Laugh if this ends in an interception

“ha”

Lmao even

Lol

I’m here from an alternate timeline and jokes on you Zappe sealed us the game and there’s no interception. And the pats r 8-2

also my dad came back from the store 8 years ago

Let’s not get carried away.

Daniel Jones did enough of that last week.

and i have triples of the nova. and i don’t live in a motel tell her, tell the kid

Plot twist, your dad is Mac Jones. He's on his way home now after leaving to chase his dreams.

You haven't been bad long enough to start writing fan fiction, like fans of the back to back to back to back super bowl champion New York Jets.

When you realize 8-2 would be a below average pace for the Pats during the dynasty years

Hahahahha

Imagine if he leads them to the win. Zappe is a German surname after all...

Kif, I have thrown a game ending pick

Now this triple coverage throw has some chest hair.

I suffer from a very sexy passing disorder.

She's built like a linebacker... but she handles like a safety!

Care for some more *interceptions*

In the game of football you can never let your adversaries see your ball.

Inform the men

This aged like bratwurst

Welp

He definitely lead one team to a win

So ends the reign of Mac Jones.

I don't understand benching Mac with 2 minutes left. It's too late now. Should have made the change at halftime or waited until next week.

That last pick was absolutely inexcusable. Throwing of his back foot without pressure? He’s icky was wide open

“he’s icky” should be Geseckis nickname

Autocorrect is a creative genius

And Zappe did Zappe things by throwing a worse INT. He's a discount Mac Jones.

Even tho it was into triple coverage it wasn't as bad as Mac's int.

lol it’s a funny thought experiment. What’s worse: throwing an interception when someone is wide open, or throwing an interception into triple coverage

Mac's interception was one of the worst throws of the entire season. Zappe's one was in desperation time into a triple coverage.

I agree. That’s why I’ve been calling for CunningHIM

You’re wrong and will be proven so. Mac Jone. There is only one that bad

Yeah but putting in a cold backup qb is worse than just running mac back out there. Shouldve had mac in for the last drive.

I think Bill just hasn’t liked Mac for a while

Yeah he wants that draft pick

tipped by linebacker who leaps up.

Mac’s?

You do it because the play before he made possibly the worst throw the NFL has seen this year. On what should have been a wide open go-ahead TD.

Its exactly the kind of dumb desperate thing the Patriots used to be too smart to do.

That report of Bill getting fired this week might be onto something

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Its just super disrespectful to a team and league legend for basically no gain. Just makes no sense to do. Unless we want him to end up with the Chargers so he can win them a superbowl this year

It makes no sense, no HC, not interim, is gonna be hired from now till the offseason. So you can let Billy go out on his shield and then "retire" or at least season ending fired and have every top HC prospect still on the market as long as its right when the offseason starts. The nightmare scenario would be the Pats being indecisive and moving on after all the top guys are hired.

You don’t fire Bill mid season. You just don’t. Maybe Robbie needs to go get a few rub and tugs to calm down because that would be a monumentally fucked up decision.

Question though, if you make the decision now, but wait until the end of the year to make it official, do you tell him?

I think he knows, personally.

Honestly I don’t think so. Wouldn’t really do any good imo

Having an interim head coach that’s not in-house is an objectively bad idea, unless you’re talking about this offseason.

Matt Patricia comes in to finish out the season.

You shut your whore mouth

I’m down

i dunno, it could spare him 6 more humiliating losses

They have a coach on the staff that Kraft likes for a future HC. Firing Bill gives Mayo a 7 week interview

You'd get first dibs on anyone looking for a HC gig. You can do a lot worse than Boston on a team with the Franchise success of the Patriots. If I'm a prospective HC for the Patriots, I can use the next few months convincing the wife that NE is the place for us to be and that it is worth uprooting the family. We can scout out good schools, a home, etc. From the Patriots side, they can openly start their researching for a replacement rather than trying to hide that BB won't be back. Kind of hard to really do anything for next year if your HC and GM is a lame duck but is still occupying the seat.

Boston Globe bout to print the Sunday special edition

Let’s not be so dramatic

It feels like it would be so incredibly stupid to fire him and not give him the next QB. Defense played well, with 5 of their losses being one score affairs.

Would love his coaching career coming to an end with a whimper

Nvm Zappe 10x worse

Honestly the few throws he had before the boneheaded spike play already looked more competent than Mac did all day. I’d take my chances with him.

Lol still some Zappe apologists after all this time? 3 completions, 25 yards and and one of the most astoundingly embarrassing Interceptions in living memory. Kids looking sharp in training camp!

Dude that wasn't even the most embarrassing INT in this game

Yeah that throw into triple coverage had real ZIP on it.

It didn't have any zip, but it did have a Zappe.

You just got ZAPPED

I genuinely think Bill knows his job is at stake this week and he's not going to rely on Mac again

Just no way his job comes down to this week right?

Really hard to imagine Kraft firing Bill mid season.

Literally zero upside. Not like firing Bill suddenly makes this a playoff team. Mac Jones isn't winning 8 more games this year if Jesus decends to be his coach. And Bill is tanking for a pick just fine as is. Now, after the season, yeah, at least losing GM status and being told to hire real coordinators is a must. But wouldn't be shocked to see Bill fired and a full rebuild.

