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“It’s all on me,” Smith-Schuster stated. “He put the ball in an excellent place. I’ve simply received to get the catch and safe it.”
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Watch: JuJu Smith-Schuster drops Mac Jones cross that results in game-sealing interception
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FOXBOROUGH – JuJu Smith-Schuster summed up what occurred on the finish of the Patriots’ last drive in a succinct method.
Mac Jones threw a catchable ball, and Smith-Schuster dropped it. The ball bounced into Jartavius Martin’s palms for an interception, which gave Washington the ball again.
“Center of the sphere was open,” Smith-Schuster stated of the drop. “Ran an in lower. It was an excellent ball, it went via my palms. Interception. Recreation over.”
The Commanders ran out the clock and secured a 20-17 win at Gillette Stadium Sunday afternoon.
Smith-Schuster stated the blame for the play belongs to him. New England wanted a area objective to tie the sport. A landing would have received it. The turnover sealed the loss.
“It’s all on me,” Smith-Schuster stated. “He put the ball in an excellent place. I’ve simply received to get the catch and safe it. Now we’re in field-goal vary, and clearly, I didn’t try this. Fell quick.”
After the sport, Jones famous that Smith-Schuster made a catch earlier within the drive on fourth-and-4 that prolonged the drive.
“JuJu made an ideal play the play earlier than, or we wouldn’t even be in that state of affairs. I simply went via my reads and fired it in there,” Jones stated. “It was only a bang-bang play. Clearly, whenever you lose the sport, it’s irritating. It’s not on one individual or one participant in any respect. Like I stated, JuJu made some nice performs. We’re all on this collectively. I can throw a greater ball and shield him just a little bit extra and all that stuff.”
Smith-Schuster completed the sport with six catches for 51 yards. He didn’t begin the sport, even with Kendrick Bourne out for the season and DeVante Parker out with a head harm. Jalen Reagor and Demario Douglas received the beginning for New England at receiver.
“I’m not a man who’s going to make excuses for taking part in time or something like that,” Smith-Schuster stated. “I simply know when my time comes, I attempt to make the perfect of my alternatives. Like at present, I didn’t play till the in the direction of finish of the sport, going out and in. It’s powerful, man. This can be a powerful job since you put a lot into all of it week and it might probably all be passed by one play.”
4 of New England’s seven losses, together with Sunday’s end result, have been by a landing or much less.
“It’s very irritating, week after week, drive after drive,” Smith-Schuster stated. “It will get irritating. On the identical time, you simply have to stay in it.”
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