At least Mac Jones is honest.
After being taken with the 15th overall selection in the NFL Draft, the former Alabama quarterback was asked if he had ever been to Boston. The Alabama native explained that he had ... sort of.
"I think we left on a cruise and I actually, I almost like lost my foot because my foot got stuck, I had a Croc on in an escalator and it got stuck in the escalator, that's all I remember," Jones told the media on his late-night Zoom call. "But yeah, kind of crazy."
He added, "That was a while ago. I'll have to get you the exact date, but I was probably like 10. I just remember I literally almost lost my foot. But anyways…"
Anyways ... he will have plenty of time to make new memories that don't involve rubberized footwear and machinery.
Fortunately for Jones, he has had some former Alabama teammates who have given him an idea of the kind of place he will now be calling home.
"They have some guys up there, like you said, Damien [Harris] and Anfernee [Jennings] and everybody, so I've just been in contact with them," the quarterback explained. "I saw Anfernee down there working out at Alabama so we talked a little bit. And obviously me and Damien are pretty much best friends. He's helped me through the draft process and I've been telling him the whole time that I wanted to come to the Patriots and so I'm just happy that it happened. But at the end of the day they're going to be guys I look up to and guys that I want to be a great teammate for. So whatever they need to, I'm going to do my best to continue that relationship, but it just goes back to being a good guy and being a good friend however I can be like I did at Alabama."