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A day after the Patriots lost 33-14 to the Bears despite entering the matchup as a clear favorite, the discussion has unsurprisingly lingered on the team’s two quarterbacks.
Mac Jones started the game, but Bailey Zappe finished it. Neither played well enough to definitively make a winning case to be the consistent starter going forward.
On Tuesday, Bill Belichick fielded a series questions about Jones and Zappe during his weekly interview with WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show.”
Asked if it was accurate that the plan was for Jones to just play the three opening series of the game before getting pulled for Zappe, Belichick disagreed with the characterization.
“No, we were going to play both quarterbacks,” Belichick maintained. “And that’s what we did.”
Belichick’s statement in this case is helped by the fact that, as an example, NFL insider Adam Schefter reported beforehand that New England would likely play both quarterbacks in the game.
Show co-host Greg Hill had a follow-up question: What went into the decision to change to Zappe?
“We made the change.
