We've Identified the Cause of Mac Jones' Struggles: He Wasn't Allowed to Demonstrate His Rapper Skills in NE

When the Bills dealt Stefon Diggs to the Texans, Patriots fans were more or less universal in our reaction. 

First, we were glad to see Diggs out of the division and see this as yet another step back for a Buffalo team whose dynasty is over before it ever began:

Next, it yet another reminder that other teams are out there making bold moves to add talent to already talented rosters. While the Patriots continue to sort of maintain the status quo on the worst offense in the league last year. 

But those are the immediate concerns. In broader picture sense, we can't help but notice how this trade by Houston contrasts how the Patriots went so horribly, horribly wrong these last couple of seasons. The Texans are surrounding their promising second year franchise quarterback with that Justice League of skill position players. The Pats gave Mac Jones Devante Parker, Nelson Agholor, and Tyquan Thornton, then told him to report to Joe Judge as his rookie QB coach and execute an offense that Matt Patricia was learning on the fly. 

Which is to say, the few of us who still remember those heady days when Jones was a symbol of optimism for a bright future. A beacon of hope who would lead us back to a rough approximation our former glory. Instead of embodiment of our failure, which he became before they shipped him to Jacksonville for a Dunks gift card. 

But now that Jones is with the Jaguars, he might have put his finger directly on what caused things to go so horribly, horribly wrong. And it has less to do with athletic- and coaching talent, and everything to do with musical ability. He may have failed because in Foxboro, he wasn't allowed to be himself. Which is a rapper:

Quarterback. National champion. Pro Bowler. Child model:

And now we find out, frustrated Hip Hop artist who was forced to keep his talents to himself in New England. Forced by the oppressive Bill Belichick regime to hide his light under a bushel. Which is doubly strange since Mr. Kraft is as much a part of fabric of the Hip Hop community as Snoop, Jay-Z or P. Diddy. (Why did it get so awkward in here? Did I say something wrong?) I mean, it's possible Belichick heard his quarterback rap and asked him not to because he's terrible at it. The way you might try to spare a friend the humiliation of taking the karaoke mic for their own good. Regardless, it seems a coach with a propensity for controlling all the details of his organization felt having his quarterback doing Meek Mill or whomever was not in the best interests of his football team. For whatever reason. 

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So let this be a lesson to Jerod Mayo. Whether the Pats end up with Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye, the important thing it to let them be them. Free to express who they are as individuals and as musical artists. If his predecessor had done so, perhaps we'd be talking about McCorkle as a future MVP instead of as Trevor Lawrence's backup. Lesson learned.