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After being a top-10 offense for practically Tom Brady's entire run in New England, the Patriots have taken a step back in recent seasons and it's tough to not put a good bit of the blame on the coaching staff and team management. The front office just has not put the team in the position to succeed on a consistent basis. Some of that has been addressed this offseason with the Patriots moving on from the bizarre Matt Patricia offense they had in 2022 and going toward a more traditional offense coached by former Texans head coach Bill O'Brien. This switch alone can really only mean improvement, but there still seems to be a serious lack of care being put into the pass-catching weapons in this offense.
The team's leading receiver in each of the past three seasons, Jakobi Meyers, left this off-season and signed a fairly similar deal with the Raiders to the one the Patriots eventually gave to JuJu Smith-Schuster. This was particularly surprising because while Smith-Schuster has a longer history of success, he's historically played a similar role to the one that Meyers had already been successful with in-house for the Patriots. Additionally, the team brought in veterans like Kendrick Bourne and tight end Mike Gesicki, but there still seems to be a serious lack of explosive weapons for this roster. Without big-time playmakers, it's hard to imagine a world where Mac Jones is anything other than a replacement-level QB2 for fantasy purposes.
In fact, one could argue that Jones has been less than a QB2 thus far throughout his relatively short career. While he finished as the 22nd-highest-scoring quarterback, he actually was only the 36th-best QB in fantasy points per game. That's slightly better than Andy Dalton and Jacoby Brissett, and only a bit better than what his teammate Bailey Zappe delivered in his four games started in 2022.
With so many higher-upside options available in later rounds, it's just not worthwhile to draft Jones in anything other than 2QB and SuperFlex leagues.
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