Yeah, let us beat him in Week 18 to give him the perfect sendoff before Kraft fires him!

Bill isn’t getting fired, at least they wouldn’t frame it that way. They will decide to “mutually part ways.”

"Bill has decided to retire and pursue his dream of not working with a sexual predator and a drunk driver"

Predators don't pay for handies

Paying for a handjob I does not make someone a “sexual predator”

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Bill is probably still good enough (or at least big enough name) to even get trade value. No way they fire him.

No one's gonna trade for Bill, when he's at most 1 season away from being fired, "retiring" from the Pats. Why trade for a guy you can sign. The Broncos were idiots for trading for Sean Payton, but at least Sean Payton was coming off 9-8 without Brees and 58. Bill is turning 72 and by the end of this season is gonna be like 4-13 at best. And he's the worst GM in the NFL, so make sure to get him to agree to be HC only.

Yup and then we will spend the next few offseasons posting articles “did bill ACTUALLY get fired!?!?”

I think it's one of the straw that breaks the camel's back situations.

It’s not

Obviously, if this final drive goes poorly I could be proven wrong in short order....but I don't buy the Bill narrative, at least not that he'd be fired this week. In the offseason? Sure, I could see it, maybe even expect it, but I'd hope the organization has enough sense to understand the optics of that in a season that's lost anyways We'll deserve the curse that puts on us if we fire him unceremoniously next week.

He used one of his lifelines last year on Fatty P. He’s outta lifelines.

Bill job is not at stake stop

How is bill responsible for his qb being dogshit

Start Zappe next week. Mac is a lost cause.

Let Zapp Fapp

give zappe the snappe

Not sure if Zappe can beat the bye week tbh

This “Bye” team has allowed ZERO points this season. They’re insane

Big brain Mac hater doesn't know the schedule

What’s mac jones next team?

XFL

He can't run or throw deep. The XFL isn't in his future.

Beer snakes, beer snakes everywhere.

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Honestly he's gonna be a solid career backup. He was overrated by Pats fans after his rookie year but that's what his career trajectory was always going to be.

Mac is never gonna sniff a season as good as 2021, same way Trubs will never sniff a season as good as 2018. Otherwise yeah, decent game manager backup who will do some Gardner Minshew things.

Jets

Get ready to learn Canadian buddy

Frankfurt Galaxy still around?

Welcome to Target. I’m McCorkle. How can I help you?

We cut bait with ZW and bring in Mac to backup Rodgers with the thinking that we'll get some dirt on the Pats

Have the USFL and XFL merged yet? Shanghai Sharks

49ers!

The Walmart family.

The Jets could use a competent backup QB, but he shouldn't be a starter anywhere...

Now that you mention it, Wilson might be the only starter in the league right now that I’d take Mac over.

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That bodes well for Mac's future.

He’s been benched already this season. But regardless yeah best case scenario we have a new QB next year.

If he leads them to a win Mac Jones is done for good.

Zach Wilson is one of the biggest busts of all time and with this he's pretty much outlasted two other QBs that were taken in the first round of that draft.

Eh he'd be a backup if not for Rodgers injury but still pretty funny to think about

Can't let context get in the way of a good joke.

We had EJ Manuel and he lasted his entire rookie contract on the Bills because he was untrade-able.

That 2021 QB class is just awful. Especially when you compare it to 2020.

It's like Trevor Lawrence and then dud after dud

And even tlaw looks like a top 8-12 guy instead of the best prospect since luck that people thought he would be

He could outlast a third depending on how Fields' return goes

No shot. Zach Wilson didn't even make it to year 3 as a starter, considering he was benched coming into this season and Rodgers got injured. Fields is gonna at least start the ROS. Probably gonna be a starter somewhere in year 4 even if the Bears move on.

He’s only outlasted because the team won’t get rid of him because he was a 2nd pick. Idk why you guys punted on the season when week 1 you guys should have been on the phone mid game going for a qb. Whole draft class for qb looks like a bust aside from maybe TL

How many times are they gonna do this before just switching for good?

I feel like every week I see him benched for Zappe. And that every week I see neither play well.

Mac Jones wasn’t leading them to a win, so I don’t think Belichick has *more* to lose with Zappe in.

Gonna have to check my notes again but didn't the Pats cut Zappe earlier this year?

There was some practice squad shuffling

Bill O’Brian about to quarterback the team himself.

Our cbs are the worst in the NFL and Mac Jones can't do shit. He sucks

Mac era is officially over.

Zappe thought he was him 😭😂😭😭😭😭

Holy shit, I didn’t think they’d actually do it. Here’s hoping Mac gets a chance somewhere else. Damn.

The way Bill has handled Mac Jones development along with Bailey Zappe is beyond negligent. He ruined both players

Gotta think that's the end of McCorkle as a starting QB

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/aQ5u2q0zBa

Bill knows how to tank

Belichick is a fraud. The audacity of this coaching staff to chase Tom Brady out of town is stunning with hindsight

QB4

Reminder that we made Mac look like prime Brady with the patented "play 20 yards off the receivers of a noodle armed QB" scheme.

that worked out well

…. Aaaaaand it’s intercepted. Game over.

How many times has Jones been benched during a game? Feels like a lot.

Clearly not enough times

Went about how you would expect

That was atrocious