Bill Belichick mum on potential QB change after latest Patriots loss
Mac Jones’ run as Patriots starting quarterback reached a new low on Sunday, with a dismal late interception helping doom New England to a 10-6 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Germany.
It was telling when Jones was benched for backup Bailey Zappe with under two minutes left and the game still up for grabs, but speaking to WEEI’s The Greg Hill Show on Monday morning, Bill Belichick said they haven’t made a choice on who will lead the Patriots out of the bye week.
“I don’t know, we haven’t really talked about that,” Belichick said. “We’re just getting back from Germany and trying to get reorganized here.”
Belichick said he felt they needed to make a change after the Jones interception, though he noted that the decision to make a switch wasn’t about one play but how the game had gone as a whole. Zappe’s attempt at a two-minute drill also ended poorly, with the reserve throwing a game-ending interception with 36 seconds remaining, but Belichick said he’d seen enough in practice to believe Zappe could deliver.
“Yeah, we worked the two minute drill, he’s gotten a lot of opportunities on it and he’s actually done very well with it,” Belichick said.
With neither quarterback able to come through, the Patriots return from Germany facing a 2-8 record and a lot of hard questions. Belichick said they’d put everything they had into the Germany trip and now plan to use the bye week to take stock of where they are as a team.
“We’ll take a good look at that this week and figure that out,” Belichick said.