The Face of the Franchise
“You sound like someone who has never played sports a day in your life.”
This is what I have been told throughout social media after posting a picture of Mac Jones crying in pain from what we now know is a high ankle sprain. Football is a physical sport. Every play consists of hitting and injuries. It happen every game, but I have never seen someone cry in pain like that for a sprained ankle….ever.
Joe Theisman, Alex Smith, Kevin Ware, Paul George, Gordon Hayward, Trey Lance these guys had some of the most horrific and most painful injuries in sports history and their faces show what an athlete’s face should be; stone cold. No pain. I’ll get through this.
How can Mac’s teammates rally around that grimace? If I was his teammate the first thing I would do is giggle. Then call him a bitch. You can not have respect for a guy like that. It’s football this stuff happens and this is how you’re dealing with it? Hobbling off the field and then crying into the locker room? It hurts yes, but wait till your alone in the locker room or locked away in the training room to let it out. Showing that on national TV is a meme and joke waiting to happen.
Now, I am not a doctor, glad we could square that away. But, listening to the endless coverage over Mac Jones’ high ankle sprain, we have learned he can treat it one of two ways. Rehab, which is a 6-8 week recovery time which wouldn’t see Mac coming back to week 12. Or what the Patriots want to happen, surgery. This could see him back in 3-5 weeks. This is Mac’s first major injury and doesn’t want surgery. Again, as a teammate you’re losing points here. As the face of the franchise why wouldn’t you go the route that gets you back on the field faster? The Patriots at 1-2 are still very much in it this season. Our season isn’t dead so why isn’t Mac being a leader here and doing what he needs to get back on the field quicker?
I am a Patriots fan, but I can realistically look at Mac Jones and tell you that this kid doesn’t have it. In the offseason if Bill has a chance to bring in an established, elite, former MVP to this team, I would happily move on from Mac because the experiment will not work out.
