Mac Jones proved he can be a quality problem-solver at the NFL level

Perry: Mac proved he can be a quality problem-solver in the NFL originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

Hunter! Hunter! Hunter!

Mac Jones was into the fourth quarter of his first meaningful professional football game, the new starting quarterback of one of the most successful franchises in NFL history. But he sounded like a tyke dying to tell his big brother a juicy secret.

In a way, he was both.

The Patriots rookie waited for a shotgun snap on third-and-five Sunday when the Dolphins crowded the line of scrimmage with seven defenders. There were four Miami defensive backs in the secondary sagging well off their man-to-man assignments, none of them hovering in the middle of the field.

Jones had…