New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo confirms Jacoby Brissett at quarterback.
“Everything is at all times beneath analysis,” Mayo stated Friday morning, a day after Brissett was pulled. a 24-3 loss to the New York Jets in favor of first-round draft decide Drake Maye. “Let’s be clear: Jacoby remains to be our beginning quarterback till I say he is not.”
Brissett was hit, harassed and pissed off all evening by the New York Jets protection earlier than Maye got here in for his NFL debut. Afterward, Mayo stated “I do not know” who can be beneath middle for New England (1-2) sooner or later.
“We discuss each single week about you competing for a job,” Mayo stated after the sport. “We’ll get collectively as a training employees and see the place it goes.”
About 12 hours later, Mayo stated he would proceed to help the 31-year-old veteran.
“Right now, I’d say it is nonetheless established order,” the coach stated on a name with reporters. “I’ve stated it earlier than: Jacoby remains to be our beginning quarterback and now we have to be able to help him. There’s 11 guys on the market on offense, so everyone. So to reply your query, it is being evaluated proper now.”
Even if he have been to play towards the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 29, Brissett would nonetheless be a backup for Maye, who was chosen third general within the draft.
“I do not make personnel choices,” Brissett stated. “My job is to go on the market and prepare to play.”
When requested what he considered Mayo saying he wasn’t positive he wished to vary quarterbacks, Brissett declined to gas any hypothesis.
“I’m not going to overreact to one thing I did not hear,” she stated. “He informed me he was coming in. I’m not going to argue.”
Brissett accomplished 12 of 18 passes for simply 98 yards and was tackled 5 occasions earlier than being pulled with 4:24 left within the sport.
“I’m an enormous man. I can take it,” Brissett stated of all of the hits he is taken. “I at all times stand up. Finding methods to make performs, that is what it comes all the way down to. That’s soccer. You gotta get hit. You do not be part of this sport to not get hit.”
Maye got here in and drove the Patriots offense down the sector on their closing drive. The former North Carolina star went 4-of-8 for 22 yards and was tackled twice, the final one ending the sport.
“I believed it was alternative for him to get on the market with (the first-team offense) and put some performs collectively,” Mayo stated. “We’ll take a look at the footage and consider.”
Another facet Mayo should think about is the well being of the Patriots’ compromised offensive line.
Jets beat Patriots, 24-3, led by 2 TDs by Aaron Rodgers
Starting left sort out Vederian Lowe (knee) and left guard Sidy Sow (ankle) didn’t play after each have been dominated out earlier within the week. Center David Andrews (hip) and proper sort out Mike Onwenu (wrist) performed after being listed as questionable.
Against the Jets, left sort out Caedan Wallace, beginning for Lowe, and left guard Michael Jordan, beginning for Sow, didn’t end the sport after struggling accidents within the fourth quarter.
“I believed the offensive line struggled at the moment,” Mayo stated. “There have been occasions early within the sport the place the pockets regarded fairly clear. As the sport went on, like final week (towards Seattle), they began to crumble so far as safety goes.”
New England received mauled by New York’s protection, after which Aaron Rodgers tore the Patriots aside with lengthy drives all evening lengthy.
New York completed with 400 yards to New England’s 139 and had 27 first downs to the Patriots’ 11.
“It was terrible. It was terrible in each facet,” Andrews stated. “We did not play the best way we wished to play. They dictated what we wished to do. Hats off to them. They had plan they usually performed lots higher than us tonight.”
