Adam Jones doesn’t know when to quit. The former NFL cornerback made a fool of himself on “The Pat McAfee Show” this week, accusing the New Orleans Saints of being, among other things, the worst pass defense in the NFL (they ranked second-best in yards per game, to be clear). And Saints fans have been letting him have it on social media.
And the noise is getting to him. Jones redoubled his efforts to ignore the facts and the stats from last season to rip on the Saints, sharing a video from his official Twitter account in which he failed to accurately read the final score and identify the winner from several games in 2022.
“Let’s just look at this, y’all allowed 27 points against the Falcons, who was a subpar team,” Jones began, misreading the score from the Saints’ season-opening 27-26 win in Atlanta. He continued down the list, continuing to get scores wrong: “The Seahawks, you allowed 39 points. The Bengals, you allowed 30 points. To Arizona, you allowed 42 points. Let’s keep going, since you want to talk (expletive) about what I’m talking about.”
The Saints were the team that scored 39 points in their 39-32 win over Seattle. 12 of the Cardinals’ points in that game were scored on defensive interception returns, not their offense. Cincinnati averaged 26 points per game and was a Super Bowl contender who made it to the AFC title game. What does he think that proves?
“Y’all beat the Raiders, good, the whole organization got (expletive) fired,” Jones scoffed, apparently confusing the organizational turnover in Las Vegas from 2022 as something that happened after that game.
Former players can offer insight that no one else is positioned to match when it comes to talking about the NFL. But that isn’t what Jones is doing here. He’s just wrong and loud and misinforming fans. It’s a shame because someone with his platform could do a lot better than this. Maybe he’ll get something right next time.
