“I think it just goes back to really with pressure, you just got to focus on doing what you’re supposed to do, and people who have jobs in high-pressure situations, that’s what they do,” Jones said. He’s planning to lean on the “do your job” mantra during Sunday’s matchup. It’s just you’re getting a chance to compete in a primetime game, and it just kind of is what it is.”Īs a former Alabama quarterback, Jones has played in high-leverage situations before. “ It’s not like one person versus one person, so I think that a lot of it is 11 on 11, and that’s what goes into it, and that’s how they’re going to look at it,” Jones said Wednesday, via Jake Levin of. And while there’s some inherent pressure facing the greatest quarterback of all time when he returns to the place where he played for two decades, Jones downplayed that factor when speaking to the media this week. Rookie Mac Jones is coming off the roughest start of his young career, throwing three interceptions in the Patriots’ Week Three loss to the Saints. But he won’t be the only quarterback on the field Sunday night. Tom Brady‘s return to New England is deservedly the top story across the NFL this week.