FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Mac Jones decisively beat out Cam Newton for the New England Patriots' starting quarterback job. In doing so, he now has the chance to rewrite the narrative that Alabama Crimson Tide quarterbacks haven't measured up in the NFL since the days of Bart Starr, Joe Namath and Ken Stabler, who have five Super Bowl championships between them.
"Two years ago, Alabama hadn't had much success at quarterback since the early days of the merger and early parts of the NFL, and now you have three former Alabama starters [who could make an impact] this year," said Greg McElroy, a former Alabama quarterback and the New York Jets' 2011 seventh-round draft pick who is now an ESPN college football analyst.