![]() ![]() ![]() “We drove the ball pretty well, just didn’t get it in. “Yeah, biggest thing is just we’re close,” he said. To head to the locker room where he would sit by his stall, a towel draped over his head, before finally hitting the showers. To swallow the disappointment of the Patriots’ 0-2 start, matching the franchise’s worst in 22 years. There was nothing left to do but ponder the back-to-back losses to his two former Alabama teammates who seem to be racing ahead in their NFL careers the Eagles lost in the Super Bowl last year and the Dolphins are favored to make their second straight playoff appearance. Jones was left with nothing to do but take one last dejected walk to his sideline and wait out Tua Tagovailoa’s two kneel-down plays to run out the clock, just as he’d waited out Jalen Hurts’s victory-formation kneel-down in Week 1. ![]() He came close the last gasp ended with the wacky play where Mike Gesicki caught Jones’s fourth-down 3-yard pass, realized he was a yard short of the sticks, and flipped the ball to guard Cole Strange, who barreled forward for an apparent first down only to have the conversion reversed upon review. ![]()
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