Let’s look at the most recent talk on Mac Jones trades.

Boston — NFL is an acronym for the National Football League. It really might just as easily stand for Not For Long.

That one, I literally just thought of. Keep it from being stolen. Make sure to give me credit. Really smart of me, even if I do say so. Amazing stuff.

Not serious, but These days, the proverbial “three years from thinking Mac Jones was the franchise quarterback” comes to mind since it appears the Patriots will use their No. 3 overall pick to select the team’s next quarterback in New England. By doing this, the team would essentially be letting go of Jones after three seasons, under the direction of new head coach Jerod Mayo and new personnel director Eliot Wolf.

And it appears that the process has started in that sense based on the most recent information from the Indianapolis combine.

The Patriots’ goal is to choose a quarterback with the third overall pick, according to Jeff Howe and Chad Graff of The Athletic.

Later, the duo wrote that “a trade [of Mac Jones] is seen around the league as a mutually beneficial move.”

Regarding the possibility of a Jones trade, Mark Daniels, Chris Mason, and Karen Guregian of MassLive also provided coverage.

They said, “Moving on from Mac Jones will be the Patriots’ other item of business.” “A source claims that the Patriots are still planning to trade Jones this offseason. The first-round selection in 2021 will probably gain from a new beginning.”

Although so much has long been known, the fact that the newspaper included that piece of information implies that the Patriots are most likely thinking about moving forward. Releasing Trey Lance, the third overall pick in 2021, would not be unprecedented; Zach Wilson, the second overall pick in 2021, and Justin Fields, the eleventh overall pick, are also the subject of trade rumors this offseason.

Of the five QBs selected in the top 15 picks in 2021, only top overall pick Trevor Lawrence may remain with the team that drafted him in year four. (Sounds a lot like NOT FOR LONG if you ask me.)

After Jones failed to improve under Bill O’Brien a year after the disastrous Matt Patricia-Joe Judge experiment, a change of scenery could help him restart his career. And another team would likely be willing to cough up a fifth-round pick or something to that effect in order to give Jones a shot, likely as a backup.

Remember, just two offseasons ago, Jones was a (replacement) Pro Bowler and NFL Top 100 player doing the Griddy and making the region believe he might be the quarterback for the next decade. Now, he seems destined to play somewhere else.