FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo mentioned Friday that Jacoby Brissett stays the workforce’s beginning quarterback, praising his toughness regardless of a flurry of safety breakdowns in Thursday’s 24-3 loss to the New York Jets.
Mayo’s declaration got here a day after he inserted rookie Drake Maye, the No. 3 total decide within the draft, into the sport late within the fourth quarter so he might expertise his first regular-season motion.
“Jacoby is our quarterback till I say he isn’t the quarterback,” Mayo mentioned Friday morning. “I believed he confirmed plenty of toughness, plenty of grit.”
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Brissett, who completed 12-of-18 for 98 yards, was sacked 5 occasions and in-game statisticians charted that he was hit 15 occasions because the Jets turned to a blitz-heavy method to use the Patriots’ short-handed offensive line. Within the first three video games, he’s 42-of-69 for 368 yards with one landing and no interceptions. The Patriots are 1-2.
Instantly after the sport Thursday, Mayo shared his teaching philosophy that each participant is at all times competing for his job, and he mentioned he deliberate to fulfill with the teaching workers to debate the workforce’s quarterback plans.
That features offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, who instructed reporters Friday that he believes Maye will profit extra from remaining the backup to Brissett at the moment.
“I nonetheless assume it is by watching. I feel there’s lots to be realized but, and that is the place I am going to stand on that,” Van Pelt mentioned, including that he is inspired about Maye’s future. “Jacoby is our starter, like Coach mentioned, till that modifications, I feel we obtained to do every thing we are able to to get the starter able to win a sport on [Sept. 29 in San Francisco].”
In his one drive, Maye was 4-of-8 for 22 yards and he added two rushes for 12 yards. The drive started on the Patriots’ 42-yard line and ended with a sack after advancing to the Jets’ 7-yard line.
“Coming off the bench at the moment is at all times powerful, it doesn’t matter what place, however particularly the quarterback place and I believed he dealt with himself properly and tried to place a drive collectively,” Mayo mentioned, noting Maye’s athleticism and skill to make each throw. “It is one thing to construct off.”
In apply, the Patriots have been giving Maye 30% of the first-team repetitions, in keeping with Mayo. The plan is to stay with that method.
“Proper now, I would say it is nonetheless established order. I mentioned it earlier — Jacoby remains to be our beginning quarterback and now we have to be able to assist him, 11 guys on the market on offense. It is everybody,” Mayo mentioned.
