Is Mac Jones a dirty player? Not in the eyes of fellow New England Patriots captain Matthew Slater.
But Slater seemed to acknowledge that some of Jones’ actions — like the low block on Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Eli Apple that reportedly got him fined $11,139 — could earn the young quarterback that undesirable reputation.
“I don’t see it as such in terms of him being a dirty player,” the Patriots special teams ace said Tuesday in a video conference. “That’s not the person I know. That’s not the young man that I’ve gotten a chance to spend time around the last couple of years.