsburgh since 2015.

The hatred between the former rivals goes back years, but their most recent encounter resulted in the Bengals handing the Steelers a playoff win in 2016.

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