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Unique England Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick is reportedly invigorated by the belief to be working with a young quarterback after the Pats chosen Alabama’s Mac Jones with the No. 15 overall retract in the 2021 NFL draft on Thursday.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Friday that he gets the sense Belichick is “extremely excited” about attending to groom a rookie quarterback for a starting position for the first time since Tom Brady joined the personnel as a sixth-round retract in 2000:
Rapoport added that he believes the 69-one year-worn Belichick would perchance by no potential retire given how mighty making a young signal-caller admire Jones would perchance energize him.
Brady left the Patriots final offseason after 20 years with the group and signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The option labored out successfully for Brady, as the Bucs beat the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 31-9 in Beefy Bowl LV and Brady modified into named Beefy Bowl MVP.
The Patriots were left shopping for solutions, on the opposite hand, as they done correct 7-9, which modified into correct for simplest third put in the AFC East.
With Brady now not in the fold, the Pats failed to arrangement shut the AFC East and create the playoffs for the first time since 2008, and so that they done with a shedding file for the first time since 2000, which modified into Belichick’s first one year on the job.
Given how mighty worn quarterback Cam Newton struggled final season, it modified into certain coming into the draft that the Patriots crucial to get hold of a young quarterback to provide and in a roundabout arrangement snatch the reins.
Jones modified into believed to be under heavy consideration by the San Francisco 49ers with the third overall retract, but when the Niners opted for North Dakota Negate quarterback Trey Lance as another, it modified into obvious that the Pats would gain a shot at landing Jones.
The Chicago Bears traded up the total arrangement from 20th to 11th to spend their quarterback of the long escape in Justin Fields, while the Patriots sat at No. 15 and waited for Jones to drop to them.
There are positively some anticipate marks surrounding Jones, as he lacks the athleticism of the opposite high quarterbacks in the 2021 class and didn’t change into the stout-time starting quarterback at Alabama till his final season, but it’s now not easy to ignore his production.
In 2020, Jones finished 77.4 percent of his passes for 4,500 yards, 41 touchdowns and four interceptions, done third in the Heisman Trophy balloting and led Alabama to an undefeated file and nationwide championship arrangement shut.
Jones appears to be like related to Brady in lots of the way in that Brady wasn’t extremely touted for his athleticism coming out of Michigan, nor modified into he always the tip desire to be the starter while with the Wolverines.
Brady’s intelligence, if truth be told feel for the game and ought to to arrangement shut helped him change into arguably the splendid quarterback of all time, on the opposite hand, and Belichick is positively hopeful that Jones possesses among the same traits.
