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by DieHard batteries and Advanced. Autoparts Peter King
with NBC Sports here at Patriots,
training camp in Foxborough, Massachusetts
here with Mac Jones. So Mac,
the cliche question is
year two verses year One?
What is the big difference here in Camp for you?
Yeah, I think it's just continuing to grow continuing to
lead the team lead the offense and
you know, try and
Act days together. You know, when you're a rookie, it's
a little bit of just like, all right, what do I do on this
players? Trying to figure everything out and now it's
more, like,
what can I do to make everybody around me better? And
today, you know, obviously
the second day I know, I wish we did better already but we'll
watch the tape. And that's how it goes. You have good days and
then
days where you can watch the tape and learn. So regardless
of how old, how old you are every year, you're learning
from the film, you're learning out here during Camp practices
against, you know, our defense, which is one of the
great defenses. That's very multiple.
A lot of different, you know,
fronts and coverages.
Devin McCourty told me that he said, listen,
he said to you,
we want what you can bring? That is Mac Jones. Yeah. Like,
who were you in high school who were you in college? That's who
we want to be here? Yeah, don't try to be anybody else or
anything else? Yeah.
What was that conversation? Like, with him? And did you
take heed from that? Yeah, I think,
you know, Devin's definitely someone that's been
Around the league and been here forever, you know,
and he has great advice and I like to talk to the older guys
and see what they have to say
to offer me advice. Whether that was last year this year
and that is one of the things that just to be me and to go
out there and play the game that I know how to play.
And then obviously lead the guys around me but
can always do that better when you're a rookie,
no matter what you do, you're always technically a rookie so
you're trying to get comfortable, get comfortable.
And, you know, now it's like, how can I just continue to grow
that comfortable?
You know, that comfortable?
Chur where I'm kind of in there, talking in the meetings,
talking out here on the field and doing all that stuff, which
I did last year, but, you know, you're still a rookie so it's
just a little bit different, you know, going into your
second year,
you had an established offensive coordinator last
year, Josh, McDaniels Super Bowl veteran and now you come
into camp this year
and it's sort of offensive coordinator by committee.
Almost, I saw Bill, Belichick a lot with the quarterbacks here,
what's that? Like what's the difference like
it's been good? I think you can learn from
really good coaches. Regardless of
you know if they're defensive head coach or whatever it
doesn't really matter. Coach Belichick. Seen offensive
football, you know, from
way back in the day to all the way and how its evolved. So he
knows exactly the origins of it. And obviously the defensive
part 2 where he can analyze the defense and put us in a good
position with the right play call
because he knows what the defense is doing. So
I'm really comfortable with our offensive coaching staff. It's
just getting
Getting everything down. Getting the play calls down.
It's a little bit of a rhythm to it and that's what we're
going to work on
and it's a process. It's not going to happen overnight, but
we've made good strides and we just got to continue to do
that.
How much how long did it take you to? Get over
the playoff loss in Buffalo?
Yeah, I think, you know, you never want to lose the last
game of the year. Your goal is specially the way you lost it.
Exactly. And you have to think about, you know, you're only as
good or bad as your last game. So
that's all we have to base off of these
kind of that loss, but there's learning experiences there.
We know what it takes to
win, you know, ten games and stuff. But we also have to move
on to this next season and realize it's a long season. And
you want to kind of Towards the end and play our best football
at the end of the season, which we can do a lot better job of.
But right now it's just all about fundamentals and getting
better and focusing on what's important and that's
getting together in the meetings, the walkthroughs out
here and practice and then the season will take care of
itself.
One question about sort of your history,
everything I've always read about you. It's that you had
sort of I guess what young people now. Call the haters.
You know, the people who sort of
Didn't believe in you
and I wonder how much over the years. Has that driven you to
be who you are today,
I think I'll reference coach saving, but he said if I ever
listened to the internet, I would have stopped playing
a long time ago. And there's a lot of people that
that's the same thing.
I mean, you're always going to get
people who say that you're, you know, not good enough to do
something. And I still have so much to prove, I'm always
trying to be better than what I was yesterday and be better
than myself, really. I just try to compete against myself
and Know when it's a good day and I went to bad day, but it's
more about the routine.
All right, what did I do before? Practice to put myself
in position, can I keep it consistent? Can I do it every
day, so you're gonna have people say things but end of
the day
I mean they have their opinions and my job is to come out here
and work hard and do what I've always done and that's just
persevere
and work each day. That's all you can do
you once I read anyway. I think you were in high school. You
spent a lot of time like studying the mechanics,
the motion and everything of Tom Brady.
Hmm, and I wonder now it's been a couple of years, but do you
ever feel like,
man? I'm quarterback in Tom Brady's team.
Um, I think, you know, Tom is a great quarterback and he did so
much here and just to be able to watch him play, you know,
even now, just the way he plays the game is the right way, he's
very smart.
It does a great job there. But,
you know, I'm just, I'm just here to work and,
you know, as a rookie,
you know, you're coming in and competing with the other
quarterbacks, but also yourself, like I said, so
I always watch people that are good at what they do, whatever
it is. If you're
a really good, whatever pilot, let's find out what the really
good Pilots do, you know? So that's my thing, and he's
a really good quarterback and
there's lessons to learn from everybody
and just watching tape and all that you see
in a great quarterback, play around the league. So
I always try to be a sponge and learn from whoever I can
make Jones. Thanks for taking the time, have a great year and
no problem. Thanks.