Mac Jones addressed a viral video of him yelling on the sideline and appearing to use an expletive during Thursday’s loss to Buffalo.
The New England Patriots suffered a brutal defeat at the hands of the rival Buffalo Bills on Thursday night, but things got real intense the sidelines between Mac Jones and seemingly Matt Patricia. Patriots quarterback Mac Jones threw for a career-high 382 yards against the Minnesota Vikings last week, but completed just 22 of 36 passes for 195 yards and one touchdown on Thursday night.
During the game, Amazon cameras caught the second-year signal-caller screaming at someone, and using several expletives in the process.
Jones opened his postgame news conference by taking a question on what exactly happened during that moment.
“Obviously just kind of let my emotions get to me,” Jones said. “But, we’re kind of playing from behind. What I said was about throwing it deeper (instead of) the short game. I’ve gotta execute that part better, but it’s the short game that we kept going to — which was working. But I felt we needed chunk plays, and I shouted that out to kind of get everyone going. And that’s emotional, that’s football. I’m passionate about this game. Obviously, you don’t want to let your emotions get the best of you.
“Yeah, I think that’s pretty much it. It wasn’t directed at anybody, just emotion coming out. We kind of needed a spark. When you’re playing from behind against a really good team and offense, you need to go out there and make better plays. And that starts with me. Definitely wasn’t good enough by me tonight.”
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Jones was then asked whether he has the ability to switch to the plays he wants at the line of scrimmage. His next reply seemed to confirm that he indeed was yelling at Patricia.
“At that point in the game, it was just like, ‘All right, we’re playing catchup here, let’s just go for it, let’s be aggressive, let’s take those shots, let’s just go down fighting,’ ” Jones said. “And Matty P was on the same page, and we kind of did that at the end there and moved it a little bit more.
“At the end of the day, we’ve gotta execute the plays and do a better job. But sometimes you’re just so competitive, right? You wanna go out there and, ‘Hey, let’s get a 50-yard gain.’ And sometimes it doesn’t happen, but we might as well go down trying and try and make it work.”
With the loss, New England is 6-6 with five games remaining on its schedule. The Patriots will look to rebound when they visit the Arizona Cardinals for the Week 14 edition of “Monday Night Football.”
