Mac Jones talks evolving Patriots offense, leadership role

New England quarterback Mac Jones finds himself on the heart of a new-look Patriots offense after the departure of longtime offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.

The 23-year-old Jones, who’s coming into his second 12 months within the NFL, mentioned how the Patriot offense — which is able to seemingly have assistants Joe Judge and Matt Patricia at the helm this season — has developed and altered this offseason by way of OTAs and minicamp.

“The concept for each offense is to have an id and to have the ability to play quick and play faster,” Jones said. “And to place stress on the protection is essential for any offense.

“We need to have the ability to try this constantly, and we would like to have the ability to do no matter we wish to do at any given time, whether or not that’s a run, play motion or go, quick, medium or lengthy. We’re making an attempt to have somewhat little bit of selection and simply develop collectively.”

Jones — who has shown big improvements in his deep passing sport throughout the Patriots’ offseason practices, pushing the ball downfield with confidence and exhibiting his potential for a more explosive play style — did not draw back when requested whether or not he felt like he had command over this new offense.

“Yeah, I believe that’s the entire level of the quarterback, proper? It’s to steer the fellows round you, [to] get them the ball.”

Jones, the fifth QB taken within the 2021 NFL Draft, flipped the script and outperformed the 4 signal-callers chosen earlier than him — Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Justin Fields and Trey Lance — final season.

He completed the 2021-22 marketing campaign having accomplished 67.6% of his passes for 3,801 passing yards — the Thirteenth-most within the league — for 22 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. What’s extra, he led the Patriots to their first postseason look within the post-Tom Brady period.

The Patriots completed second within the AFC East final season (10-7) behind a protection that allowed the fourth-fewest complete yards per sport (310.8) behind the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers.

On the opposite aspect, New England had the fifteenth most offensive yards per sport (353.4) en path to dropping within the wild-card spherical for the second time in three years.