Patriots QB Mac Jones says he wasn’t trying to injure Panthers’ Brian Burns, just trying to ‘make tackle’

The play came near the end of the first quarter in the Patriots’ 24-6 win, when Jones was hit hard and strip-sacked from the blind side.

That was pretty much it,” Jones said in his weekly interview on sports radio WEEI’s “Merloni and Fauria” program.

“Obviously, when you get up and see the ball is actually down the field a little bit more — it’s just a bang-bang play.

Immediately after the game, Panthers edge rusher Haason Reddick said he witnessed it while it was unfolding, adding: “At first it felt like he was trying trip or kick Burns.

“We don’t need that in this type of league if we all claim we are brothers.

“Like I said during the game, no one is out there besides the players.

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