Just listen a bit more closely.
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Some words sound very similar. Or in this case, names, like Matt and Mac.
NFL fans have spent the last few weeks wondering who "Matt Jones" is. Except, he's not the San Francisco 49ers quarterback.
Mac Jones is.
Enunciation can just be tricky sometimes.
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Who is Matt Jones?
Matt Jones is not the San Francisco 49ers' quarterback.
That's just a slightly misheard pronunciation of the guy actually playing QB for San Francisco, who is Mac Jones.
Yeah, that's Mac Jones the former first-round pick by the .
Mac's full name is Michael McCorkle Jones.
He spent last season with the before joining the 49ers to back up Purdy this season. Purdy is out with a toe injury.
There is no Matt Jones involved here. It just sounds a heck of a lot like Mac Jones.
There was a Matt Jones once, a 2005 first-round pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
But the guy playing quarterback for the 49ers on Sunday Night Football in Week 7 is Mac Jones.
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