Bills Rival Trade: QB Mac Jones Dumped by Patriots for 'Almost Nothing'
Want a textbook example of "How to Lose a Trade''? The New England Patriots just unhappily obliged.
There are changes being made at the QB position in the AFC East. The Buffalo Bills, for example, just brought back Mitch Trubisky to serve as Josh Allen's backup. The New York Jets are trying to trade 2021 top draft pick Zach Wilson.
And now comes the breaking news on Mac Jones, whose three-year time in Boston went south quickly ... just as Jones now goes south literally.
The trade, which will become official upon Wednesday’s start of the new league year, ends a controversial three-year run for Jones as the Patriots starting quarterback.
After he was the No. 15 overall pick in the 2021 draft, he helped the Patriots to a playoff berth as a rookie and made the Pro Bowl.
But ... New England went 18-24 during his time, with 46 touchdowns and 36 touchdowns ... in the opinion of many being mismanaged by the now deposed czar Bill Belichick.
Jones was benched back and forth, multiple times, over the last two years in favor of Bailey Zappe. And now the new-look Patriots will be pursuing a new starting quarterback in free agency and/or the draft.
Baker Mayfield? Russell Wilson? Kirk Cousins? Or a drafting, using the No. 3 overall pick in the coming NFL Draft, of Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye or J.J. McCarthy.
Either way, the Patriots need the next big QB move to work out better than this one, as in the end they spend a first-round pick to net a sixth-round pick.
