McCorkle Goes To Jacksonville
Can’t say “Jaguars trade 6th round pick for Mac Jones” was anywhere near the list of things I expected to read on Sunday morning, groggy from losing an hour of sleep thanks to the bullshit of Daylight Savings Time. Well, if you had any doubts the Patriots are going to draft a QB at pick #3, put them into the dirt and cover them with a concrete foundation for some overpriced new condos.
A 6th rounder. Mac’s final season in New England was a disgrace but a 6th round pick is rough, buddy. The entire 2021 QB draft class has been a disappointment and by the start of the season, Trevor may be the only QB who remains on his original team. Trey Lance barely played a couple of quarters of football and was shipped into Dallas and vanished. Zach Wilson was so bad and yet still so badly mismanaged by the Jets at the same time that he was rumored to not even want the starting job back after being benched last year. The Jets would probably offload him for a snickers bar at this point, if anyone was even willing to send them that. Justin Fields is very likely about to be shipped out of Chicago as well, probably for a better haul than any of the other 3 but likely not much better. A 4th? Maybe a 3rd? A team would be stupid to send a 2nd. Trevor remains standing now and it’s not like he isn’t on shakey ground himself. Trevor’s first-year struggles can be written off as Urban blight and last year you can make the fair argument that he was injured and shouldn’t have played, but the collapse happened just the same and Trevor hasn’t shown the skills of a guy so highly touted coming out.
Mac is from Jacksonville so at least he gets to be close to home while he backs up Trevor. I assume Baalke won’t fix anything with the roster either so the chances we see Mac Jones go out there and sling it to the dirt near Evan Engram’s feet is pretty high. It’s hard not to wonder how much of Mac’s struggles in New England were him and how much was on Bill and the general tomfoolery of the Patriots offense. He wasn’t bad as a rookie. That was also the year he had his best supporting cast and Josh McDaniels running the offense. Laugh at McDaniels all we want (and we will!) he was still at least a competent coordinator in New England and significantly better than Matt Patricia. Jones could conceivably benefit from some time on the bench in a new system and rehab himself into a journeyman mercenary type. There is a non-zero chance he ends up on the Browns hydra within the next 4 years.
In retrospect it’s kind of amazing that the Niners taking Trey Lance kinda worked out compared to all the other non-Trevor QBs from 2021.
You underestimate the chances that Mac will end up on the Browns hydra. I recommend you go ahead and draw him just to save time.
I remember a period when Boston media was debating when, not if, Mac Jones was going to the hall of Fame.
I’m going to enjoy their fans misery for a while
Masshole here and I thought he was the real deal. I still wonder how much better he’d be without time spent with Matty Patty for an OC.
It’s been kind of funny watching this situation play out because the entire Mac vs Bill debate is basically the Brady vs Bill debate except everyone is arguing about who is more at fault for the team being garbage instead of who deserves more credit for the team’s success.
Just like that debate, the answer’s somewhere in the middle. It’s why they both got let go in the same offseason.
Is there going to be a Russel Wilson Steelers comic
Buddy you know it
Let’s weld
Wasn’t this QB class touted as “one of the deepest in recent memory?” Add that to the list of pre-draft narratives that really get on my nerves, especially with this class that only had two legitimate prospects to begin with (Fields and Lawrence).
When you add in the fact that those two legitimate prospects went to two of the worst possible situations, this class was DOA. However, I feel like both Fields and Lawrence could still be fixed and relatively effective if they end up in good situations….I just think the chances of that happening are dwindling every day.
To this day, I still think the only truly deep QB draft class was the 1983 one that gave us Jim Kelly, John Elway, and Dan Marino in the HoF. Even Ken O’Brien was good enough to go to a Pro Bowl and Tony Eason, for all the “Eason vs. Grogan” discussions in New England at the time, did play in a Super Bowl.
How do you know Mac Jones is like Usher?
They call him a Mac.
I look forward to the Macsonville Magyars
I love the grapes straight up dying at the sight of Mac Jones
Brock Purdy was drafted the same year as all the guys that got a lot of attention and were picked high.
So technically the entire draft class wasn’t a bust.
He was in the following draft (2022). Same draft class as Kenny Pickett, Desmond Ridder, Malik Willis, Sam Howell, Matt Corral, etc. Extremely, extremely weak QB draft.
congratulations Jacksonville, you’re getting some MACtion! …but not the good kind of MACtion
“Browns Hydra Mac Jones” please no… you already have to add Jameis now…