Five years ago, quarterback Mac Jones played for Nick Saban at Alabama. The day after the most significant victory of Jones’s career, Saban expressed pleasure at the development — and took a shot of sorts at his supposedly good friend, Bill Belichick.

“I’m so happy for Mac,” Saban said on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show , via Mike Rodak of 247Sports.com. “I think Mac was one of those guys who was in bad situations in New England relative to coaching and all that stuff, and who was the offensive coordinator, and how did he get developed when he came into the league.”

Calling it a bad situation is an understatement. After Jones made the Pro Bowl in 2021 with Josh McDaniels as his offensive coordinator, Belichick decided to put career defensive coach Matt Patricia in charge of the offense.

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