Devin McCourty: Mac Jones ‘has to cease’ placing himself in conditions that make him look soiled

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“I will not name Mac a grimy participant as a result of I do know him personally and I believe he is an excellent dude, he is an excellent child. However, I’ll say that he has to cease being round these incidents. “

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Sauce Gardner grew to become the newest in a sequence of gamers to accuse Mac Jones of constructing soiled performs on the soccer subject on Sunday.

He mentioned that Jones deliberately hit him within the groin. Jones denied the accusation.

Devin McCourty, who was teammates with Jones on the Patriots for a number of seasons, commented on the state of affairs throughout an look on WEEI’s Greg Hill Show.

“I gained’t name Mac a grimy participant as a result of I do know him personally and I believe he’s an excellent dude, he’s an excellent child. However, I’ll say that he has to cease being round these incidents.

“It gained’t matter what any present teammate says, former teammate says,” McCourty continued. “It’s attending to the purpose the place, ‘is it intentional? Is it on goal?’ It’s not going to matter as a result of when you’re concerned in too many of those conditions it’s what it’s.”

Final yr, throughout his first recreation again from harm in opposition to the Bears, Jones made a play that led Chicago defensive again Jaquan Brisker to accuse Jones of deliberately kicking him within the groin. On Christmas Eve of final yr, a low block from Jones on Cincinnati’s Eli Apple led to a advantageous from the NFL. Earlier in Jones’s profession, Carolina linebacker Brian Burns mentioned that Jones twisted his ankle.

“You may’t come again and say, ‘no, that is what [I] meant to do]. There are lots of gamers which have performed this recreation they usually’re not concerned in any of this stuff. I believe he must do a greater job of discovering his manner out of no matter it’s you need to name it … all of those various things, I believe for anyone you possibly can’t hold defending the identical issues.”

Jones declined to remark additional on the Gardner incident when requested about it on Wednesday.

“Simply actually targeted on the Cowboys and making an attempt to arrange for an excellent protection,” Jones mentioned. “That’s my focus, making an attempt to manage the controllables.”