Jones & Keefe: Will Mac Jones ever be a starter again?

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00:00Do you think Mac Jones ever truly gets a second chance as a starting quarterback in the league?

00:04So you can't say never.

00:07My first instinct is never, but look at all these guys.

00:12There's never, even though every year five or six guys come into the league and you're

00:16like, oh, they might be starters.

00:17They might be good.

00:18And yet every year we're like, I think there's like 15 good ones.

00:21You're like, you know, good to great.

00:24There's never 32 really good ones ever.

00:27We just, we were just doing it.

00:28We crossed off like the whole NFC basically.

00:30Yeah.

00:31Yes.

00:32And so like if Drake may with a straight face is already better than more than half of the

00:36AFC, then maybe Mac Jones does.

00:39Cause if you had asked me five years ago, Hey, do you know Smith going to be a starter?

00:43I'd be like, no.

00:44Yeah.

00:45Right.

00:46Or Tannehill or we asked you like three years ago, Baker Mayfield, is he ever going to,

00:49we talked, I would have said, okay, last off season, my guy, we talked a ton about when,

00:54when Mac Jones is starting quarterback going into the Bill O'Brien year, we talked a ton

00:56that off season, whether or not the Patriots should bring in Baker Mayfield on like a flyer

01:00contract.

01:01So to compete with Mac Jones, like two years ago, if you asked Baker Mayfield, we would

01:04have said no.

01:05I would have said no.

01:06So my guess is Mac Jones will be a team's plan starter going into a season, but either

01:13the rookie that he's on the team with plays really poorly and he goes in or he's not ready,

01:18right?

01:19Like you're calling percent was the starter this year for five weeks.

01:21So Mac Jones will probably be a starter somewhere else.

01:24He just, he's not very good.

01:26He doesn't do anything at like an elite level, but he's probably competent enough to stay

01:31in the league.

01:32And if you stay in the league, opportunities pop up for you.

01:36Like the number of guys was last year, did they set a record?

01:39It was like 70 quarterback started the game, something, some crazy number like that.

01:44So my guess is next off season, especially if Bill goes to Jacksonville, Mac Jones gets

01:48blown out of there, but maybe he goes and he's on the same team as Carson Beck or Quinn

01:53yours and he starts over him until he does it.

01:56Or like, you know, Joe Flacco obviously had a much better career, but just look at the

02:00way he's kind of gotten into these games the last couple of seasons where you're like,

02:03that wasn't the plan, but here he is for five weeks.

02:06So I think he's probably just at that level where he stays in the league because even

02:10though almost everybody unanimously thinks he's a bad quarterback, look up the list of

02:15backup quarterbacks in the NFL.

02:17Like just the two deep, forget the three deep, just the backup quarterbacks in the NFL are

02:22almost all people you've never heard of or like, God, you'd never want that player playing.

02:27So I think he'll be in the league and so he'll probably get some starts.

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