The Mac Jones experiment didn’t last long in New England.
He was with the Patriots for three seasons and didn’t pan out, so they traded him to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a 2024 draft pick.
Damien Harris was on the Patriots for two of Jones’s seasons with the Patriots and thinks former head coach Bill Belichick failed Jones.
“What happened in New England to Mac Jones was because of the fact you took away an offensive coordinator who coached him to be a Pro Bowler and almost coached us to winning our division with a rookie quarterback in his first year,” Harris said, (first transcribed by ProFootballTalk). “And then you take — whenever Josh McDaniels left — Matt Patricia, who has coached defenses his entire life, and Joe Judge, who has been a special teams coach, coached receivers at some point. And then you just throw them in there and be like, ‘Hey, coach this kid up.'”
Belichick took a big risk by having that setup after McDaniels left and it didn’t work out. He tried to bring in Bill O’Brien to get more out of Jones but that didn’t work either.
Jones will now have a fresh start with the Jaguars behind Trevor Lawrence.