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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots rookie quarterback Mac Jones mentioned he was not making an attempt to injure Carolina Panthers defensive finish Brian Burns on a engage in Sunday that 1 of Burns’ teammates referred to as “completely dirty.”
The play arrived close to the end of the initially quarter in the Patriots’ 24-6 get, when Jones was hit difficult and strip-sacked from the blind facet. He then held Burns’ correct ankle as Panthers linebacker Frankie Luvu recovered the fumble farther down the industry.
Right after the perform, Burns limped off the area, but he later returned to the sport just before departing a 2nd time in the fourth quarter.
“Right after I received strike really challenging, I failed to genuinely know what was heading on. I assumed he experienced the ball. It can be my work to consider to make the deal with. That was fairly significantly it,” Jones stated in his weekly job interview on sporting activities radio WEEI’s “Merloni and Fauria” plan.
“Definitely, when you get up and see the ball is basically down the discipline a small bit more — it’s just a bang-bang play. I failed to suggest to hurt anyone or something like that. I was just making an attempt to tackle him and make the play, since I failed to really know what was heading on.”
No penalty was identified as on the perform.
Straight away just after the video game, Panthers edge rusher Haason Reddick explained he witnessed it while it was unfolding, including: “At very first it felt like he was trying vacation or kick Burns. And the up coming point you know I noticed him tugging on Burns’ ankle. I imagined it was wholly filthy. Hopefully, it’s anything the league addresses.”
The NFL will assessment the enjoy, as it does every engage in following game titles, and Jones could be matter to a fine beneath the league regulations regarding participant accountability.
Panthers linebacker Shaq Thompson, like Reddick, will be observing the NFL’s response.
“That was some B.S. on Mac Jones’ component, and with any luck , they great him or something like that,” Thompson claimed. “We will not need to have that in this kind of league if we all claim we are brothers. We don’t want that to test to hurt another participant.”
In his radio job interview Monday, Jones was asked how it feels to have the Panthers stating they want to see him fined.
“Like I stated for the duration of the sport, no one is out there other than the players. I just assumed that is what transpired and I had to make the tackle,” Jones stated on WEEI. “So I did what I did in authentic time, and it is what it is.”
ESPN’s David Newton contributed to this report.
