Mac Jones is 13 years younger than Brian Hoyer and may be closer in age to Hoyer's son, but that doesn't mean the two aren't close and have a special relationship.
"I think it's really amazing," Jones said Wednesday. "Brian's been a really close friend of mine since I've gotten here, and I know he's older than me, and [I] might be closer in age to his son, Garrett, but he's still a really good mentor. He just does a great job every week. He's super supportive of me and trying to help me in any way he can, and, you know, he's hard on me sometimes, which is good, so he holds me to a high standard, and then he also has fun and enjoys the game, so he's been around for a long time.
"I think all the quarterbacks in our room have done that, and Brian is just a great example of a great team leader and a great team player, and, you know, if he ever needs to get in there, I know he's going to do a great job. He's always ready, and I'm just happy to be able to learn from him and just be in the same room as him."
This is the 36-year-old's third stint in New England, so he knows the playbook as well as anyone.
Earlier in the week, Bill Belichick praised Hoyer for all that he does.
"He’s been in the system longer than anybody else as a player and knows the offense extremely well," he said. "It’s one thing, as a coach, to coach the players and all that, but in the end, it’s always helpful to have somebody who has actually played it be able to also talk about it because, as a player, you get told a lot of things, and as an experienced player, you can sometimes help the younger players with understanding what’s really important and what to put at the top of the list.
"With players like Brian or Jerod [Mayo] and Troy [Brown] on the coaching staff, Billy Yates, those guys have all played it, and it’s different to actually play it than it is to coach it, and both are important, but they all do a good job of that. Brian, in particular, I think has been extremely good with Garrett [Gilbert], Jarrett [Stidham], and Mac [Jones] on giving coaching points on either plays, situations, cadence, you name it, and kind of to help move the important stuff up to the top. Not that everything isn’t important, but there are some things you’ve really got to take care of first, and he’s done a nice job of that."
