{"id":389944,"date":"2022-11-30T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=389944"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:52:27","slug":"why-jack-jones-might-be-one-of-patriots-most-important-players-against-the-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-jack-jones-might-be-one-of-patriots-most-important-players-against-the-bills","title":{"rendered":"Why Jack Jones might be one of Patriots&#8217; most important players against the Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On paper, the Patriots clearly haven&#8217;t done enough to move the needle against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills defensively this season, especially in the secondary. Aside from getting Jonathan Jones, who didn&#8217;t play in any of the three contests against the Bills last season, drafting rookie cornerbacks Marcus Jones and Jack Jones and swapping out Dont&#8217;a Hightower for a bunch of depth pieces at linebacker, the personnel is largely the same now as when the Bills went two games without punting on the Patriots. For the latest on the Patriots, check out WEEI and Audacy&#8217;s &#8220;1st and Foxborough.&#8221; Stefon Diggs might not be in Justin Jefferson&#8217;s category &#8211; who is? &#8211; but he&#8217;s not far below it. He and Allen represent one of the best quarterback-receiver tandems in football, and not even Bill Belichick can take that away forever. Then, you throw in the big, physical Gabriel Davis, the ridiculously quick Isaiah McKenzie and a pass-catching weapon at tight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots don&#8217;t have a lot of new wrinkles they can throw at the Bills on Thursday, but rookie cornerback Jack Jones could help them make a key adjustment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}